"Pandora For Books" BookLamp Launches


"Pandora For Books" BookLamp Launches Today
Paste Magazine
Booklamp.org went live earlier today, offering a free service similar to the wildly popular Pandora Internet radio service, but for books. The story of BookLamp, the brainchild of 29-year-old Aaron Stanton, began back in 2003 when he and other students ...
First Look At Charlize Theron In 'Young Adult': Actual YA Authors Write In
MTV.com
and we do read some of the same books (Kelley Armstrong, I'm looking at you...) so I get it. I'm just not sure being a YA writer is about time travel as much as it is a point of view." —Margaret Stohl, author of "Icons" and co-author of "Beautiful ...
Weaving memories into handmade books
Los Angeles Times
On a whim I took a class on making cased-in books with hard spines, and when I looked at the finished product I was astounded, as if I'd made a car with my bare hands. I say that not to brag, since I completely credit the teacher with my success. ...
Kathryn Stockett and Janet Evanovich join the Kindle Million Club
USA Today
By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY In further proof (as if it were needed) that e-booksare doing booming business, two new authors have joined the Kindle Million Club, selling more than 1 million copies each of their books in the Kindle store, according to...
BBC Worldwide sells magazine division
Financial Times
By Salamander Davoudi BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, is moving away from magazine publishing via two deals totalling £121m ($198m) to sell its business that controls Radio Times, and  its stake in an Indian publisher. ...
Getting Free E-books From The Library
FOX 9 News
Libraries all over the state have electronic books available to check out for your digital reader device. Here's how it works: 1. Pick a library that supports e-books on their website – you'll find them at Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington, ...
Game On: Two New Books Traffic in Nostalgia for '80s Video Game Culture
Wired News
Differing both in approach and success level, two new books — Ernest Cline's dystopian sci-fi novel Ready Player One (Crown, 374 pp. $24.00) and Jeff Ryan's historical reportage Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (Portfolio, 292 pp.,...
PR LEADS Helps Boston Leadership Consultant Get Book Publishing Contract
PR Newswire (press release)
"Publicity helps authors in several ways. First, the articles bring your name and topic to the attention of publishing editors who are always looking for the next big thing," said Janal, who has written six books on Internet Publicity and Internet ...
Books and Backpacks From Blackstone
New York Times (blog)
This year, Blackstone's logo-emblazoned bags included books like “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen, “Clifford the Big Red Dog” by Norman Bridwell, books by Dr. Seuss, and “The Hunger Games” series by Suzanne Collins. (Oddly, no student was given ...
Hooked on books by poor boy and his cat
Independent Online
Despite the current buzz that publishing directly to the Web will dispense with traditional publishing and ignore great book editors' role to improve and craft authors' manuscripts, Johnson believes books, book editors and book publishers have never ...
Apple, Publishers Sued Over Ebook Price Conspiracy
InformationWeek
Apple, the complaint asserts, conspired with its publishing partners to "cut into Amazon's substantial share of the market for ebooks and to prevent Amazon from emerging as a serious competitor to its mobile platforms for distribution, storage, ...
Quarto chief is upbeat about future of books
Evening Standard
Orbach pointed out that the vast majority of books that Quarto publishes do not lend themselves to the eBook format because they are heavily illustrated or are "how to"books such as cookery and gardening titles. He said: "We are watching developments...
Self-Published Success Maria Murnane Offers Valuable Help to New Authors
Huffington Post
A representative contacted her, telling her they wished to edit and republish her book as part of its new publishing arm, AmazonEncore, which was launched in order to give quality, overlooked self-published books a bigger promotional push. ...
Nook for Android: A must-have for avid readers
Computerworld
Never fear: Nook for Android by Barnes & Noble turns your phone into a (smaller) e-reader for free -- though you'll have to buy your own ebooks. Nook for Android takes Barnes & Noble's Nook concept and delivers it to Android devices. ...
Why are schools still banning books?
Pacific Daily News
In a column for the Springfield News-Leader headlined "Filthy books demeaning to Republic education," he wrote: "This is a book that contains so much profane language, it would make a sailor blush with shame. The 'F-word' is plastered on almost every ...
Bestselling books the week of 8/18/11, according to IndieBound*
Christian Science Monitor
*Published Thursday, August 18, 2011 (for the sales week ended Sunday, August 14, 2011). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org Prime ...
5 Fantasy Books to Read While You're Waiting for the Next 'Game of Thrones'
The Atlantic
After years of waiting, fans of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books burned through the latest in the series, A Dance with Dragons, when it was released last month. It had been five years since the previous book, A Feast for Crows, ...
Necrological literature: Thailand's 'funeral books' | CNNGo.com
By Richard S. Ehrlich
Necrological literature may sound morbid and vampirish, but Thailand's wealthy elite society and humbler proud people are writing, publishing and reading millions of nostalgic "funeral memorybooks" for free. ...
CNNGo.com
3quarksdaily: Overrated: Authors, critics, and editors on "great ...
By Azra Raza
Overrated: Authors, critics, and editors on "great books" that aren't all that great. From Slate: Bannedbooks_catcherrye Tom Perrotta, author most recently of The Leftovers. On a recent episode of South Park, the kids got all excited ...
3quarksdaily
Amazon Now Removing "Private Label" e-Books - HotHardware
Amazon has announced that it will begin cracking down on authors who upload so-called "private label rights" e-books via the Kindle Direct Publishing service. According to an email sent to theauthors of titles that were removed, ...
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Boise-based startup BookLamp looks at books a different way ...
Our goal is to attract publishers to the project, to recruit the world of publishing. Our biggest criticism of our own tools is that we need more books in the system; we're hoping the people using the tools will encourage publishers to ...
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Google to Buy Motorola, "Strengthen Android Ecosystem ...
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eBooks For Indie Rock Musicians « eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
To help forge the bond, we've put together a list of 5 eBooks for indie rock musicians. The titles, which are all available in eBook format, give tips on how to make it as an indie band, many of which emerging authors can use. ... The information that we found useful was scattered in different magazines, books, and all over the Internet. After doing all of that research, and going through the inevitable issues that a band faces, we decided to write about what goes on ...
eBookNewser
For the Love of Books | Sects and Violence in the Ancient World
By Steve Wiggins
Acquired by Taylor & Francis in 1998, Routledge still pursues and produces notable academic booksin many fields of the humanities and social sciences. The company is a testimony of the strength of vision of a man with a love of books...
Sects and Violence in the Ancient World
BookLamp Launches a Pandora For Books - Technology News ...
By doug
The technology behind BookLamp has been used primarily in the publishing process. It can, for instance, help publishers refine their targeting and marketing if they can figure out who responded to similar books in the past. ...
Technology News - TechNewscast
Can Textbooks be Replaced By E-Books? (Poll) | TechnoBuffalo
By Emily Price
Can e-books finally replace all of those heavy textbooks you lug to class?
TechnoBuffalo

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