Daily Lit gets your ad in the pages of a novel

An Idea That Even Scrooge Would Like: DailyLit's Sponsorship Model by Marissa Miley NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Book serialization has come into vogue again, 170 years after Charles Dickens popularized it with "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist." Funny enough, it's the 19th-century author who is championing the form in 2008: His "A Christmas Carol" is one of more than 1,000 titles available through DailyLit, a digital serial book publisher that shares books with nearly 150,000 subscribers in short, customized installments via email and RSS feed. And now it's opening its virtual pages to advertisers. http://adjix.com/j533

Balance your communication skills - be your opposite

Let’s all acquire what we admire, by adopting the inner strengths of our opposite communicator type. If you’re an Instigator-type communicator, you will benefit from sensitivity training. If you’re an Empathizer-type communicator, you will benefit from insensitivity training. http://adjix.com/u3ry

20 Essential Non-fiction Books

"20 Amazing and Essential Non-fiction Books to Enrich Your Library" from the Zen Habits blog This list is of his favorites. http://adjix.com/hr3z

6 Open Letters that changed the world

Epistolary history is full of open letters, those that are written with the intent that they’ll be read by a wide audience. Here we’ve collected six of the best (or at least, most influential) open letters of all time. http://adjix.com/zq4

Pick of the Paperbacks for 2008

Captivating fiction, epic histories and science with universal appeal - Observer writers choose the year's most memorable reads http://adjix.com/vgx

The anatomy of sarcasm

: researchers reveal how the brain handls this complex communication Israeli psychologists draw conclusions from how brain-damaged people comprehend sarcasm – or not http://adjix.com/hza

Do you have a seasonal reading pattern?

As winter settles in, I feel a yearning for a fat Victorian novel. Is your book choice affected by the seasons? http://adjix.com/42w

The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ~Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride It may be inconceivable for you to misuse a word, but a quick look around the web reveals plenty of people doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see others use words incorrectly and parrot them without knowing it’s wrong. We know by now that great copy and content often purposefully break the rules of grammar. It’s only when you break the rules by mistake that you look dumb. So let’s take a look at 27 commonly misused words. Some are common mistakes that can cost you when trying to keep a reader’s attention. Others are more obscure and just interesting to know. http://adjix.com/c3r

Lalisio Literature

http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html""Lalisio Literature" is a search engine designed to help you find the right literature for your research, studies, teaching and leisure. For this purpose, we cooperate with major providers of international literature databases: Top booksellers such as Amazon, Abebooks and Powell's are among our partners as well as open access repositories such as arXiv and PubMed Central. Due to the integration of open access repositories our users can find and access cutting-edge articles mostly free of charge. Based on our analyses of content from numerous sources, we develop helpful search suggestions and relevance indicators for your literature search and help you quickly identify the literature you really want. "

Two Paths for the Novel

From two recent novels, a story emerges about the future for the Anglophone novel. Both are the result of long journeys. Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill, took seven years to write; Remainder, by Tom McCarthy, took seven years to find a mainstream publisher. The two novels are antipodal—indeed one is the strong refusal of the other. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22083

Book - Messages

: the Communication skills book

This is a self-help book that cuts through all the big words and psychological concepts and gets immediately into helping you change. There is something for everybody here -- parents, teens, managers, and children.

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