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Borders: Goodbye to all that. What are some of your Borders memories?
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
by Stephan Lee Today is a big deadline for Borders — bids for its smaller stores are due, and Books-a-Million, of all places, has offered to snatch up a number of locations. Borders is a big corporation that in many ways got itself into its own mess, ...
Let Readers Share E-Books, And They'll Really Take Off
paidContent.org
Each week, e-book journalist Charlotte Abbot leads an hour-long Twitter discussion with publishing industry innovators, identified by the hashtag #followreader. Yesterday's discussion, about e-book buyer behavior, included reps from leading book ...
What We Do to Books
New York Times
Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have on them (the books). I don't mean on the reputations or royalties of the authors who wrote the books but on the actual physical objects themselves. As a kid I borrowed books from...
'Wimpy Kid,' 'Heroes of Olympus' among fall books
DAWN.com
Paolo Coelho, one of the world's best-selling authors, has a new novel of physical and spiritual travel, “The Aleph.” But he is happy to remain home this fall, in Geneva, Switzerland, and spread the word through his millions of followers on Facebook ...
An Army general takes some grief for his books
Washington Post (blog)
By Greg Jaffe Earlier this week, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the outgoing Army chief of staff, released his official reading list, as is the tradition for military service chiefs. Since then, he's gotten some hazing. “This is the sort of professional ...
books on Libya
Washington Post
By Dirk Vandewalle, Although Libya and its longtime dictator Moammar Gaddafi have inspired manybooks that sought to unravel the idiosyncracies of the country's 1969 revolution, very few have managed to do so in a clear and plausible way. ...
NASA to publish science fiction book series
Mother Nature Network
Such a base may appear in NASA's upcoming series of sci-fi books. (Image: NASA) NASA is teaming up with a publisher to produce a series of sci-fi novels. WorldShares lets you earn donations for your favorite nonprofit. Earn up to 20 points now. ...
Books | Nonfiction book lists are filled with real-life drama
Kansas City Star
Hardcover and paperback editions showed small declines in the trade-book market, and ebooks have been riding a wave that has continued to swell this year. Just last night I punched on my smartphone and continued finger-sliding my way through ...
Smashing Ideas' Golden Books app merges nostalgia and tech
TechFlash
Smashing Ideas created it for Random House, a publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, which acquired the Seattle media agency in May of this year. Since then, Smashing Ideas has also rolled out an app based on the classic "Pat the Bunny" book and Random ...
patrons look beyond books
insideTORONTO.com
Library patrons look beyond books in East York. Siuvan Ma reads a story to children at the S. Walter Stewart branch of the Toronto Public Library Tuesday afternoon during the library's summer reading club. Staff photo/NICK PERRY CITY CENTRE - Some ...
Librarians Reshelve 27000 Books After Virginia Earthquake
mediabistro.com
By Jason Boog on August 26, 2011 3:10 PM Following the earthquake in Virginia this week, more than 27000 books fell off the shelves at the University of Maryland's McKeldin Library. As you can see at this university Flickr set, a crack team of ...
Books | Dazzling fiction takes cues from reality
Kansas City Star
By DONNA SEAMAN Fiction is an arena for audacity, where a writer's imagination, love of language and avidity for story, description and inquiry blossom. Sure, we love good old-fashioned yarns, when the telling becomes invisible, and we're utterly ...
Books: Dead Light District, by Jill Edmondson
Guelph Mercury
Dead Light District, by Jill Edmondson (Iguana Publishing, $11.99 softcover) — A missing-person case that goes terribly wrong will have readers chuckling and cringing as they read Jill Edmondson's latest mystery tale. Edmondson teaches post-secondary ...
One Good Idea
Cabot Wealth Advisory
Cabot's founder, Carlton Lutts, was known to say about reading books, "All I'm looking for is one good idea." We get a lot of requests asking about which investing books are best, so today I'm going to share the Cabot editors' favorites. ...
BNA Books Announces the Publication of "Patents and the Federal Circuit, Tenth ...
Bradenton Herald
Roche, and the issues currently pending before the Supreme Court in these cases The authors of Patents and the Federal Circuit, Tenth Edition are: the late Robert L. Harmon, a patent litigator with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione and special master, ...
Local Author's New Books Help in Job Search
Patch.com
However, clients would see her finished products and expect a typeset, laid-out production instead of just the text, so she decided she needed to start learning layouts and desktop publishing, which meant purchasing a computer. ...
'I'm Done Writing Books,' Says Frey
Wall Street Journal
By MIKE VILENSKY Booktrack, a new start-up that adds soundtracks to e-books, launched in style Wednesday night at Yotel in Midtown. The company, backed by Facebook co-founder Peter Thiel, matches "synchronized music, sound effects, and ambient sound" ...
Flipboard wants to bring you books, TV and movies. iPhone version ...
By Matthew Panzarino
You may be able to flip through a selection of books, movies and TV shows in your Flipboard app soon, if Mike McCue gets his way. The CEO of the information digest app for iPad says that he is pursuing deals with studio partners to add video ...
TNW Apple
UCSD library cuts mean 150000 books must go | California Watch
By Erica Perez
Driven by dramatic budget cuts that will shutter four campus libraries, staffers at UC San Diego are removing roughly 150000 books and journals from their collections by summer's end – selling volumes to the highest bidder or donating them. ...
California Watch - All Content
Flipboard to add TV shows, books and movies; iPhone app on its way
By Todd Haselton
Flipboard, the company behind the popular like-named social magazine application for the iPad, plans to add TV shows, books and movie content, Reuters re.
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Do Agents Publishing E-books Have a Conflict of Interest ...
By Edward Nawotka
Anything that an agent can do to extend their services, backing their author, is valid, argues agent Ed Victor, who also runs Bedford Square Books.
Publishing Perspectives
Publishing News: Publishing startups bet on curation and apps - O ...
By Jenn Webb
The second round of TOC Sneak Peeks highlighted three new publishing startups. Their market areas included content curation, app creation for non-geeks, and multitouch content control. BookRiff: Ever want to compile your own cookbook, ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
Book Blogger Hop: 8/26-8/29 - Crazy for Books
By Jen
Not sure what a book blogger is and if you are one? Do you have a blog? Do you blog about books? Do you write book reviews on your blog? Do you rave about books and authors on your blog? Is your blog content primarily about books...
Crazy-for-Books
Soundtracks For Books - The Rumpus.net
By Lisa Dusenbery
“E-books with added interactive features and soundtracks may be the format's next step. And thoughmany traditionalists will balk at the technology — just as many have, and still do, condemn Kindles — there could be some instances, such as ...
The Rumpus.net

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