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Borders' demise isn't all good news for smaller booksellers Sacramento Bee By Hudson Sangree "Every independent bookseller in the country is talking about it," said Bill Senecal, manager of Beers Books on S Street in Sacramento. "The book industry is in a real state of flux," he said. "The remaining independent bookstores are ... | ||
Fantasy's big new 'Dance' Inquirer.net Since then, there have been other fantasy authors who have vied for “LOTR”-level acceptance. The series of books that comes closest to Tolkien's masterpiece would have to be George RR Martin's “A Song of Ice and Fire,” a series that has sold millions ... | ||
Nimbus reissues popular heritage books TheChronicleHerald.ca Authors Terry James and Bill Plaskett joined their special expertises — James is a photographer, Plaskett a historical conservation planner — together to collaborate on this visual celebration of all that is unique in the oldest parts of Lunenburg. ... | ||
I Used to Write Books... Huffington Post (blog) I used to write books. Now, I write Facebooks. Somehow it is not the same. There was a time when being sequestered in a room was not that difficult. When I wrote my first book there was nothing really on TV at 3 am. Netflix was not. ... | ||
Twixl Publisher Makes Publishing iPad Apps Easier What They Think He is very satisfied with the possibilities Twixl Publisher offers: "The e-publishing market is about far more than just converting books, magazines and newspapers," he continues. "With digital publishing solutions, companies can reach an unlimited ... | ||
Five Best Ebook Readers Lifehacker Australia The Apple iPad isn't strictly an ereader, but it certainly can be, with the help of Apple's iBooks and the ability to sideload ebooks through alternative ebook stores that can be installed on the iPad and loaded up with books and documents that can be ... | ||
Sunday books: Oscar Hijuelos, donning the veil and more Los Angeles Times In Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Hector Tobar finds Oscar Hijuelos' memoir "Thoughts Without Cigarettes" "deeply affecting." The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love" revisits his multicultural New York childhood and later ... | ||
World's largest floating library arriives in India Daily News & Analysis Operated by 'Google Books for All' (GBA) ships, which is an international charitable organisation based in Germany, Logos Hope is the biggest among all of the four GBA ships. This is the third time in 40 years that a GBA ship has visited India. ... | ||
All-time Authors Sometimes Deliver Duds Huffington Post (blog) John Steinbeck wrote books such as the masterful The Grapes of Wrath, the mesmerizing East of Eden, the delightful Tortilla Flat, and the late-career gem The Winter of Our Discontent. But he also authored the mid-career dud Burning Bright. ... | ||
Weekend book festival brings visitors to Belfast WLBZ-TV Area authors set up shop at many stores to sign and talk about their books with readers. The event also provided a good boost for several new book stores in the city. Store owners say despite Borders closing down and technology bringing reading to a ... | ||
Nikol Faridani's widow to donate his books to World Food Program Iran Book News Agency Tehran Times: The widow of Iranian photographer Nikol Faridani will donate some of his rare books to the UN World Food Program on the occasion of World Photography Day on August 19. “Nikol Faridani was in love with taking photos of nature and people ... | ||
Used book trend picks up speed Delmarva Daily Times Used books are still a relatively small segment of the publishing market, but booksellers around the country say they're either holding their own or growing in the age of ebooks and the bankruptcy of Borders. In coastal Sussex County, ... | ||
News & Notes: Atlanta vs. Dallas, Tilton's Comeback, Recalling Taylors Books ... Dallas Observer (blog) Our destination: Taylors Books, whose heyday is recalled by a former employee in this BlogCritics.org flashback prompted by the shuttering of Borders. Writes ToddT: One of the best jobs I ever had was working in customer service at an old-style ... | ||
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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch: And now a word from the authors themselves Tallahassee Democrat (blog) In a world where politicians are the problem, independents — and independence — are the future. — Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch write for Reason magazine and are the co-authors of "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix ... | ||
No longer just for bookworms Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Most still offer rooms full of books, but added to the paper are computer stations, e-books and Wi-Fi. Libraries also are offering programs and services – knitting groups and social networking, for example – that extend far beyond the traditional scope ... | ||
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Books of Wonder launch party for 'Wildefire' by Karsten Knight Examiner.com Karsten Knight joined the ranks of many new authors on July 30th, 2011 when he arrived at Books of Wonder for the New York launch party of his debut novel Wildefire, an adventurous, often dark though plenty funny story about a Polynesian goddess who's ... |
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