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Borders' Liquidation Sales an Unexpected Boon for Authors
Huffington Post
But because Borders is liquidating all of their stock by selling the books they have on hand at deep discounts, none of these books are being returned. I and other authors are actually selling more copies of our books than we would have if Borders had ...
I Read My 5-Year-Old Banned Books & You Should, Too
Huffington Post (blog)
It's pure coincidence that I taught Nadine Gordimer's luminous, difficult Burger's Daughter during Banned Books Week this year. Banned in South Africa immediately upon its 1979 publication in the UK, Gordimer's novel is a fictional portrait of the ...
Rin Tin Tin The Life And The Legend NPR
His father and grandfather had already been celebrated around the world in silent films, talkies, radio, vaudeville, comics, and books; this new Rin Tin Tin, Lee insisted, was ready to conquer television, "the coming medium," as he described it. ...
Banned Books Week: Schools Elsewhere Defy Texas Ban
ThirdAge
Banned Books Week has seen some Florida schools and others elsewhere put booksthat often top banned lists on prominent display, in defiance of the ban of several children's books in Texas. The week is intended to stress the importance of ensuring...
BOOKS: Q&A: From hardboiled newsman to chronicler of friendship
Taunton Daily Gazette
By Rosemary Herbert A crowd of Newburyport denizens gathered Jabberwocky Bookshop recently when Tom Ryan returns to Clipper City as the author of the highly-touted new memoir/travelogue/inspirational volume, ...
MindTouch Launches Social Publishing and Behavior Analytics for Top Desktop ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In just a few clicks, content authors can publish to MindTouch from their existing tools. Hierarchies, cross-link references, image and page formats are maintained. Content is automatically and dynamically organized by tags and the site hierarchy. ...
Palos Verdes Libraries Lend Kindle Books
Patch.com
Residents now can borrow library books on a Kindle as the Palos Verdes Library District has joined a new Amazon program. By Vickey Kalambakal Palos Verdes residents now can take their Kindles to the library and choose between books to read on the ...
New Books Uncovers The Alleged Dark Side Of Walter Payton
The Smoking Section
Sweetness hits stands everywhere books are sold October 4 and is the subject and cover of the new Sports Illustrated set to be released the day prior. Like I said before, my opinion of Payton the NFL icon will never change. The gaudy numbers – 21264 ...
Q& A -- Former Beacon reporter publishes novel
MetroWest Daily News
It sold quickly to two publishing houses -- Simon & Schuster is the US publisher, and Random House bought the rights to distribute the English language version worldwide -- and both houses have bought the next two books in the series as well. ...
200 Olympics books on start line
Evening Standard
Almost 200 Olympic books will hit the shelves in the coming year in the most ambitious publishing plan in Games history. A broad selection of titles includes a £200 souvenir of London 2012; an anonymous exposé from a former athlete; a series of novels ...
The nation's first cloud platform for e-books launched
Taipei Times
The cloud platform enables access to new literary collections, allowing people to read wherever they go, share comments, interpretations and discussions through social Web sites, and edit typos of thebooks online, Taiwan Digital Publishing Forum ...
Super Thursday: 225 books compete for the Christmas run-up
Telegraph.co.uk
On September 29, known as “Super Thursday”, more than 225 books were published. Expected fiction bestsellers such as The Fear Index by Robert Harris and The Affair by Lee Child rub up alongside actors' autobiographies such as Absolutely by Joanna ...
The library is more than lots of books
Adobe Press
By Susan Galluzzo Books, videos, DVDs, magazines, audio books on CD: The list goes on and on, yet the surprises never end when you visit the Nipomo Library. Our local branch has rich offerings of computer databases available, both in the library itself ...
Mark Bittman Brings Cooking Back and Pushes Publishing Forward
Huffington Post (blog)
The book's publisher, Byliner Originals, recruits well-known authors to write e-books that can be read in a single sitting. The format is popularizing, if not altogether creating, a new niche in mid-length nonfiction, sandwiched between magazine ...
Children's Authors Ignite MIBA
Publishers Weekly
The breakfast authors' emphasis on the importance of art to stimulate the imagination must have made a strong impression on booksellers. Illustrated books were hot at MIBA this year. Of course, picture books for young children enticed booksellers as ...
Kenya: Price of Books Could Rise By 50 Percent
AllAfrica.com
Exercise books and other indispensable tools used alongside textbooks may also have to pay VAT. According to Kenya Publishers Association,Executive Officer,James Odhiambo this will be a major blow to the education sector and will stifle the publishing ...
Two authors offer prescient looks on the Arab Spring
The National
In the meantime, however, it is fascinating to examine those books that were begun before the onset of the region's awakening, but whose authors scrambled to incorporate it into their narratives. Get the scoop on which of the latest titles are worth...
