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San Diego Comic-Con

It's preview night at what is arguably the biggest event of the genre world: San Diego Comic-Con. Can't be there? Set up an RSS feed.

But Is It a Book?

In conjunction with the TV series, they are rolling out a thing, mostly set up for iPad, since it requires high-quality video. Is it a book? Who knows. Publishers Weekly reports and links to the a video, which is fairly heavy in ad content, relevant and not.

Amazon Claims Ebook Sales Outpace Hardcovers

Amazon, not noted for being forthcoming about sales numbers, now claims that downloads are way up when compared to hardcovers. NPR reports.

Jumanji

And the rest of the film.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

And the rest of the story.

The Borrowers in Japanese

The Wall Street Journal reports. Mary Norton's The Borrowers has been reworked by Studio Ghibli. There are, as yet, no arrangements for a release in English or subtitled.

Japanese Author Self-Publishes For iPad

Yet another author seeing how self-publishing might work. Ryu Murakami, author of a number of novels, will release his newest for the iPad. The story was later corrected to reflect his regular publisher's interest in the work. The Wall Street Journal reports.

Ebook Sales Number Fifty-Five Percent of Mass Market Paperbacks

In the "it's probably not a fad department," ebooks sales now number more than half the numbers of mass market paperbacks. Publishers Weekly reports. This year may be the year that books stop being chunks of dead trees.

Publishers Strive to Survive

Yet another message of doom and foreboding about the publishing industry, this time in The Bookseller.com, with a summary of figures to date for the year.

Lovecraft Reconsidered

Stefan Dziemianowicz has done a nice summary for Publishers Weekly on the influence of the now ubiquitous author of horror.