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The making of a book cover

Ever wanted to watch a book cover get made? Orbit Books' creative director Lauren Panepinto captured "6 hours of my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing" and squashed it down into a minute and a half.
 
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Read an E-Book Week

Have you tried reading a book yet on your nifty new electronic whatever? Now's the time to try.
 
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Dorsey in Daytona

Years before Dexter Morgan began his violent ways in Miami, author Tim Dorsey had already given Florida a serial killer to root for: the strangely charismatic Serge A. Storms.
 
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A reader's take on online books

A gentle rebuttal on behalf of the electronic word.
 
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Serge Storms is invading your Kindle, for free

There are quite a few free books available for the Kindle, and not all of them are worthless.
 
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