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...young readers to C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Tolkien. "We can't keep Lord of the Rings on the shelf," Kunzel says. Tolkien purists who can't bear to see images of Middle-earth put on the screen should take some comfort in the fact that the paperback version of the trilogy is flying off the shelves. The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, is currently No.1 on Publishers Weekly's mass-market best-seller list, re-issued for a new generation of Tolkien readers and promoted with a still from the movie on its cover...
...MUSIC MAN: Next week, MTV Books/Pocket will publish "Aaliyah: More Than a Woman," a mass market paperback original by TIME senior writer Chris Farley, who interviewed hip-hop soul artist Aaliyah not long before her death. According to his publisher, "Farley has talked to dozens of Aaliyah's friends, family members and acquaintances, from the singer's mother to her high school vocal coach to the director of her forthcoming film "The Queen of the Damned," which was completed after her death. Farley also interviewed Aaliyah's celebrity pals and admirers, including her producers Missy Elliot and Timbaland, vocalist Beyonce...
...RING-A-DING-DING: PW reports that anticipation is building for "The Lord of the Rings," which opens on December 19 in 10,000 theaters internationally. The mass-market paperback edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (Ballantine; paperback) is already No. 1 on PW's mass-market list. "The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide" (Houghton Mifflin paperback) is No. 11 on the 12/9 NYT paperback nonfiction list...
...anecdotal evidence to suggest increasing numbers of people are finding solace in churches, temples and mosques), but in the sense that they are turning to books for information about the ongoing war on terrorism and its cultural and historical roots. The No.1 book on The New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list right now is "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid; meanwhile, on the hardcover nonfiction list, Armstrong's "Islam" rides high at No.7, sandwiched in between "Germs" (Simon & Schuster) by Judith Miller at No.6 and "Holy War, Inc."(Free Press) by Peter L. Bergen...
TWISTED The Origami, a "concept" (read unfinished) device from National Semiconductor, combines a removable digital video and still camera, MP3 player, videoconferencing terminal, cell phone, mini-keyboard, Windows PC and wireless Internet browser in a single plastic case the size of a paperback novel. It changes function by twisting into seemingly endless positions and should be available late next fall...