Jane Goodall Admits Borrowing Passages for New Book

Ms. Goodall, the primatologist known for her research on chimpanzees, said she was “distressed” that sources were not properly cited in an upcoming book on plants.

Media Decoder: Free Downloads of ‘Da Vinci Code’ to Promote ‘Inferno’

For the 10th anniversary of “The Da Vinci Code,” the book will be available for download free for a week, and it will feature the first chapter of “Inferno,” Dan Brown’s coming thriller.

Media Decoder Blog: Geithner to Write Book on Financial Crisis

Timothy F. Geithner, the former Treasury secretary, will write the book for Crown Books, a Random House imprint.

Media Decoder Blog: The First Strike in the Roger Ailes Book Wars

In an excerpt from “Roger Ailes: Off Camera,” Mr. Ailes, the head of the Fox News Channel, takes aim at Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Newt Gingrich, among others.

Media Decoder: A Boy Saved by Oskar Schindler: Memoir Will Tell the Story

Leon Leyson was 10 when the Germans invaded Poland, but was saved, along with some members of his family, by Oskar Schindler, who employed them in his factories.

Publisher Pulls a 2nd Book by Lehrer, ‘How We Decide’

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which published all three of Jonah Lehrer’s books, confirmed after fact-checking the book that it would no longer offer it for sale.

Bargain Hunting for Books, and Feeling Sheepish About It

Book publishers and booksellers are faltering. But don’t blame the recession — it’s all the fault of the Internet used books market.br/br/span class=”advertisement” a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28streitfeld.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=05f399cfcb004deba37ed325aeab8424u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28streitfeld.html” border=”0″//a
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