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Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpts (35)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt A Song for Arbonne Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt And Then There's This Bill Wasik (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Ariel Steven R. Boyett (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Belladonna Anne Bishop (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bitter is the New Black Jen Lancaster (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Blood Bound Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bone Crossed Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Bright Lights Big Ass Jen Lancaster (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Candy Girl Diablo Cody (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Cry Wolf Patricia Briggs (Penguin Audio)

Digital-Only Audiobook Excerpt Dark Hunger Christine Feehan (Penguin Audio)

VIDEOS  (5)

VIDEO The Scarpetta Factor Patricia Cornwell (Putnam Adult)

VIDEO Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones Judy Schachner (Dutton Children's)

VIDEO Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble Judy Schachner (Dutton Children's)

VIDEO SkippyjonJones in the Dog House Judy Schachner (Dutton Children's)

VIDEO Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice Judy Schachner (Dutton Children's)

EXCERPTS (5)

EXCERPT Rock Her World: The Sex Guide for the Modern Man Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts (Gotham Books)

EXCERPT World Without Ice Henry Pollack, Ph.D. (Avery)

EXCERPT Don't Follow Me: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s Richard Rushfield (Gotham Books)

EXCERPT Design Rules: The Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator Elaine Griffin (Gotham)

EXCERPT Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times Ralph Stanley, Eddie Dean (Gotham)

FEATURES (9)

FEATURE A Touch of Dead Charlaine Harris (Ace )

FEATURE On the Edge Ilona Andrews (Ace )

FEATURE Xombies: Apocalypse Blues Walter Greatshell (Ace )

FEATURE Doubleblind Ann Aguirre (Ace )

FEATURE Latino in America Soledad O'Brien (Celebra)

FEATURE Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid Dr. Denis Leary (Plume)

FEATURE Dangerous or Safe? Dr. Cara Natterson (Hudson Street Press)

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Penguin Books Online Digest, 9/15 - 10/5, 2009

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPTS (5)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Scarpetta Factor Abridged Patricia Cornwell (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Scarpetta Factor Unabridged Patricia Cornwell (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT More Information Than You Require John Hodgman (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Death Masks Jim Butcher (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT A Simple Christmas Mike Huckabee (Penguin Audio)

EXCERPTS (2)

EXCERPT Bicycle Diaries David Byrne (Viking)

EXCERPT Shooting Stars LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger (Penguin Press)

FEATURES (5)

FEATURE Covet J.R. Ward (Signet)

FEATURE Demon Forged Meljean Brook (Berkley)

FEATURE Shadowlight Lynn Viehl (Onyx)

FEATURE Dragon Moon Rebecca York (Berkley)

FEATURE Dracula The Un-dead Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (Dutton)

Q&A (1)

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Ayn Rand's seminal novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, as well as eighteen other Rand works, are being made available as eBooks for the first time, it was announced this week when the titles went on-sale. The publication marks the first time readers will have access to these classic novels in digital formats, and comes as Rand and her work, especially the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, are enjoying increased sales. In the first half of 2009, Penguin Group (USA) shipped more than 300,000 copies of Atlas Shrugged-25 percent more than shipped in all of 2008.

Some journalists and television pundits have drawn parallels between the government takeover of industry detailed in Atlas Shrugged and recent federal legislation, leading to robust conversations on Rand and her Objectivist philosophy. This year, several national media outlets-including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, FOX News Channel, and CNN-have highlighted Ayn Rand and noted the surging interest in Atlas Shrugged.

Penguin Group (USA) currently publishes Rand's fiction and nonfiction in a variety of printed formats that includes trade and mass market paperbacks, hardcovers, and box sets. The Ayn Rand eBooks are all available wherever eBooks are sold in many formats, including those compatible with the Sony Reader, Amazon Kindle, and iPhone, among others.

Penguin Books Online Digest, 9/1 - 9/11, 2009

EXCERPT

EXCERPT How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It James Rawles (Plume)

EXCERPT Shooting Stars Lebron James and Buzz Bissinger (The Penguin Press)

EXCERPT The Scarpetta Factor Patricia Cornwell (Putnam)

EXCERPT An Education Nick Hornby (Riverhead)

FEATURE

FEATURE Disgrace (Movie Tie-in Edition) J. M. Coetzee (Penguin)

FEATURE The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read Daniel Solin (Perigee)

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Penguin Books Online Digest, 8/24 - 8/27, 2009

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Fire Kristin Cashore (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Return to Hundred Acre Wood David Benedictus (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Hothouse Orchid Stuart Woods (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Rough Country Unabridged John Sandford (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Why Our Health Matters Andrew Weil, M.D. (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Rough Country Abridged John Sandford (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Spartan Gold Unabridged Clive Cussler (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Spartan Gold Abridged Clive Cussler (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Shooting Stars LeBron James (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT What French Women Know Debra Ollivier (Penguin Audio)

Penguin Books Online Digest, 8/17 - 8/21, 2009

EXCERPT

EXCERPT Down to Business Clara Villarosa (Avery)

EXCERPT Forking Fantastic Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds (Gotham)

EXCERPT Graph Outloud  graphjam.com (Gotham)

VIDEO

VIDEO An Education Nick Hornby (Riverhead)

VIDEO The Law of Nines Terry Goodkind (Putnam)

VIDEO The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Need Daniel Solin (Perigee)

Penguin Books Online Digest, 8/10 - 8/14, 2009

AUTHOR Q&A

Q&A The Conversation Hill Harper (Gotham)

EXCERPT

EXCERPT Too Good to Be true Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio)

EXCERPT The Law of Nines Terry Goodkind (Putnam)

FEATURE 

FEATURE Learning to Breathe Alison Wright (Plume)

VIDEO 

VIDEO Reason for God Timothy Keller (Riverhead)

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AUDIOBOOK EXCERPTS

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Guilty Pleasures Unabridged CDs Laurell K. Hamilton (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Laughing Corpse Unabridged CDs Laurell K. Hamilton (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Intervention Robin Cook (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Bride's Farewell Meg Rosoff (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Even Money Dick Francis and Felix Francis (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Guilty Pleasures Abridged CDs Laurell K. Hamilton (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Laughing Corpse Abridged CDs Laurell K. Hamilton (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT The Law of Nines Terry Goodkind (Penguin Audio)

AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater Frank Bruni (Penguin Audio)