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The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network
by Katherine Losse
Early Facebook employee Katherine Losse promises an insider's account of the social network's rise and of the "hackers, VCs and ivy league grads who worked (and played) there."

Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works
by Adam Lashinsky
Fortune magazine's Adam Lashinsky describes the "secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies" that has allowed Apple to churn out hit after hit.

Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
by Warren Littlefield, T. R. Pearson
Former NBC exec Warren Littlefield rounds up recollections from the people behind "Seinfeld," "Friends," "ER" and other hit series from the era of "Must See TV."

Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
by Andy Cohen
The Bravo TV exec behind the "Real Housewives" franchise writes about his lifelong love affair with pop culture that brought him from the suburbs of St. Louis to his own TV show.

Flip the Script: How to Turn the Tables and Win in Business and Life
by Bill Wackermann
Conde Nast publishing director Bill Wackermann says that by "flipping the script" you can "create options and make personal changes in both your professional and personal life."

Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
by Dan Rather, Digby Diehl
Dan Rather's memoir includes his thoughts on the state of journalism today and what he sees for its future, as well as never-before-revealed personal observations.

Cronkite
by Douglas Brinkley
This "deeply researched and brilliantly analytic" biography of Walter Cronkite "captures his essence," according to Walter Isaacson. "It's a fascinating and valuable tale."

Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
by Jeff Himmelman
"I hope we're as good friends when you finish your book as we are now," Ben Bradlee told the author of this biography. "But I don't give a [expletive] what you write about me."

Dial M for Murdoch
by Tom Watson, Martin Hickman
"Dial M for Murdoch" promises details about News Corp.'s British phone-hacking scandal that "have never been disclosed before in public, including smears and threats."

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
by Clay A. Johnson
Clay Johnson, co-founder of the firm behind Barack Obama's online presidential campaign, shows how to be more selective in today's glut of emails, texts, tweets and downloads.

The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors
by Matthew Winkler
Bloomberg News provides "the definitive guide to reporting and editing the story of money" with this internal manual compiled over the course of two decades.

The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
by David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters for America
The news watchdog group Media Matters for America asserts that Fox News has changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican party.

Rupert Murdoch, The Master Mogul of Fleet Street
by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair's "no-holds-barred" e-book rounds up 20 stories from the magazine, tracing the rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch "and illuminating the roots of his current predicament."

Phone Hacking: How the Guardian broke the story
by The Guardian
This e-book from the Guardian promises to deliver the "definitive guide" to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, by the newspaper that broke the story.

Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo, Errol Louis
Editors from Newsweek/Daily Beast, The Daily and NY1 celebrate "the relevance" of the newspaper column with this anthology of "an American art form."

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
by Brian Kellow
A decade after her death, Pauline Kael "remains the most important figure in film criticism," in part due to the enormous influence she exerted at The New Yorker.

And Nothing but the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert
by Lisa Rogak
Who is Stephen Colbert really? Biographer Lisa Rogak examines the man behind the "Daily Show" character, revealing the roots of Colbert's humor as she charts his rise to celebrity.

Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
The release of this much-anticipated biography was moved up following the death of the Apple co-founder. Author Walter Isaacson is a former managing editor of Time magazine.

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
by Richard Brandt
Businessweek former tech writer Richard Brandt charts the career of Amazon founder/CEO Jeff Bezos, from "computer nerd to world-changing entrepreneur."

Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
by Robert Levine
Robert Levine, a former top editor of Billboard magazine, "dissects the current climate of the struggling American media companies caught in the fiscal grip of the digital industry."

The Innovator's Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
by Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson rounds up insights from the likes of Google's Marisa Mayer and Twitter's Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey for this "foundational text" on the subject of innovation.

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
by Jeff Jarvis
Despite the warnings of privacy advocates, the Internet and our new sense of publicness do not make us more vulnerable to threats, argues media blogger Jeff Jarvis.

The Ascent of Media: From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenberg
by Roger Parry
Roger Parry traces mankind's journey from clay tablets to Apple's iPad. Traditional media is not declining, he asserts. Instead, it is "on the cusp of a new era in which it will evolve and thrive."

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
by Mark Bauerlein
This collection of essays on the perils and promise of social media rounds up writings by Steven Johnson, Douglas Rushkoff, Clay Shirky and other top thinkers.

The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution
by Brian Solis
Altimeter Group principal Brian Solis explores "each layer of the complex consumer revolution that is changing the future of business, media and culture."

Madboy: My Journey from Adboy to Adman
by Richard Kirshenbaum
Richard Kirshenbaum, the "quirky, fun and loquacious" co-founder of the Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners agency, writes about his adventures in advertising.

Piers Morgan: The Biography
by Emily Herbert
This new biography promises to tell "the real story" behind the man who scored one of the biggest gigs in U.S. television -- replacing Larry King on CNN.

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
This "definitive, revealing and amazingly well-reported" account of MTV's first decade features interviews with nearly 400 music artists, directors, VJs, and TV and music execs.

