New Delhi: Reado, a website of one of India's biggest audio books company, Think Ink Media Inc, was launched at the World Book Fair 2012 with 100-plus leading book titles which have been converted into downloadable audio books. An offshoot of Eagle Home Entertainment, Reado retails its audio books from over 200 stores across India which includes online retailing through Flipkart.com and leading books stores like Crossword, Landmark, Reliance Time...
12:21 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Emerging writer Ashwin Sanghi has won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010 in the popular fiction category for 'Chanakya's Chant'. The award, decided by readers' votes online, went to the contemporary political drama for logging the highest sales in 2010. Sanghi, who also wrote the bestselling 'The Rozbal Line', was given the prize in Mumbai Saturday, a statement issued by the Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards said. The award for...
12:08 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: At or around 7.30 PM on Friday, September 2, the best-known " still - of Indias literature prizes will begin to be presented. Category by category, across five categories, the best books of 2010 " as chosen by four juries and, in one case, by popular votes " will be identified. As will the authors, translators and illustrators associated with those books. Publishers will gloat or sulk, as...
06:35 PM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: A bedtime book for parents which is suppose to put children to sleep, 'Go the F*** to Sleep' has topped the Amazon's bestseller chart a month before its publication. It has reached the number one slot on the strength of pre-orders. Of course it goes without saying the book is actually not meant to be read out to children. It is a parody of kids' picture books. The...
08:39 PM, May 19, 2011
Washington: It's just been a couple of days since he won the Pulitzer, but Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has no time to celebrate. He is already back at work, seeing patients and even doing some writing - though he says it will be a while before he gets a topic for another book."You know, I have gone back to work really - full clinic, clinical responsibilities, back to...
06:50 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Siddhartha Mukherjee's monumental 'The Emperor of All Maladies' meticulously outlines the trajectory of cancer (derived from the Greek word "karkinos," meaning crab) over thousands of years, starting in ancient Egypt. In 2010, seven million people around the world died of cancer. Many have experienced the horrors of this disease through personal experience. The author provides us with a global view of this "shape-shifting entity [that is] imbued with such metaphorical...
11:51 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose very first book has become a runaway success, advocates a strong anti-smoking campaign and breast cancer screening to battle the growing incidence of the disease in India. Less than a month after publication, Mukherjee's book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer", on the history of the disease, features among "The 10 Best Books of 2010" in the New York...
02:01 PM, Dec 13, 2010
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee's book "The Emperor of All Maladies" on the history of cancer and its treatment has made it to the New York Times list of Best Sellers. The book figures 12th in the hard cover non-fiction category with rankings reflecting sales for the week ended Nov 21. New Delhi born Mukherjee's "powerful and ambitious first book" as the Times said in a recent review...
03:36 PM, Dec 04, 2010
Washington: Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author. Since The New York Times began its weekly lists of bestsellers in 1942, only six of the 13 men who have served as the nation's chief executive have placed a book at the top spot for non fiction, none while president. Two of them, Dwight D....
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