Kohl's Shares the Love This Holiday Season with Whimsical and Imaginative ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Readers of all ages will get swept away in the loving words and imaginative illustrations of these storybooks and will feel good knowing Kohl's donates 100 percent of the net profit to children's health and education initiatives in communities ...
Handy Flowchart for Choosing Among NPR's Top 100 Science ...
By Charlie Jane Anders
Now that we officially know the 100 greatest science fiction and fantasy books, according to NPR's fine readers, there's some great reading material waiting for all of us. But which of these great booksis best for you? It's a dazzling amount of ...
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12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S.
By Miss Cellania
It might have been easier to write up a “books that have never been banned anywhere” list. The banning of ... O.K., let's take a look at a brief (in the scheme of these things) list of books that have been (ironically) banned here in the U.S…. 1. ...
Neatorama
From Commentary to Conversation: The ... - Publishing Perspectives
By Guest Contributor
Social reading seems like a counterintuitive idea, but it enriches both reading and publishing, argues Anobii CEO Matteo Berlucchi. ... The key benefits of e-books compared to paper books (p-books) are primarily linked to the form factor: faster to get the book you want, no weight to carry around on planes, font scaling etc. All the other features are arguably the same: bookmarks, ... Reading, Personal History. › Previewing PubLaunch's “eBooks Around the World” Frankfurt Confab ...
Publishing Perspectives
Create and publish your own books with Book Creator for iPad | TiPb
By Leanna Lofte
Kids love writing their own little books, and doing so with Book Creator will likely make kid authors feel extra proud of their books when they are able to show them off in iBooks on an iPad. The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, ...
TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and...
Haymarket books to celebrate 10th anniversary
By Philip Weiss
Brooklyn, NY Haymarket Books is ushering in its tenth year of independent publishing with an evening of drinks, music, and politics at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on Friday, September 30. Come see authors Dave Zirin, Chris Lehmann, ...
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Houston's Clear Thinkers: Markets in Self-Publishing
By Tom K.
One of the most interesting emerging markets that I've been following recently has been in self-publishing. UCLA business law professor and longtime blogger Stephen Bainbridge - who, along with Larry Ribstein, is a blogosphere leader in ...
Houston's Clear Thinkers
Books Every Career Woman Should Own « Clutch Magazine
By Danielle Pointdujour
With these four books in your arsenal you'll be well on your way to making all your career dreams come true. Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers – Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D ...
Clutch Magazine
Banned Books Week - Las Cruces Sun-News
By By Norm Dettlaff/ Sun-News
Reference Librarian Carmella Lee adjusts the "jail" of banned books Wednesday at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library.
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Search all your cookbooks with Eat Your Books « Baking Bites
By Nicole
For instance, if I want a recipe for pork chops with apples for a fall dinner, it may take me a while of hit-and-miss searching through books that I think might have such a recipe. This whole process is streamlined with a little help from Eat Your ...
Baking Bites
New Top Challenged Books – Stephen's Lighthouse
By admin
As readers around the country celebrate Banned Books Week, The Huffington Post has created a massive infographic with excerpts from the top ten of the 348 books that were threatened in school libraries or curriculum last year.” Top Ten ...
Stephen's Lighthouse
Top 10 banned books all college students should read « - College ...
While many of us connect censorship with TV and the radio, books are also victims of challenges and bans in libraries and schools around the country. In honor of Banned Books Week, the First Amendment and individual thought, I've ...
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“Free” eBooks for Kindle Arrive at the Library!
Santa Barbara Independent
Library patrons with a Kindle, the portable eReader from Amazon.com, may now download eBooksfor FREE from the Santa Barbara Public Library System's website. Until now, the library's catalog of over 3500 eBooks has been available for free download to ...
Bloomsbury venture to bring books 'back from dead'
IBNLive.com
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter books in Britain, launched its first purely digital imprint on Wednesday which it said would bring out-of-print titles "back from the dead". Bloomsbury Reader has signed up a string of authors ...
Technology changes the once simple cookbook
USA Today
Eat Your Books, launched nine months ago, boasts a library of 88000 books with more than 2000 indexed volumes. Users just tell the site which cookbooks they own, then they can quickly peruse the recipes of the chefs and authors they already trust. ...
Wyandotte Library Supports the Reading of Banned Books
Patch.com
In honor of Banned Books Week, the National Library Association has released a list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2010. By Jason Alley Public libraries across the country, including here in Wyandotte, are encouraging people to peak into some ...

   

Bloomsbury venture to bring books "back from dead"

Bloomsbury venture to bring books "back from dead"
Reuters
British writer JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, poses during the launch of new online website Pottermore in London June 23, 2011. By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter booksin ...
