Amazon Expands Kindle Colorsoft Lineup With Cheaper Model and First Kids Edition

Posted on July 25, 2025 by admin

Amazon has introduced two new versions of its color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, making the device more affordable and expanding it to younger readers.

The new 16GB Colorsoft costs $249.99—$30 less than last year’s 32GB Signature Edition, which remains available at $279.99. While the cheaper model keeps the same 7-inch color display, warm light, and weeks-long battery life, it drops features like wireless charging, auto-adjusting front light, and larger storage.

Amazon is also releasing its first color Kindle for kids at $269.99. The Kids edition comes bundled with a protective illustrated cover, a two-year guarantee, and a year of Amazon Kids+, which offers access to thousands of books, comics, and audiobooks. It also includes kid-focused tools such as Word Wise, Vocabulary Builder, and the OpenDyslexic font, along with Bluetooth for listening to audiobooks.

The move broadens the Colorsoft line, which debuted last year, positioning it as a better fit for readers of graphic novels, illustrated books, and comics who want a color experience without leaving the Kindle ecosystem.

Blumhouse Marks 15 Years with Behind-the-Scenes Book Chronicling Its Horror Legacy

Posted on July 12, 2025 by admin

A new nonfiction book celebrating the rise of Blumhouse Productions is set to hit shelves this fall. Titled Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse, the book offers a behind-the-scenes account of the low-budget studio that reshaped modern horror cinema.

Founded by Jason Blum, Blumhouse is best known for its highly successful titles like Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Get Out, Sinister, Split, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and M3GAN. The book details how Blum’s cost-effective approach helped build a billion-dollar brand while pushing genre boundaries.

Horror’s New Wave includes insights from Blum himself, along with commentary from filmmakers, actors, and creatives who contributed to the studio’s output, including M. Night Shyamalan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Featuring behind-the-scenes stories, production anecdotes, and kill-count statistics, the book is positioned as both a retrospective and a resource for fans of horror and film history.

Published by Simon & Schuster, Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse will be released on September 30, 2025.

The “Ice Cream Man” Summer Scoop: New Sickly Sweet Flavors Coming Soon

Posted on June 7, 2025 by admin

The delectable, 2025 Eisner Award nominated series by creators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran returns with a tasty tale of terror this July

Listen for the ear-worm jingle of the Ice Cream truck as it pulls up to the curb with a sickly sweet new Summer scoop…The darkly inventive, critically acclaimed comic book series by creators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Old Neon will return with a yummy new tale of terror, Ice Cream Man #44, in July and the Ice Cream Man, Vol. 11 trade paperback collected edition in September from Image Comics.

This tantalizing tale will center around a job performance review gone wrong. Additional upcoming issues of the anthology will feature a twisted Hitchcockian Rear Window homage, a completely creepy tale of cryogenic anti-aging chambers, and a series of vintage medical ads that downplay some pretty shocking side effects.

“Golly. I can’t believe we’ve been putting this book out for 7.5 years,” said Prince. “In comic time, I think that makes us officially geriatric. And so, speaking as a veritable sequential grandpa, I’ll tell you this: I still don’t quite understand how and why we have made it this far. I mean, I am so proud of the corpus of tales we’ve assembled; Ice Cream Man is the defining artistic project of my life. (And I think I can probably say the same for my co-creators).”
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“It Ends With Us” Film: Trailer, Release Date

Posted on May 19, 2024 by admin

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni stars in this big-screen adaptation of the best-seller by Colleen Hoover, and the first footage has just dropped.

The film follows a young woman through the tumultuous stages of an abusive relationship. After moving to the city of Boston after college, she decides to start her own business as a florist only to fall in love with a young neurosurgeon.

Directed by Justin Baldoni and produced by Alex Saks, Jamey Heath, and Christy Hall, “It Ends With Us” is set for release on August 09, 2024.

The film stars Brandon Sklenar, Blake Lively, Jenny Slate and Justin Baldoni.

“Love Like the Falling Petals”, Keisuke Uyama’s Bestselling Novel Hits US Bookshelves

Posted on January 12, 2024 by admin

The Japanese bestselling novel “Love Like the Falling Petals” by Keisuke Uyama has just been released across America. First published by Shueisha, Inc. in 2017, the romance novel which explores the beauty and pain of young love, became a runaway bestseller in Japan, selling more than 700,000 copies, and also inspired a popular, live-action Netflix movie of the same name in 2022.

“Growing up, dreaming I would one day become a writer, I never thought that my stories would be read outside of Japan and reach people around the world,” said novelist and accomplished screenwriter Keisuke Uyama. “I am deeply moved and excited about the English-language edition of Love Like the Falling Petals.”

“I first got to know the story of Love Like The Falling Petals through the Netflix film,” said cover artist Heikala, a Finnish artist who resides in Tokyo. “Then when I got the chance to read the book, I was touched by the way that Uyama depicts the varying forms of love in his book.”
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Live Nation And Penguin Random House Announce Bono’s ‘Stories Of Surrender’ The Book Tour

Posted on October 4, 2022 by admin

Today, Live Nation and Penguin Random House announced a 14-city book tour in support of SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story, the forthcoming memoir by Bono—artist, activist and U2 lead singer —which will be released worldwide on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

The book tour, titled ‘Stories of Surrender’ and produced by Live Nation, is a limited run of theatre dates to mark the release of a memoir in which one of the world’s most iconic artists writes for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. Bono will bring the stories of his life to life — live and in person— to 14 cities across North America and Europe.