Life Itself: A Memoir
by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert tells the story of his life and career, including his friendship with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, his battle with thyroid cancer and his work at the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy
by Deborah Davis
This $50 coffee-table book celebrates 25 years of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," with essays from a group of big-name contributors ranging from Maya Angelou to John Travolta.

From Yesterday to TODAY: Six Decades of Historical Moments, Unforgettable Segments, and Newsmaking Interviews
by Stephen Battaglio
TV Guide's Stephen Battaglio tells the story of NBC's "Today," as the morning show turns 60, through snapshots of key world events and hundreds of photos.

The Newslife: From Arkansas to Aruba
by Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen offers an "unvarnished account" of the development of TV news, "laden with characters from Damon Runyon types to the legendary Bill Paley."

The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire
by Stewart Pinkerton
Stewart Pinkerton, a former managing editor of Forbes magazine, promises to reveal the "hubris, greed, personal quirks and awful decisions that helped bring down a media icon."

My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir
by Mark Whitaker
Mark Whitaker, CNN managing editor and former Newsweek editor in chief, offers a "deeply personal, instructive and unsparing" account of his life in a bi-racial American family.

A Matter of Principle
by Conrad Black
Conrad Black, the imprisoned newspaper baron, "writes without reserve about the prosecutors who mounted a campaign to destroy him and the journalists who presumed he was guilty."

Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal
by Warren H. Phillips
Warren Phillips, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal and CEO of Journal owner Dow Jones & Co., offers insights about American business, politics and journalism.

Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson
by Amanda Smith
The story of Medill heiress Cissy Patterson, the 20th century's first major female editor in chief, is "filled with more backstabbing and decadence than a season of 'Dynasty.'"

The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor
by Megan McKinney
Journalist Megan McKinney's "wonderfully researched' study of Chicago's McCormick-Patterson newspaper dynasty "reads almost like a rich historical novel."

Harper's Bazaar: Greatest Hits
by Glenda Bailey, Stephen Gan
Harper's Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey highlights the "epic moments" from her 10 years at the helm of the Hearst fashion magazine in this new book.

Carine Roitfeld: Irreverent
by Carine Roitfeld
Carine Roitfeld, former editor of French Vogue, provides a view into her creative thought process via a selection of 250 magazine tear sheets and covers from pivotal shoots.

Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers Are Creators
by Steven Rosenbaum
Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of video aggregator Magnify.net, has written "an indispensible guide to the brave new media world," according to Arianna Huffington.

The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia media studies and law professor, "exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property."

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
Wired magazine's Steven Levy explores Google's groundbreaking search engine and profitable online ad-brokering business, with full cooperation of the Internet giant's top management.

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards
Doug Edwards, Google employee No. 59, offers the first inside view of the Internet behemoth, revealing the company's "bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition."

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser
Websites from Google to Yahoo News are now increasingly personalized, notes MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser. "They filter information to show you the stuff they think you want to see."

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle
MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact, despite all the talk of connection via texts, e-mails and social networks.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
James Gleick shows how today's deluge of "news, images, blogs and tweets" has become the modern era's defining quality -- "the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world."

Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website
by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman of WikiLeaks, reveals never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the increasingly controversial organization.

Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War, and American Diplomacy
by New York Times
"Open Secrets" offers a collection of the New York Times's reporting and analysis of WikiLeaks, as well as a chronicle of the controversial release of classified U.S. documents.

The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers
by James O'Shea
Veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea goes behind the decisions that led to disaster in newspaper boardrooms and newsrooms.

Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism
by David Folkenflik
Expanding on Andrew Rossi's documentary film "Page One," David Folkenflik convenes some of the smartest media savants to talk about the present and the future of news.

The Comics: The Complete Collection
by Brian Walker
"Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois" cartoon man Brian Walker has amassed more than a century of strips, including rare examples provided by the artists themselves.

Tabloid City
by Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill's latest newspaper-world novel features murder and mayhem, "but the real victim in his book is the print journalism that Hamill knows and loves so well."

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
NPR "On the Media" cohost Brooke Gladstone provides an analysis of contemporary journalism via a graphic format described as "playful and reader friendly."

Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
by Ben Shapiro
Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro promises to reveal how "the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history has become a propaganda tool for the Left."

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
A "wild, smart, effervescent look" at the history of the ESPN television empire, packed with "entertaining stories of unpleasant people and awful behavior."

Transparent
by Don Lemon
CNN anchor Don Lemon details his struggle to become one of the most prominent African American men in TV news and acknowledges publicly that he is gay.

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
by Katie Couric
Former "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric collects insights from public figures, ranging from Malcolm Gladwell and Jimmy Kimmel to Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright.

Bossypants
by Tina Fey
NBC "30 Rock" creator/star Tina Fey serves up "a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor and self-deprecation."

Be Your Own Best Publicist
by Jessica Kleiman and Meryl Weinsaft Cooper
Hearst Magazines public relations VP Jessica Kleiman is the co-author of this book, offering "humorous, informative" anecdotes on using PR tactics to help boost your career.

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