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Bristol Palin Breaks Up With Boyfriend for the Second Time
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have broken off their engagement after announcing their intention to marry just three weeks ago.
“It’s over,” Bristol, 19, told People. “I broke up with him.”
Bristol said that the relationship took a turn for the worse on July 14, the same day they announced their engagement to Us Weekly.
Levi reportedly told Bristol he may have fathered another baby with another teenager - the report has since been refuted.
“The final straw was him flying to Hollywood for what he told me was to see some hunting show but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family,” Bristol said. “He’s just obsessed with the limelight and I got played.” Read More!
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sets record on Amazon!
Stieg Larsson becomes first author to sell 1m ebooks on Amazon
The late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has beaten Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson to become the first author to sell more than one million ebooks on Amazon.
The online retailer said yesterday that Larsson, author of the Millennium trilogy, had become the first member of its new "Kindle Million Club", for authors whose work has sold over a million copies in Amazon's Kindle store in the US. The crime novelist is likely to be joined by thriller writer Patterson – Amazon said last week that it had sold over 860,000 of his ebooks – while Twilight scribe Meyer, Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris and queen of romantic suspense Nora Roberts have each sold more than 500,000 Kindle books in the US.
The novelist's three books – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – currently top Amazon's Kindle bestseller list, and are also in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time, according to the retailer.
Quercus has sold 3.3m copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40m copies, "but they are literally selling too fast to count", said Millar. Read More!
The late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has beaten Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson to become the first author to sell more than one million ebooks on Amazon.
The online retailer said yesterday that Larsson, author of the Millennium trilogy, had become the first member of its new "Kindle Million Club", for authors whose work has sold over a million copies in Amazon's Kindle store in the US. The crime novelist is likely to be joined by thriller writer Patterson – Amazon said last week that it had sold over 860,000 of his ebooks – while Twilight scribe Meyer, Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris and queen of romantic suspense Nora Roberts have each sold more than 500,000 Kindle books in the US.
The novelist's three books – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – currently top Amazon's Kindle bestseller list, and are also in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time, according to the retailer.
Quercus has sold 3.3m copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40m copies, "but they are literally selling too fast to count", said Millar. Read More!
Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Mast*rbation
Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest animator alive. And he does not like the iPad.
Noted for Studio Ghibli classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Miyazaki has stated that he rarely watches TV, does not own a computer or a fax and doesn't even own a DVD player. Instead of e-mail, he writes letters. He also makes wonderful films.
In an interview in the July issue of "Neppuu", the Studio Ghibli published pamphlet, the famed animator does not pull any punches when discussing the iPad, or what he calls the "game machine-type thing" that people are "stroking with strange gestures".
"For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever," Miyazaki said about the iPad. "It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying."
Miyazaki also noted that he also got "fed up" when everyone on the trains started reading manga and then later when everyone began using cell phones on the trains to presumably send text messages.
He might seem like an eccentric technophobe, but he is coming from an "All I need are pencil and paper" point-of-view. That might all he need. He's Hayao Miyazaki! And with those simple tools, he can create brilliance. But not everyone is talented as Miyazaki.
Studio Ghibli, his animation company, is currently working on a Nintendo DS and PS3 game called "Ni no Kuni". Miyazaki is not directly involved with these projects. Read More!