Kicking off at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on Wednesday, November 2, ‘Stories of Surrender’ will make stops in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Nashville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Glasgow, Manchester, Berlin, Paris—and Bono’s hometown of Dublin— before wrapping on Monday, November 28 in Madrid.

Tickets go on sale starting Friday, October 7 at 10am local time and will be available at: www.ticketmaster.com/bono. Each ticket purchased comes with a copy of Bono’s forthcoming book, Surrender, to be released on November 1, 2022. All tickets purchased online will be delivered as secure mobile tickets. There will be a two-ticket limit per person.
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Amazon Studios Acquires Rights To Charles Soule & Ryan Brown’s Comic Book Series “Eight Billion Genies” After A Heated Auction

Posted on July 7, 2022 by admin

Last week, Hollywood Reporter announced that Amazon Studios has acquired the development rights to Charles Soule and Ryan Browne’s bestselling comic book series, Eight Billion Genies, after a heated auction.

The first project coming out of the deal is a feature film, which will be executive produced by Soule and Browne and serve as the cornerstone in a cross-media Universe of storytelling.

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne are represented by Angela Cheng Caplan of Cheng Caplan Company and Eric Feig of Feig Law.

The Eight Billion Genies comic book series asks, If you had one wish… what would you wish for? Now, what if everyone else on the planet had one wish too? At exactly the same moment, everyone on earth gets a genie and one wish. Eight seconds later, the world has transformed forever…and that’s just the beginning.
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Katie Couric Announces All-Star Lineup To Join Her 2021 “Going There” Book Tour

Posted on October 14, 2021 by admin

Couric Will Be Joined by Special Guests at Every Stop Including Jennifer Garner, Chance the Rapper, SNL’s Chloe Fineman & Melissa Villaseñor, Kara Swisher, Ina Garten, Leslie Jordan, Brad Paisley & Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Savannah Guthrie, and Tan France.

Award winning journalist and best-selling author Katie Couric has revealed the nine special guests that will be joining her on the road for her 2021 Going There Tour, produced by Live Nation and in partnership with P&G.

In celebration of her forthcoming memoir, Going There, out on October 26th, the tour kicks off October 28th in Boston with special guest Tan France. Additionally, Couric will be in conversation with Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman & Melissa Villaseñor in New York City, Kara Swisher in Washington, D.C., Savannah Guthrie in Philadelphia, Chance The Rapper in Chicago, Ina Garten in Atlanta, JenniferGarner in Los Angeles, Leslie Jordan in San Francisco, and Brad Paisley & Kimberly Williams-Paisley in Nashville.
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Zack Snyder Reveals Forbidden Planet’s Army Of The Dead Worldwide Exclusive

Posted on May 20, 2021 by admin

Superstar director Zack Snyder – director of Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman & Zack Snyder’s Justice League, has announced via retailer Forbidden Planet that he is launching an exclusive Snyder-curated Forbidden Planet edition of The Army of the Dead: The Making of the Film book.

Speaking exclusively to Forbidden Planet TV, Snyder said: “Titan Books and Forbidden Planet have done amazing work with this curated exclusive edition. It’s been a real pleasure for me to have this exclusive partnership with you guys, we’ve produced “making of” books that span my filmography and they’ve all been amazing. For me as a filmmaker, just to have this record of the work that was done to create these films – all the hard work that the artists have done – these books are a service that really allow fans to connect with how these movies are made. The Army of the Dead book is really fun, it captures a lot of the spirit of the movie and the joy we had making it. Creating this special edition was a real pleasure and I’m excited for the fans to check it out.”

Nerdist Book Club Takes on Frank Herbert’s DUNE

Posted on April 30, 2020 by admin

Nerdist Announces the Next Book in the Series, to Air in May and June

Hosts of the new Nerdist series Nerdist Book Club closed Wednesday night’s show with the announcement that the next book they will be reading and discussing is Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction epic DUNE. Nerdist Book Club launched April 8, brings fans together on multiple streaming channels to join hosts Maude Garrett (GeekBomb), Hector Navarro (DC Daily), and Rachel Heine (Nerdist Editor-in-Chief) to discuss books, wine, pets, and more, and they have just completed their first title, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

Now, for science fiction lovers who have just never gotten around to it, or for readers who have been intimidated by the sheer size of Herbert’s bestselling tome, Nerdist Book Club will take the audience through this essential novel over the course of six episodes and six weeks, a pace that is manageable but will also give readers plenty of time to get excited for the new feature film’s release later this year.

Nerdist Book Club’s DUNE series will stream live on the Nerdist YouTube channel, the Geek & Sundry YouTube Channel, and the Geek & Sundry Twitch Channel from 5-6pm PT on Wednesdays, beginning May 6, 2020. To join the conversation, fans should follow Nerdist on Twitter and subscribe to the Nerdist YouTube Channel.