Yesterday, Samsung announced the Samsung eReader, a $299 device which allows you to take notes in the margins and share content with other Samsung eReaders. Samsung also announced a relationship with Barnes and Noble which enables the eReader to access more than a million e-books and e-magazines, as well as access to Google Books. The 2 GB unit (enough for 1500 books) can handle ePub, Adobe PDF, text, BMP, and JPG formats. It offers Bluetooth for... 

“The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.  Read More →

Eddie, an ordinary guy, with an ordinary life in an ordinary world decides one day he is tired of the ordinary life.  Read More →

Mysterious Reviews , mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books , is publishing a new review of The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website. The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam Non-series St. Martin’s Press (Hardcover) ISBN-10: 0-312-54432-4 (0312544324) ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54432-4 (9780312544324) Publication Date: July 2009 List... 

For both professional reasons, wanting to keep up with the new nonfiction, and personal ones, wanting to figure out just what the hell happened, I've been reading a lot lately about the financial meltdown in 2008. Most of those accounts take place in board rooms and Senate chambers, and on cell phone calls between Sun Valley and the Caribbean: CEOs talking to CEOs, or to cabinet members or to committee chairs. Things happen at a lightning... 

This is the fifth book in our 2010 series that focuses on the best books from the past decade: 10 books not to miss The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger was released in 2004, but had a resurgence in popularity in 2009 when the movie version of the book was released. If you read the back of The Time Traveler’s Wife you may wonder whether it is science fiction or romance. It is neither. Henry’s time travel drives the... 

Mystery Books News is pleased to publish a review of a “Mystery on TV”, a television series or movie featuring either a detective, amateur sleuth, or private investigator, or a mystery, suspense, or crime drama with an ensemble cast, that is now available on DVD. —  Read More →

Melissa Milgrom’s oddball first book is a pinballing tour through the poorly understood world of taxidermy.  Read More →

Book Quote: “It was June’s decision to climb atop the overcrowded train. Since that night she had often wondered if it would have been better to wait for the next one, or to have taken their chances on foot, or else steered the twins and herself far off the main road without any provisions and simply waited for the one merciful night that would lift them away forever. The twins would not have suffered and she would not be here now. For... 

Mysterious Reviews , mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books , is publishing a new review of Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website. Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader A Jack McClure Mystery Forge (Hardcover) ISBN-10: 0-7653-2515-2 (0765325152) ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2515-0 (9780765325150) Publication Date: February 2010 List Price: $25.99 Review... 

In reaction to the news that Amazon is seeking government approval to establish operations in Canada, the Canadian Booksellers Association released a statement demanding that the government reject the online retailer’s application. From the press release:  Read More →

In a letter sent to “Colorado-based Amazon Associate[s],” the Amazon said that effective Monday March 8 it was ending its associates program in the state. Amazon cited newly passed legislation aimed at imposing sales tax on online retailers for its decision to end the program.  Read More →

Mysterious Reviews , mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books , is publishing a new review of Let It Ride by John McFetridge. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website. Let It Ride by John McFetridge Non-series St. Martin’s Minotaur (Hardcover) ISBN-10: 0-312-59948-X (031259948X) ISBN-13: 978-0-312-59948-5 (9780312599485) Publication Date: February 2010 List Price:... 

Chelsea Handler, a comedienne who hosts Chelsea, Lately , a late night talk show on E!, has written a new book of essays. Her last book of essays, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea , was a bestseller and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang continues in the same tradition. Fans of Handler’s unique brand of humor will hear her voice come through in each essay. Read a complete review of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler Cover... 

Book Quote: “Carefully, I injected each chocolate with a drop or two of the stuff, touching the injection site with a glass rod (slightly warmed in the Bunsen burner) to smooth over the little hole. “I had carried out the procedure so perfectly that only the faintest whiff of rotten egg reached my nostrils. Safe inside the gooey centers, the hydrogen sulfide would remain cocooned, invisible, unsuspected, until Feely – “Flavia!”...