| Sharing books on Google+ Los Angeles Times Google+ users -- you know who you are -- can share links to books with their friends. Particularly those that appear in Google Books. Many of these are available to purchase as ebooks. Simply click on the Google+ Share box on the About the Book page or ... | ||
| Books-A-Million Enters Fredericksburg, VA Market as Borders Exits MarketWatch (press release) The Fredericksburg store, Books-A-Million's 235th nationwide and 18th in Virginia, is tentatively scheduled to open on August 18. "We've always recognized that the community we serve at Towne Centre demands a first-class book store," said Joe Bell, ... | ||
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| The Bookish Life: Weaving memories into handmade books Los Angeles Times (Glenn Scott / Quarry Books) By Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times I made my first book about 17 years ago, a feat I consider a miracle. 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 ... | ||
| Schools, beware the e-book bandwagon Kansas City Star By NICHOLAS CARR Print books have an important advantage over digital ones, encouraging more attentive reading. And if there's anything in short supply among students these days, it's attentiveness. When it comes to trendy new computer technologies, ... | ||
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| How-To Books Created For The iPad paidContent.org Most of the interactive iPad books published up to now have been for kids, but the first title from Open Air Publishing is decidedly adult. Speakeasy Cocktails: Learn From the Modern Mixologists, out today as a $9.99 iPad app, features video tutorials, ... | ||
| UK bans one of 'Torat Hamelech' authors Jerusalem Post By JONAH MANDEL One of the two authors of Torat Hamelech has been prohibited from entering the United Kingdom in accordance with “the British government's measures for excluding or deporting extremists,” while the other is professing that the recent ... | ||
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| BNA Books Announces the Publication of "Global Employee Privacy and Data ... PR Newswire (press release) 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, today announced the publication of the Second Edition of Global Employee Privacy and Data Security Law. This treatise thoroughly analyzes the ... | ||
| Battle of the books Hamilton Spectator E-Books Michael Ciccone, director of collections at the Hamilton Public Library, says he is surprised at the demand for e-books. On a recent Go bus trip from Hamilton to Toronto, more than half the approximately 50 passengers had their noses buried in ... | ||
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| 'Potter' Director: We need more books! CNN (blog) But before Columbus plans Potter's future big-screen endeavors, “There's a whole other slew of books that I think could be written if JK Rowling can be persuaded," he says. "So we'll see what happens. I hope we see those books. ... | ||
| How Blurb Tapped Into the Burgeoning Self-Publishing Industry Mashable And it's a privilege every day, and an inspiration every day to see the range of creative expression in the books that people make from all over the world. Blurb is already a winner, because every day we're giving voice to people all over the world ... | ||
| Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on "great books" that aren't great. Slate Magazine Thomas Hardy Because philistinism loves company, I asked a number of authors, critics, and editors, to confess their least favorite "must read." Below, James Joyce, JD Salinger, whoever's responsible for Beowulf, and other beloved writers take a ... | ||
| 'The Help,' 'One Day': The Best Books Turned Movies (PHOTOS) Huffington Post The stories behind some of those books-to-movies on your list are pretty interesting -- Cuckoo's Nest was narrated by "Chief" but the movie is clearly from MacMurphy's point of view (and supposedly Ken Kesey refused to see the film); the Godfather was ... | ||
| Matthew Yglesias dives into ebooks with “The Rent Is Too Damn High ... By Justin Ellis That either says something about the dense nature of land-use regulation and home ownership on a legislative and policy level, or it's a statement on the traditional forms of the publishing indu. ... The liberal political blogger is joining the ranks of short-form ebooks authors with The Rent Is Too Damn High. (Note: The catchy and zeitgeist-inspired title is a working title.) The book, which will be published digitally by Simon & Schuster, will be somewhere in the ... Nieman Journalism Lab | ||
| 15 Awesome Pop Up Books By Jill Harness Pop Up books are largely considered children's territory, but WebUrbanist has a great selection of 3D books that grown ups can enjoy too. I certainly would enjoy getting my hands on some of these. How about you guys? ... Neatorama | ||
| Three authors, three examples of the disruption in publishing ... By Cyndy Aleo While at the recent Comic-Con convention, I attended a number of panels featuring a wide range ofauthors — some whose books aren't even out yet, and some who have been part of the publishingindustry for decades. ... GigaOM — Tech News, Analysis... | ||
| Cozy Chicks: Books, Resurrected By Ellery Adams But ebooks give our canceled series second lives. Sure, we might only sell 5000 copies instead of the 20000 the publisher was hoping for, but we'll take it. Heck, the books might catch fire and sell 50000 copies! You never know. ... Cozy Chicks | ||
| Can Books Bridge Political and Religious Divides? | Publishing ... By Edward Nawotka There is simply no better way to bridge a cultural divide than through books, a wide variety translations from around the world. Publishing Perspectives | ||
| Cynsations: Guest Post: Goddess Girls authors Joan Holub and ... By Cynthia Leitich Smith a source for conversations, publishing information, writer resources & inspiration, bookseller-librarian-teacher appreciation, children's-YA book news & author outreach ... We've also started to do more virtual visits with classrooms and book clubs through Skype Authors. And we both do occasional in-store book signings too. (3) It's just possible that we write middle grade books better as a team than we do as individuals. A favorite reviewer of ours thinks so, ... Cynsations | ||
| HarperCollins Says eBooks Make Up 19% Of U.S. Sales - eBookNewser By Dianna Dilworth While the company did not break out income for book publishing specifically, the company did report that its publishing division (which includes newspapers), had a full year segment operating income of $864 million. ... eBooks and children's books helped HarperCollins have a profitable fourth quarter. Publishers Weekly has more: “Harper said in a brief statement that it 'ended the year with a profitable quarter and exceeded its plan for the year.' They say the children's ... eBookNewser | ||
| How to make audio books work for you — Marginal Revolution By Tyler Cowen I find I 'zone out' to audio books a bit* so I prefer books I have already read but enjoy and want to listen to as a background, but where it won't matter if I stop listening to 5 mins here or there. *this may well just be me and is not ..... (1) Books whose authors intended that they be read aloud are usually good, e.g., the Iliad. Some modern authors keep this in mind too. Per the man himself, Orson Scott Card's books are meant to be read aloud. (2) The readers matter. ... Marginal Revolution |
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