Banned Books Week: Join the virtual Read-Out protest on YouTube
Christian Science Monitor
The American Library Association urges users to read from banned or challenged books on YouTube. By Molly Driscoll / September 28, 2011 Users can upload a YouTube video of themselves reading from a banned or challenged book. During Banned Books Week, ...
MB Library Now Lends Kindle Books
Patch.com
Scroll down to “EBooks” and pick a fiction or nonfiction category. The list of books you see will tell you if copies are available, and even how many people are on the waiting list. A search box is at the top. Once you find an available book you want, ...
Anthony Bourdain has no reservations about publishing gig
Kansas City Star
To me, there are certain books and authors that I feel evangelical about. And there have been in the past a number of authors, not just chefs but also authors, who I have really believed in and I have hectored my agent into taking on, or pestered Dan ...
Sarah Palin May Have a Hard Time Proving Defamation
ABC News (blog)
Schmidt added that as one of the biggest publishing houses in the country, Random House “doesn't publish books like these carelessly,” but the “author is responsible for the content he put in it.” This isn't Palin's first legal scuffle in the ...
Que Publishing Offers Enhanced eBooks through Apple's iBookstore
MarketWatch (press release)
INDIANAPOLIS, Sep 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Que Publishing announced today that it is now offering enhanced eBooks from its USING series through Apple's iBookstore. Designed for beginner-level home and office computer users, USING eBooks include up ...
MIPJunior Launches Books-to-TV Exchange
Sacramento Bee
LBF is part of the Reed Exhibitions Books and Publishing Group. Reed Exhibitions is the parent company of MIP Junior organiser Reed MIDEM. "The London Book Fair is very happy to be involved in this project," notes Alistair Burtenshaw, Group Exhibition ...
Russian Orthodox Church slams 2 acclaimed authors
CBS News
Father Vsevolod Chaplin's demand that Russia's government investigate and limit the use of the books was his church's latest attempt to impose religious norms in a country that once rejected religion altogether. Chaplin, who heads the Moscow ...
Authors with BC connections dominate Writers' Trust shortlist
Vancouver Sun (blog)
Two other authors with roots in BC are also shortlisted: Michael Christie was nominated for his short story collection The Beggar's Garden, while Patrick deWitt's novel The Sisters Brothers was also named. DeWitt is from BC, but now lives in Oregon. ...
Banned Books Week 2011: Surprising List of Controversial Reads
International Business Times
By IB Times Staff Reporter | September 27, 2011 8:06 PM EDT Banned Books Week highlights one of the most fundamental rights for book lovers everywhere: the freedom to read whatever they want. The motto for the 2011 Banned Books Week is "Think for...
At long last, Kindle owners can get eBooks from library
Mukilteo Beacon
“It will be interesting to watch the growth in circulation as our customers find out that we have Kindlebooks.” Kindle users can browse Sno-Isle Libraries' collection of bestselling and classic eBooksfrom a PC or Mac computer, check out titles using ...
Disney Publishing Worldwide Debuts New Disney Princess Mobile App in Honor of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Headquartered in White Plains, NY, Disney Publishing Worldwide publishes books, magazines, and digital products in 85 countries in 75 languages. For more information visitwww.disneypublishing.com .
Library hosts book sale
Half Moon Bay Review
The Friends of the Half Moon Bay Library are still accepting donations of books for their third annual book sale, set for Oct. 1. Typically the sale had been held on the same weekend as the Citywide Garage Sale, but this year the Friends decided to ...
Putin Comments on Timchenko and Books
The Moscow Times
He said a special government commission is tasked with "finding the most efficient legal solutions that would issue guarantees to authors" so that "the digital book market can develop in a civilized and legal way." When faced with a comment from one ...
The Jewish High Holy Days: Extraordinary Time, Dearth of New Books for Kids
Publishers Weekly
“Our editorial staff has been working with some wonderful authors to build up our list of Judaica. We make lots of suggestions to our authors; however, in the end, we need to follow the leads of our creative talent and their inspirations. ...
Books-A-Million closes Hamilton Place site, says others unaffected
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Books-A-Million managers in Chattanooga declined to discuss the closings. But company CEO Clyde Anderson blamed the company's sales decline on "a soft publishing lineup, the effect of e-book migration and the impact of Border's liquidation. ...
Risky reads! 5 books that have been banned
msnbc.com
What banned book do you think is worth reading? Are there any books you'd ban from your home? New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Worick has published more than 25 books. Also a publishing consultant, she can be found at The Business ofBooks.
How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader
CNN
ReadKiddoRead.com, a site dedicated to helping parents find books that will get their kids reading. (CNN) -- You're reading CNN.com, so maybe this isn't a stress-inducing worry in your house, but for too many kids in this country, reading is a dirty ...
