Digitizing Books

  http://www.kirtas-tech.com/apt_2400.asp

Rare Angus Oblong book/art signing!

A Song of Fire and Ice

A Song of Fire and Ice is going to become an HBO series:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9926.html
 

G-Force!

Hong Kong-based Imagi International has announced a new feature film based on the Gatchaman anime:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9920.html

Highlander - Anime

Highlander: Vengeance, an 80-minute anime feature directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll) will be released in the U.S. in June:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9914.html

Flash!

Sci Fi Channel has started production on a Flash Gordon series:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9897.html

Indiana Jones!, Stardust

The new Indiana Jones movie has a script and a shooting start date:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9836.html
 
A major voice actor has been added to the Stardust cast:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9837.html
 

Robotech in Theaters

Robotech:  The Shadow Chronicles will be released theatrically in a limited number of cities prior to the DVD release:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9832.html

Madman Movie; Prisoner

A movie based on Michael Allred�s Madman is planned:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9789.html
 
AMC is remaking The Prisoner TV series:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9788.html

IF DR. SUESSS HAD WRITTEN THE GRAPES OF WRATH

http://www.sydlexia.com/grapesofwrath.htm

Preacher HBO

Preacher is going to be an HBO series:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9694.html

Last Unicorn DVD; 300

A 25th Anniversary Edition of The Last Unicorn is due out on DVD in February-and fans will want this anamorphic widescreen version, which supplants the poor quality, pan and scan 2004 edition:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9683.html
 
Zack Snyder's film of Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300 was the subject of a major article in Sunday's New York Times:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9685.html

Romance Covers - the way they ought to be...

http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/index.htm

Does celery have a deleterious effect on panty elastic?

http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/index.html

Re: [b] Morally-objectionable collector's item???

Almost exclusively (at least in our store) Mein Kampf is purchased by philosophy 'students' or people attempting to figure him out. After all if you don't have all the information how can you come to an full conclusion? I see nothing morally wrong with selling _any_ used book. Banning those books, even by the expedient of not offering them, merely makes them forbidden fruit and all the more desirable to those that might agree with them. Banning any book is morally repugnant, regardless of it's probable merit, or lack thereof.


At 11/21/2006 02:56 PM, you wrote:

interesting topic.  What about other material like Mein Kampf? Anyone
have any standing policies?
--
Jeremy

It was announced a few moments ago that the O.J.Simpson book, "If I
Did It" has been pulled from distribution and the accompanying TV
special has been cancelled.

Apparently some copies of the book have already been sold. Estimates
range from several hundred to several thousand copies now in readers'
hands. I have been unable to learn whether any ARCs were distributed.

So what is the collective wisdom here??  Is this likely to become a
collector's item?  Should scouts scour the shelves for any remaining
copies?  Is this something you would carry in your inventory, or
would you regard it as without redeeming value?

inquiring minds, etc.....

patterson

NYT Students read aloud for record 6 days

Students read aloud for record 6 days

By Ben Dobbin, Associated Press Writer  |  November 20, 2006

ROCHESTER, N.Y. --A team of high school seniors set a six-day reading
record on Monday as a way to bolster students' interest in books and
boost their school's spirit.

Southside High School's principal said he pursued the reading marathon
to inspire a school still reeling from the 2001 arrest of a senior who
had smuggled a duffel bag full of bombs and guns into the school
intending to carry out a killing spree.

The teen, who was sentenced to more than eight years in prison,
surrendered peacefully after students notified officials that he had
passed someone a threatening note.

"That was just one of the shadows we've tried to overcome," said
principal Christopher Krantz, who took over the school in 2004. "When I
came here, the school was just kind of stumbling. It had been through
eight principals in eight years. It had some negative press; it had lost
pizazz."

When the clock struck 5 p.m. Monday, six National Honor Society members
drew a standing ovation from hundreds of parents, teachers and
classmates. Cheers also rang out 11 hours earlier, at 6 a.m., when they
matched a Guinness World Record set in October 2005 by five Britons who
read aloud continuously for 117 hours at the airport in Manchester, England.

In mostly one-hour shifts, they read more than 20 beloved children's
books, including the six-volume Harry Potter series, seven "Goosebumps"
thrillers and Katherine Paterson's "Bridge to Terabithia." They wrapped
up their epic, 128-hour performance on the school auditorium stage with
"Oh, the Places You'll Go," a Dr. Seuss classic.

Between their reading spells, the students played table tennis, cards
and Scrabble or crawled into their tents onstage for little more than
four hours of sleep at a time. A nurse or a doctor was on duty nearby at
all hours.

One student developed laryngitis and had to cut back to reading for just
10 or 15 minutes at a time until her voice improved with the help of a
humidifier and infusions of honey.

"For the last six days, reading has been the cool thing to do," the
principal said. "I've had people say to me, 'You know what, we turned
the TV off this weekend and read as a family. It was really
inspirational to a lot of people."

Get Smart!

Get Smart is casting and will start shooting soon:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9671.html

Jackson Off Hobbit

In a tiff with New Line, director Peter Jackson says he is off the Hobbit:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9670.html

S.U.B.!

http://www.xtracycle.com/sub.php

Nexus Returns; '300' Sales Soar!

Eisner-winning artist Steve Rude has formed Rude Dude Productions and plans to publish a new full color, quarterly Nexus comic (written by Mike Baron):
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9635.html
 
After the trailer for Zack Snyder's film of Frank Miller's 300 hit theaters sales of the graphic novel soared-and Dark Horse has a plan to keep it in print:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9631.html