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Literanista December 27, 2008

News items like this: Man Blogs During Plane Crash, Lives To Twitter The Tale continuously amaze me!

Some interesting & free stuff:

If you have a Sony eReader, go to the following link, and they will offer you 9 free ebooks download, it’s in the center of home page. http://ebookstore.sony.com/

FREE – Robin Cook’s ‘Foreign Body’ Webseries on ITUNES / Web
The 50 episode ‘Foreign Body’ webseries is FREE on Itunes & the web. This is a prequel to Robin Cook’s thriller ‘Foreign Body’ on medical tourism. On Itunes, the episodes are in the form of podcasts.Itunes: Just search for “Foreign Body” in Itunes and download the podcasts.

Website: http://www.foreignbody.tv/
The book: http://www.foreignbody.tv/about/book
Episodes on Web: http://www.foreignbody.tv/episodes

Authors pick 2008 favorite Latino books

ReadWriteThink.org offers January 2009 calendar

Each month, the ReadWriteThink.org Calendar offers quick classroom activities, lesson plans, Web links, and texts pertaining to various reading–related and general interest events. Here is a sampling of the links for January. There also are links relating to other noted authors and events, and more. For further information, visit the website. The ReadWriteThink.org is a nonprofit website maintained by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English with support from the Verizon Foundation, and in association with the Thinkfinity consortium. Visit the main site.

Miami Herald names Junot Diaz’s novel top literature event of the year

A Bookstore Comes to East Harlem: The book stops here: Neighborhood store determined to survive

Free ebook download: “Thriving on Less” from zenhabits.net:
http://zenhabits.net/2008/12/free-ebook-thriving-on-less-simplifying-in-a-tough-economy

The eBook market has yet another new player: the Foxit eSlick $229 USD here [via Tech Digest]