Business
Pfizer Profits Halved As Lipitor Comes Off Patent via @forbes
Pfizer booked a sharp decline in fourth-quarter profit Tuesday, and more importantly cut its 2012 outlook as it projects its first year of results after patent expiration on cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Profits dropped by half to $1.5 billion, or 50 cents per share in Q4 as its star drug came off patent during Nov. 30. Revenue for its primary care medicines, which includes Lipitor, decreased by 8% to $5.4 billion. More…
Teens Ditch Facebook for Twitter via @theweek
More and more young people are tweeting, especially as their parents ease into Mark Zuckerberg’s social network. More...
Pinterest Driving More traffic than Google+, nearly on par with Twitter via @socialmedia411
Pinterest, the website which lets people collect and share photos online with a “virtual pinboard,” has steadily amassed a very dedicated following of users that spreads far beyond the app-obsessed early adopter crowd. On Tuesday, a new study out of content sharing company Shareaholic showed just how powerful the Palo Alto, California-based startup has become. More…
Books
Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance via @paidContent
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying an e-reader.
A study presented by book marketing firm Verso Advertising at Digital Book World last week finds that 15.8 percent of book buyers already own an e-reader—that figure has doubled since 2010. But 51.8 percent of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase one in the next 12 months. More…
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World (flavorwire)
With Amazon slowly taking over the publishing world and bookstores closing left and right, things can sometimes seem a little grim for the brick and mortar booksellers of the world. After all, why would anyone leave the comfort of their couch to buy a book when with just a click of a button, they could have it delivered to their door? Well, here’s why: bookstores so beautiful they’re worth getting out of the house (or the country) to visit whether you need a new hardcover or not. More…
The Worst Book Ever is Moon People via @PublishersWkly
“What I’m going to do before telling you about the epic stinker Moon Peopleby Dale M. Courtney is issue a blanket sic statement for the duration of this article. I think that’s important to say before we move forward. Anyway, this is how chapter one of Moon People by Dale M. Courtney opens (source):
This story begins on a Beautiful sunny day in Daytona Beach Florida With a man by the name of David Braymer. A 45-year-old Single man that works at the local High school as a science teacher and astrology in the 12-grade level. Now he’s been here about 5 years and has become kind of partial to a young lady by the name of Cheral Baskel a local restaurant owner in Daytona Beach. At the moment Cheral’s preparing her restaurant for another Shuttle launch at the cape and everyone always gathers at her place because you can see the launch real good at her place. It’s also on the water and its real close to the cape and she really decks the place out.” More…
Barnes and Noble Will not Stock Amazon Published Books via @galleycat
Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores, keeping the new publisher out of the country’s largest network of brick and mortar bookstores.
Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Brad Stone called it “a declaration of war,” More...
Sports
Blake Griffin gives facial to Kendrick Perkins
McDonald’s Names the 35 Best High School Basketball Players of All Time. via @ESPNHS
On Tuesday, in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the premier high school all-star hoops event, the McDonald’s All-American Games unveiled its list of the 35 greatest McDonald’s All-Americans. More…
Entertainment
Zooey Deschanel sings “Yesterday Once More” by The Carpenters via @zooeydeschanel
Violin player handles cell phone situation brilliantly.
Fashion
Leisure Suit Larry Never Goes out of Style @jsmcdougall
See the collection on Cafe Press
Octopus Diver T-Shirt – everybody needs one.
Octopus Diver Shirt by KoenigCo
letters from slumberboard 