6 posts and columns on novel

News Byte

Online Audiences Are Famished for “The Hunger Games” (Though Vampires Still Rule!)

in Media on March 21 at 9:25 am PT

As of yesterday morning, the movie version of the popular teen novel “The Hunger Games,” which comes out Friday, accounted for 92 percent of total ticket sales on Fandango. That includes 1,200 showtimes sold-out on the online ticketing service, which recently signed various deals with AMC Theatres, Facebook and, earlier this week, Yahoo Movies. Still, the kids-fight-to-the-death film has not yet topped the online advance sales for the three “Twilight” movies or the last two in the “Harry Potter” franchise.

Viral Video: “John Carter” Is on Mars

in Media on December 2, 2011 at 2:12 am PT

A sci-fi classic goes live-action on the Red Planet.
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Sister on Steve Jobs’s Last Words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”

in News on October 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs lived a life that read like an epic novel, so it’s should be no surprise that his very last words on this temporal plane would be just as dramatic.
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Another Facebook Movie Coming–But This Time With AOL As Co-Star

in Media on May 24, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

You can chillax, Mark Zuckerberg–it’s not “The Social Network 2: The Winklevii Stroke, Stroke, Strooooke Back.” In fact, it’s more like: “You’ve Got Social Network Mail.”

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China’s First Twitter Novel

in News on March 11, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that hasn’t stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses. This week, influential blogger Lian Yue started publishing a novel on Twitter, believed to be the first time a Chinese-language novel is released on the popular service.