What's better, the book or the movie? Can the movie ever be as good as the book? The debate is an age-old one, probably existing since the very first screenplay was derived from a popular work, because when we fall in love with books we typically fall hard.
Today in books and publishing: The e-book pricing courage of the publishing industry, William Shakespeare turns 448, and John Irving explains why he's not a Hemingway fan.
Today in books and publishing: A possible settlement between some of the Big Six publishers and the Department of Justice, Pottermore sold an estimated $1.5 million in e-books in its first three days, and a depressing look at an Amazon fulfillment center.
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Today in publishing: Joseph Heller was of two different minds about his time in the service, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will not let Roland Emmerich's aggression go unchecked, and the co-author of the Left Behind series gets a rich new contract.
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography tops the digital and print sales charts, JRR Tolkien's newly-unearthed illustrations for The Hobbit will be seen for the first time, and Roland Emmerich's new Shakespeare authorship thriller gets fact-checked.
Plus: Moby channels his inner cosmonaut for his very blue new video
Plus: tough questions about William Shakespeare's drug history
On Obama's prudence, the Syrian people, and Shakespeare's appeal in China
An anthropologist is trying to exhume the Bard's body to test for pot
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