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By dave, on July 2nd, 2010%
On July 1st, author and urban farmer Manny Howard appeared on the Colbert Report. Howard has written for or edited many of the magazines you would see on any newstand: GQ, Esquire, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Gourmet, Food & Wine and many more. Earlier this year he published a book about his experiences trying to subsist solely eating food from his backyard garden in Brooklyn.
Buy My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm by Manny Howard from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 1st, 2010%
On June 30th, author Nicholas Carr appeared on the Colbert Report. His newest book is an examination of the internet and the long-term affects of what near ubiquitous access is doing to our culture.
Buy The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 29th, 2010%
One of the things that made the startup of this site fun is that John Waters has a new book out and is on tour to promote it. That I get to blog about it a couple of times in the first month is a pure pleasure as I am a long-time fan of his films and his books. Waters is film director, author and personal favorite around EFTV headquarters. On June 28th, he appeared on the Colbert Report. Amongst other topics, he discussed his new book about the people who have influenced his life and career.
Buy Role Models by John Waters from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 25th, 2010%
On June 24th, the featured guest on The Colbert Report was Michael Specter. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, usually writing on issues of science and technology. His most recent book is an examination of the ways non-scientific thinking has affected the public discourse and what he suggests can be done about that.
Buy Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives from Amazon for the Kindle.
By dave, on June 22nd, 2010%
On June 21st, Stephen Colbert interviewed soldier, business leader and author Wes Moore. His most recent book is about the life choices he made that took him from troubled youth to assistant to the Secretary of State while another man with the same name and similar age from his neighborhood ended up in prison.
Buy The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 18th, 2010%
On June 17th, Stephen Colbert interviewed director and playwright David Mamet. His most recent book and the subject of his appearance concern the shrinking relevance of live theater to modern audiences and how to possibly reverse that trend.
Buy Theatre from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 16th, 2010%
On June 15th, Stephen Colbert interviewed Carl Safina, a noted ecologist and conversationist. In his career he has been awarded the Pew Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent book details a global journey on oceans and coasts in pursuit of Earth’s last warm-blooded monster reptile.
Buy Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 15th, 2010%
On June 14th, Stephen Colbert interviewed Stephen Prothero. Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston University and his newest book is a comparative look at the world’s major religions and how that affects our modern world.
Buy God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on June 8th, 2010%
On June 7th, Stephen Colbert interviewed Jonathan Alter, senior editor for Newsweek magazine. His new book examines the first year of the Obama presidency.
Buy The Promise: President Obama, Year One from Amazon for the Kindle or from B&N for the Nook.
By dave, on June 2nd, 2010%
Hello, world! This is a brand new blog that came out of conversations about the Kindle specifically and ebooks in general that I had at Balticon 44 in Hunt Valley MD. I discussed my dynamic of hearing about a book on TV, checking if it was available in the Kindle store and either buying it right there or with 99.99% probability never thinking about the book again. Someone suggested “Why not create a website to track ebooks that appear on TV?” Why not indeed? That was Sunday, it’s Wednesday and the site is live.
There may be some growing pains and the site design and functionality will get tweaked for some time. Here are the basic ground rules as I see it: if one of the major national TV shows mentions a book that has an ebook version that was published within the last 6 months, I will blog about it here and post a link. This isn’t super hard and fast, but that’s the rule of thumb. I’m generally not covering every single book and I may not be able to watch every second of every show, so if a celebrity with a book out doesn’t actually mention it on the show, I may link to the books anyway. These will all be affiliate links. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is purely altruistic, I do have an angle and I’m being up front about it. I’ve got an affiliate application in to B&N for the Nook store, and when that comes through I’ll begin linking all available
You’ll begin to see over time which shows I cover. The original inspiration for this came from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report but I’m also planning on covering all the national daytime and nighttime talk shows, PBS interview show, etc. If there are particular programs I’m not covering that you’d like to see added to the list, drop me a line at dave@ebooksfromtv.com .
For now, please feel free to leave comments or email feedback. This is a work in progress and will be for some time, but why let perfection be the enemy of progress? Put another way, “close enough for rock and roll! Let’s hit it!”
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