Hipster Lit

Hipster Lit  --The Hipster Lit section at Bookhampton : Last weekend, I went to Sag Harbor, which is more or less a Hampton and so has its own branch of Bookhampton, the main (indie) bookstore chain out there. Bookhampton has many well-curated special sections, but one in particular caught my eye . . .
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Books-A-Million to Replace Borders in Erie, PA
MarketWatch (press release)
The Erie store, Books-A-Million's 231st store nationwide and 6th in Pennsylvania, is tentatively scheduled to open on August 18. "Books-A-Million is a great fit for Millcreek Mall," said Joe Bell, Director of Corporate Communications for The Cafaro ...
Southern Festival of Books has Nashville flair
The Tennessean
The festival features authors from all genres from literary to children's books. Frazier comes to Nashville with a new book, Nightwoods. Mosley's most recent mystery, The Long Fall, was a New York Times best-seller. Barron is the author of Merlin Saga, ...
Half Price Books hiring laid-off Borders staffers
Los Angeles Times
Half Price Books, the brick-and-mortar bookseller that offers new and used books at discount prices, is ready to snap up newly unemployed Borders employees. "I wanted to let you know that Half PriceBooks would like to encourage Borders employees to ...
Strong New Yorker iPad app sales promising for digital publishing
VentureBeat
Publishers have struggled with trying to make money off digital publishing since the dawn of the Internet. But The New Yorker's iPad app, which has had strong sales compared to its peers, might be a model to look to when it comes to successfully ...
10 books you really should have read in high school
msnbc.com
But there's a reason your English teacher pleaded with you to read these books. Crack them open or download them to an e-reader and get reacquainted with the likes of Jay Gatsby, Hester Prynne, and, indeed, Mr. Darcy. The first-ever 24-hour music ...
Schroders urges Charter to open its books to Melrose
Scotsman
By Perry Gourley SCHRODERS, the investment manager which last year put pressure on Dana Petroleum to open its books to South Korean suitor KNOC, raised the stakes yesterday in a similar stand-off between Charter International and potential bidder ...
Books by the Bay: From sexy seniors to 'French Lessons'
San Jose Mercury News
By Georgia Rowe Five new nonfiction titles -- and two notable novels -- highlight this month's new releases by Bay Area authors. "Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara" by Colleen Morton Busch (Penguin Press, 256 pages, $25.95). ...
California Announces Free Unlimited Access to Online eBook Program for Young ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Available at http://bookflix.scholastic.com or through library websites across the state, BookFlix pairs award-winning video based on some of the best-selling children's picture books of all time produced by Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks ...
Customs tightens rules on imported books
GMANews.TV
The directive also includes books and raw materials under Republic Act 8047 or the BookPublishing Industry Development Act. Similarly covered is the importation of books by non-stock and non-profit educational institutions. “The Florence Agreement ...
KIDZ BOP Hits the Books!
PR Newswire (press release)
She's also the editor of TVScreener.com and the author of five books. When Bethany Bryan isn't writing, she's reading books, hanging out at the pool, or going to the movies. She has previously written books for Rosen Publishing and Scholastic. ...
Things Amazon Should Tell Us About the Kindle
Fox News
I use all of these ways to read Kindle books, but it's a very disjointed means of accessing my digital library. Convenient? Yes. Elegant? No. When you read a Kindle book on various platforms, it barely feels as though you're in the same system. ...
E-books cause consternation for librarian
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The ongoing economic crisis may be dampening consumer purchasing of electronic devices, and print book publishing is still flourishing, but Pew's articles and the ballyhoo surrounding e-booksgenerally is causing consternation for many print-book ...
10 Essential Books on Typography
The Atlantic
Today, we turn to 10 essential books on typography, ranging from the practical to the philosophical to the plain pretty. In 1967, iconic typography pioneer Emil Ruder penned Typographie: A Manual of Design—a bold deviation from the conventions of his ...
