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Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema    by Nick Dager
Price: $1.99 USD. 73650 words. Published on June 3, 2010. .

In May 1999 Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace opened with digital screenings in a handful of movie theatres in and around New York and Los Angeles: digital cinema’s first decade was underway. An eyewitness to all the challenges and changes taking place, Nick Dager, founder of the website Digital Cinema Report, chronicles the people who are using new technology to reinvent cinema.
Your Colossal Main Feature Plus Full Supporting Program: Over 175 Classic Hollywood Movies Examined    by John Howard Reid
Price: $3.99 USD. 90730 words. Published on April 5, 2011. .

Many colossal main features are reviewed in this book. But until recently, such movies were not enough to satisfy patrons. They also wanted a supporting film, shorts and cartoons. So here are detailed not only main attractions like High Noon, Jezebel, Merry Widow, Zorro, A Star Is Born, Rio Rita, Great Waltz, but lesser movies that audiences also demanded. Many of these are now available on DVD.
A Stratford Jewel    by Marina Oliver
Price: $6.99 USD. 99020 words. Published on July 23, 2011. .

Rosa and her sister Celia long to become professional actresses, and do appear in the Shakespeare Festival Plays. When the Stratford-on-Avon theatre burns down their hopes seem dashed. Max, an American architect, is interested in the competition to design the new theatre, while Rosa's brother Jack, home from the war, becomes more and more strange, and damages their haulage business.
Player's Wench    by Marina Oliver
Price: $3.99 USD. 45750 words. Published on January 19, 2012. .

Mr Atwell, a prosperous City merchant, is angry when his middle daughter, Honour, shows a preference for Robert Reade, and longs to visit the new Theatre. He plans to marry her to a suitably Puritan husband. Honour goes with her father's apprentice to Drury Lane, and is delighted with the play, but disaster brings Gervase Dunstone into her life and alters it for ever.
Mischief in 'The Mousetrap'    by Duncan Watt
Price: $0.99 USD. 71420 words. Published on March 7, 2012. .

In this, the eighth in the Wallace Boys series, Nigel and Bruce leave Africa and go to the United Kingdom. They immediately fall into an adventure in London, giving Scotland Yard a helping hand along the way!
A Muse Of Fire (The Artistic Muse Series)    by Joshua Combes
Price: $4.99 USD. 60440 words. Published on August 5, 2012. .

Josh, a playwright, has a problem with filtering his creativity into unproductive areas. Clio, an ancient muse, has fed off the creative flow of artists for centuries. If Josh doesn’t get inspired soon she will surely starve. In desperation, Clio resorts to unconventional methods, taking them both on a mind-bending journey to the dangerous, competitive and charmed world of the Elizabethan player.
ActingSmarts Reviews Local and Regional Theatre    by Jack Shaw
Price: $0.99 USD. 23150 words. Published on October 24, 2012. .

Why should we review local and regional professional theatres at all? After all it's just an opinion. But it should be an educated one, and this book shows by example reviewing at its constructive best. What makes a good critic or reviewer? Aren't they the same thing? Check it out here for yourself.