Story of the week: Digital publishing

Story of the week: Digital publishing Financial Times (blog) Push Pop stated on its blog that Facebook “isn't planning to start publishing digital books.” However, both the New York Times' Bits blog and PCWorld speculated that there could be an opportunity. “Facebook could leverage its millions of users for a ...

Vonnegut banned: Will we ever stop to think? Indianapolis Star Last week, the school board of Republic, Mo., voted 4-0 to ban two books, one of them Indianapolis native Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughter-House Five." The vote came in response to a complaint lodged by a resident named Wesley Scroggins, who home schools his ...

Best personal finance books for Canadians Global Edmonton With foreign governments in financial turmoil and global markets tumbling, we pick the 5 best personal finance books for Canadians. The US and European debt crises have sent world markets tumbling, and nervous investors running for the hills, ...

Niantic: Beaches and Books Patch.com Up the road is the original location, where books are housed in, yes, a large barn, but also in tents, miniature houses, and other structures that have to be seen to be fully appreciated. While searching for a novel or some nonfiction on any imaginable ...

Adam Hargreaves: 'The Mr Men will always be part of me' Telegraph.co.uk He wrote some 46 Mr Mens and 33 Little Miss books, which illustrated a simple, humorous tale about the trait in each character's name. Pocket-sized, they originally cost just 15p each, were an instant collectible hit, and have made Hargreaves the UK's...

Feel the love Sydney Morning Herald For starters, anyone concerned about the state of the publishing industry and the book trade should be leading the charge to embrace the success story that is romantic fiction. They are keeping the rest of those highbrow authors and readers afloat, ... Sydney Morning Herald

PowerHouse Books to Publish Vivian Maier: Street Photographer Art Daily Geoff Dyer's books include But Beautiful (Picador, 2009), Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (Vintage, 2004), The Ongoing Moment (Vintage, 2007) winner of the ICP Infinity Award for writing on photography, the novels Paris Trance (Picador, ...

Bookmarks: Recently-released books Deseret News A public defender's ex-boyfriend drops in out of the blue and asks for her help to prove the innocence of their client in a World War II-era case that includes a love triangle, a missing clock, the unknown fate of a daughter and long-held secrets as ...

William Sleator, Fantasy Writer for Young Adults, Dies at 66 New York Times By MARGALIT FOX William Sleator, a writer for young people whose books pitted their heroes against aliens, ghouls and slimy things, not to mention the most malevolent rivals of all — siblings — died on Wednesday in Bua Chet, Thailand. He was 66. ...

Tablet or tome? Sydney Morning Herald It's the internet that devours books now. E-publishing has been heartily embraced by readers; one estimate suggests at least 30 million users will buy an e-book this year on the iPad alone. How does the digital experience really compare? ...

Burien Books Hosts Booksigning for International Correspondent Scott Peterson The B-Town Blog (blog) Burien Books is hosting a book signing for Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran – A Journey behind the Headlines on Thursday August 11th from 4-6pm and talk by author Scott Peterson. Scott Peterson is the Christian Science Monitor's Istanbul Bureau Chief ...

Healing Hurting Hearts books teach principles to children Tulsa World Perla Boggs displays some of the illustrations in her Healing Hurting Hearts books series. Courtesy By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer SKIATOOK - Modern society is full of dangers for children, says Perla Boggs, Skiatook author and illustrator of 10 ...

Never-ending list of good books just keeps growing Chicago Tribune Others go for espionage, or swordplay from the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, or the lyric mayhem of Cormac McCarthy, or those Hardy Boys books. Or Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or Joseph Conrad, or Flannery O'Connor's brilliant and Catholic short stories, ...

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