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iReadNet Message, iReadNet Going Dark. iReadNet, home of a thousand authors, ten thousand video clips, and hundreds more still in the can, is suspending operations indefinitely in the coming weeks after fifteen years of free service to the publishing industry. iReadNet covered book fairs and author readings, lectures and interviews, including the Miami Book Fair International, the National Book Fair, BookExpo America, the Gothenburg Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair, New York Comic Con, C2E2, university and bookstore events. The site was designed to sell books, sponsorships, web information and services around the globe. iReadNet and its video news network of kids books, cookbooks, adult fiction and non-fiction channels, attracted thousands of visitors around the globe every day. iReadNet is looking for a strategic partnership and hoping to re-tool the site with new technologies.

Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have one at The Last Kind Words Saloon in Miami. Award-winning novelist and co-author Diana Ossana reflect on cowboys, women characters, and over twenty years of writing partnership.

Liz Gutman and Jen King offer a 'liddabit' of sweet talk with Heather McPherson and Yvan Lemoine. Candy entrepreneurs Liz Gutman and Jen King brought their confectionery talents to the 2012 Miami Book Fair International, along with food journalist Heather McPherson and Food Network TV's chef Yvan Lemoine for an exploration of gourmet, regional, and ethnic food innovation.

Eliot Schrefer weaves monkeys and apes into tales of survival and discovery for kids. Author of both Adult and Young Adult fiction, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature Eliot Schrefer gets up close and personal with bonobos, chimps, and orangutans to illuminate human behavior for Young Adults.

Natalie Merchant signs off on her first children's book, Leave Your Sleep. Singer-songwriter-musician Natalie Merchant signs her first children's book, adapted from her acclaimed folk album, Leave Your Sleep.