Book Marketing: How 4 Authors Are Finding Success With Social Media
Mashable
If you're a new writer who's looking ahead to a seemingly daunting publishing task, take a tip from Toronto writer Blake Northcott. She recently self-published Vs. Reality, a work she's calling a “comic book-inspired urban fantasy novel. ...
Zimbabwe: Books Pivotal in National Development - Dokora
AllAfrica.com
BOOKS, and literature in general, have a pivotal role to play in the development of a nation, a Government minister has noted. This was said by the Deputy Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Lazaraus Dokora, during the official opening of ...
Take steps to distribute necessary books to students
IBNLive.com
PTI | 11:08 PM,Aug 01,2011 Coimbatore, Aug 1 (PTI) BJP's Tamil Nadu unit today asked the state government to take steps to distribute necessary books under Uniform System of Education (USE) as students have been suffering for the last one month. ...
10 Essential Books on Typography | Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
10 Essential Books on Typography. by Maria Popova. What Arab culture has to do with industrial ideals, midcentury design and Victorian hand-lettering. Whether you're a professional designer, recreational type-nerd, or casual lover of the .... 1, from lavish-book-purveyor Taschen, explores the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a sharp focus on the golden age of color catalogs, the period from the mid-19th century ...
Brain Pickings
NEWS: Scandalous Books On Chanel & Gaga
By Meghan Gleason
A new biography on Coco Chanel, set to come out in November, claims the fashion icon dated a Nazi, experimented with drugs, was bi-sexual, and had an affair with Salvador DalĂ­. {WWD} Can't wait to get your hands on the.
ELLE Dispatch
How Fear of Disruption Stalled Japan's E-book Development ...
By Edward Nawotka
Japan's book distribution system is unique, and perhaps the most influential factor in publishers' reluctance to embrace e-books. In 1953, the Japanese publishing industry established fixed pricing for books and magazines. ...
Publishing Perspectives
Dear Bully: 70 authors' personal bullying stories | MNN - Mother ...
By Jenn Savedge
New book offers 70 personal bullying stories to let young readers know that a bad situation will get better.
Lighter Footstep
T.R. Knight Books First TV Role Since 'Grey's Anatomy'
By Jean Bentley
After T.R. Knight's highly publicized exit from 'Grey's Anatomy' in 2009, the actor has stuck to stage roles in the ensuing two years. Now, the.
AOL TV
Thrill of the Case: Publishing a Legal Bestseller - News - ABA Journal
Joining me are Robert Barnett, a partner with Williams & Connolly who represents authors, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George Bush; Jonathan Karp, the executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster; ... Great books often come from incredible experiences, and many lawyers have more than a few. But don't get your hopes up, says noted lawyer and literary representative Robert Barnett. With those experiences must come great story-telling skills, ...
ABA Journal Daily News
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Books on Paris and the French
By Beth Arnold
HuffPost's QuickRead... Loading... HuffPost's QuickRead... Loading... EDITION: U.S.. CA Canada US United States UK United Kingdom. Book Publishing; Book Reviews; eBooks; Literary Prizes. NYR Blackberry 101 More ... Since I have lived in France, I've read a big stack of books about the history of France as well as the expat experience, not to mention novels that have been penned to capture it. There seems to be an unending supply. When I put the word "Paris" into the ...
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Flavorwire » Yuppie Lit: Books About The Filthy Rich
By Kathleen Massara
Flavorwire: Cultural news and critique from Flavorpill.
Flavorwire
“Thrones” Could Depart From Books — Slice of SciFi
By Michael Hickerson
“I don't know where the show will end, as opposed to the books,” he told the Television Critics Association. “It would be fantastic to be able to say this show will go on for 10 years, and do every aspect of the books. ...
Slice of SciFi
Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing | Information ...
By Meredith Farkas
By choosing not to take any action on things like this (either as members of organizations or writers/reviewers/editors for these journals), faculty perpetuate the scholarly publishing crisis. Eventually, Norwich may not be able to ...
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