Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Last week Pocket Books released the first chapter of "Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night," the first book of their big cross-over book of the year. This week TrekMovie has an exclusive look at chapter two of this exciting new novel by David Mack. [see below, w/ spoilers]
The Hip-Hop Cosign (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Pepa is the spiciest ingredient in the legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa, and the outspoken star of VH1’s smash-hit reality show. She’s Sandy “Denton”–she’s never at a loss for words. Now in “Let’s Talk About Pep” (VH1/Pocket Books; September 2008), she bares all, telling her side of the story and leaving no detail unturned– with the [...]
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Next month, Pocket Books returns to the world of Star Trek reference books with the release of "Star Trek 101," written by Trek insiders Terry Erdmann and Paula Block. TrekMovie has an exclusive preview of the book and we also take a look back at Pocket’s history of Star Trek ‘companion’ books.
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Next month the big Star Trek crossover book event of the year kicks off with David Mack’s "Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night." Pocket Books has just released an excerpt from this first book of the upcoming trilogy. [see below, w/ spoilers]
The Disney Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you “Darth Mater” a one of a kind Star Wars and Cars Die Cast Mashup from Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Mattel. Tell me you don’t want this now. Alright, everyone put your pocket books down for a minute. There’s only one of these puppies, it’s signed by John Lasseter and George Lucas, [...]
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
George Gutowski submits: Cox Radio (CXR) announced a drop in revenues of approximately 8%. Profitability disappeared and red ink flowed down the corporate hallways and through investor’s pocket books. They did take the opportunity to realize an impairment of $147 million of their intangible costs. While it was a non cash cost, it does represent 14% of shareholder equity. I guess we should be thankful...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
"No Choice but Seduction" by Johanna Lindsey; Pocket Books ($25)
Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Companhia das Letras in Brazil is promoting its pocket book collection with a print advertising campaign, featuring classic paintings retouched to include typical contents of pockets. Edward Gibbon’s book, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is placed along side a cigarette lighter. Franz Kafka’s book, The Trial, is placed alongside a large car key. Jorge G. [...]
Michi's Thoughts on Business (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
Everybody, listen. There’s a Web 2.0 bubble right now. I know it’s difficult for some people to acknowledge, and many people may even casually agree with me without actually believing the statement in full. But it’s true, and the quicker you realize this, the better it will be for your pocket books. Lately, I’ve been doing [...]
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The new Star Trek: Ships of the Line: 2009 Wall Calendar is hitting stores this week and it has 14 beautiful new images. Pocket Books has provided TrekMovie with a whole bunch of high resolution images from the Calendar, including some exclusives.
io9 (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Missing your summer fix of The 4400, the USA Network's canceled show about missing people who return with weird abilities? Pocket Books has your back, releasing the first original 4400 novel: The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
This week’s Library Computer checks the math on "Greater than the Sum," Christopher L. Bennett’s new Next Generation tale which continues the post-Nemesis story of Jean Luc Picard and his crew on the Enterprise E. Also we reflect on the latest news coming from Pocket Books announced at Shore Leave.
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Tonight at the Shore Leave convention in Baltimore, Pocket Books is revealing their line up of Star Trek books from now into early 2010. We have the full list and a whole bunch of new covers below.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Obama's fundraising is trending downwards . Every fundraising campaign needs a bogeyman, and the media helpfully resurrected the anti-Hillary Clinton crusade that the right brewed in the 90s during the primary. Now that we're in the battle for the general, the media just doesn't hate John McCain like that, and the public compliantly picks up that attitude. So most of that was pretty predictable.
The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Whenever something happens to Boris Johnson, people say to me with a merry smile, "You'll have to do a new chapter of your book." As it happens, I've just written a new chapter of my life of Johnson ("Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson", Pocket Books, £7.99), serialised in the Telegraph and now available from quite a number of good bookshops. But ...
