Author Gregory Levey just revealed how his book won almost 700,000 Facebook fans, more than Brad Pitt, JK Rowling or the New York Times. His secret: Accidentally appeal to stupid people.

While promoting his book, The Overton Window, Glenn Beck came up with a commercial to show how his thriller is different from the everyday one. While others may give audiences what they want, Beck decided to go a different route.

Amazon.com cut its Kindle price by $70 to $190, and Barnes & Noble did likewise with the Nook. This is no doubt to fend off Apple's fast-selling iPad, but should also keep people buying those high-margin $15 e-books. Clever.

The very funny Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake, has a new book of essays, How Did You Get This Number?. We asked her some questions, got some answers, and got her World Cup predictions, too.

Sometimes it's nice to put down the chalice, for once, and realize that Bob Marley was not the second coming of Jesus, or a hippie, for Chrissake. He was a flawed man! A new biography tells us just how flawed.

By this afternoon, the UPS guy should have delivered each of you your pre-ordered copies of Glenn Beck's exciting new novel, The Overton Window, a scary-looking "faction" thriller. You've already bought it, but still, how are the reviews?

A Valleywag reader recently asked us what reading material best explains the players and games of the tech world. We decided to come up with a list—and ask for your input as well.

When Mark Twain died in 1910 he left 5,000 pages of memoir with instructions that they be published 100 years after his death. This year! Want to know what part we're most excited about? It involves a turn-of-the-century vibrator.

First California boycotted Arizona over its stupid immigration law. Now its lawmakers are fighting back against the Texas Board of Education's changes to history textbooks — to defend McCarthy-ism, minimise Thomas Jefferson and twist the separation of church and state.

A rat ran across the stage as Obama spoke about the financial reform bill that was just passed by congress. The rat has signed a two-book, five-figure deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux to write about its time with Obama.

Facebook's CEO came up with a way of predicting who a given user would be dating one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. And he did it for fun.

In plugging his new book, the former GOP Speaker of the House writes that leftists have infiltrated nearly all facets of society with their brand of "secular-socialism," and they will destroy America faster than you can say firecracker jihadist.

World-class plagiarist and former Daily Beast reporter Gerald Posner was last seen threatening to sue the Miami New Times, for calling him a plagiarist. Today: the Miami New Times reports 35 new instances of Posner plagiarism. LOLOLOL. Good luck, Gerald!

Last Friday, professional media beef-starter Michael Wolff called Newsweek's Jonathan Alter "the most pompous man in American journalism." Today, Wolff's column dismissively cited Alter's new book about Barack Obama. This confluence of Wolff-isms sent Jonathan Alter over the edge.

We've got a brace of books we want to give you—books by Daisy Fuentes, Ivanka Trump and celebrity economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, among others. Go to our Facebook page for details on how to win this exciting bounty.

It never stops. Every week there's a new book on the President, his administration, his victory in 2008, or a member of his family, with new insider-y scoops to be endlessly chewed over on cable news. Enough is enough.

Sarah Palin is writing another book! It'll be called America By Heart, and will be "about" her favorite people, speeches, books, and whatever else she can think up before Thanksgiving. Help us figure out what's going to be in it!

This will be possible! The Vice co-founder has sold a collection of stories to Scribner, which he describes as "a big pile of bar stories." Marketing the book will involve making sure you can never find it anywhere, ever. [Observer]

Google today announced "Google Editions," another e-book service alongside Amazon's for Kindle and Apple's for iPad. Google doesn't know what gBooks will cost or how exactly you'll read them, but they'll definitely piss Steve Jobs off, so full steam ahead!

In your biased Tuesday media column: a WaPo reporter loses all credibility with hateful Jesus wingnuts, yet another Tumblr-to-book deal, the entire media apparatus struggles to figure out the internet's secrets, and a new poll proves nobody is credible.