Fast Forward: Feb 1-5 round-up

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What's caught our eye:

• Hachette joins Macmillan in e-book war against Amazon
• XXX for the XX Set: Women's erotica isn't just dirty. It's nice and dirty.
• Charlie Rose's Feb 4 show: NYT, WSJ, and TechCrunch panelists discuss Apple's iPad
• Author Dani Shapiro on the Today Show (and coming soon to The Book Studio!)
• Unauthorized Oprah bio from Kitty Kelley coming in April
• The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using... an electronic device
• Movie trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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New on The Book Studio:

• Video: A Conversation with Bethanne Patrick (by Bethanne Patrick!), An Uncommon History of Common Things
• Video: A Conversation with Therese Borchard, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression and Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes
• Video: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Wench
• Video: A Conversation with James Brown, Role of a Lifetime: Reflections on Faith, Family and Significant Living
• Video: A Conversation with David Baldacci, True Blue
• Video: A Conversation with David Sax, Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of the Jewish Delicatessen
• Book Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall Smith (review by Kara Sirmans)
• DC Author Events: Week of 2/5/10 - 2/11/10
• Giveaway: Two "In the Confessional" books: Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels by Mary Gordon and PostSecret: Confessions About Life, Death, and God by Frank Warren
• Friday Reads: Feb 5 - What you're reading

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Our favorite comment this week:

Question: Whose secret would you most like to know?
Answer: I'd like to know the truth behind Agatha Christie's 11-day disappearance in 1926!