7 Graphic Design Books for Kids
The Atlantic
The First Book of Jazz, which you might recall as one of our favorite children's books by famous authors of literature for grown-ups, became the first-ever children's book to review American music, and to this day arguably the best. ...
Getting clubby with books
Edmonton Journal
Sandra Leclair, a library staffer who hosts the Monday afternoon and Tuesday night book clubs at Idyl wylde, says she tries to choose a cross-section of books for the clubs, both fiction and non-fiction - "whatever I can grab ahold of and think might ...
"When the gods go Astray" by Curtis Hatch Now Available for Kindle
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
EBooks are a rapidly growing market. According to the New York Times, "Since April 1, Amazon sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books, including books without Kindle versions and excluding free e-books...
Amazon Tops 1 Million Kindle Books In Just Four Years | TechCrunch
By Jordan Crook
Amazon Tops 1 Million Kindle Books In Just Four Years. Jordan Crook. posted 6 hours ago. Comments. View Author Page. Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining ...
TechCrunch
Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint ...
By KimSpilker
Our blog offers book info, links to ebooks, & other good stuff. ... Event: Meet Microsoft Press authorsat Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. Books & ebooks about Microsoft applications, certifications, tools, technologies, & research. .... Todd Bleeker - Advanced Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 IT Professionals; Robert Bogue - Customizing Content Publishing Approval Workflows; Andrew Connell - Deep Dive on SharePoint Ribbon Development & Extensibility; Steve Fox ...
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Digital Publishing – “If You Want to Change the Culture, Create the ...
By Michael Mandaville (Profile)
The 26 year old was tired of the Old World publishing house runaround. She self-published her young adult paranormal books on Smashwords. Her nine titles sold 164000 ebooks in 2010 alone. To date, she's sold several million copies, ...
RedState
GoErie.com Blogs: Loaves & Dishes - Books for cooks
By Jennie Geisler
Books for cooks. Before I get to the books, let me try to clear something up: There will not be a shortage of canned pumpkin this year. The crop is good in Illinois, where 90 percent of canned pumpkin is grown. It's the Halloween pumpkins in the ...
Loaves & Dishes
Some recent recommended science books | Open Parachute
By Ken
It's the latest annual short list selected by the UK Royal Society for the Winton Prize for ScienceBooks. I think they all look interesting. I have already purchased two of these (The Disappearing Spoon and Massive) and will keep an eye out for ...
Open Parachute
“What kind of investment books do you recommend?” Early ...
By Jacob
Many investment books, especially the non-technical ones, contains a strategy that can be summarized on one page while the rest of the book is an attempt at justifying why this strategy works along with some anecdotes on how the strategy ...
Early Retirement Extreme
Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » Free Books! Another ...
By Columbia University Press
We want to give more books away. There are a limited number of boxes so you must act now. Please email your name and mailing address to cup.publicityintern@gmail.com and you will enter to win a free box of books from Columbia ...
Columbia University Press
IVR Deconstructed » Amazon in E-Publishing
By charlie
Amazon in E-Publishing. September 27, 2011. Despite the smartphone and job in the tech industry, I still enjoy paper magazines and books. I stare at a computer enough at work. I'd rather hold a book in my hand instead of a tablet on my bus ...
IVR Deconstructed
Banned Books Week, Sing Out | The Hub
By Mia Cabana
In honor of Banned Books Week I drew a little cartoon inspired by the Banned Books Week Virtual Read Out, imagining what it would be like if some of our favorite frequently-challenged authors got together to form a band and sing out about it! ...
The Hub

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI - NYTimes
Michael Lewis possesses the rare storyteller’s ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. In his new book, “Boomerang,” he actually makes topics like European sovereign debt, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank not only comprehensible but also fascinating . . . 

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Amazon's grip tightens on book-publishing industry

Amazon's grip tightens on the entire book-publishing chain
CNN
What's not so well known is how deeply Amazon's tentacles reach into all parts of the industry, including its growing interest in inking deals with authors to publish some of the hit books Amazon sells. Booksellers and publishers are crying foul, ...
Banned books
Washington Post (blog)
Banned books around the United States: What are we afraid of? By Melissa Bell It's the 30th year the American Library Association has celebrated the right to read with its Banned Book Week. The week draws attention to cases of censorship at schools and ...
Free eBooks for Evanston Residents
Patch.com
By Patch Staff Evanston Public Library patrons can now download free eBooks for their Kindle devices through My Media Mall. Thousands of titles are available to choose from in genres ranging from fiction, to non-fiction to classics. As of September 21, ...
Will Sarah Palin sue Crown Publishing, McGinniss for defamation?
Alaska Dispatch
Sarah Palin has written a letter to Crown Publishing Group, publisher of Joe McGinniss's recent book, “The Rogue,” saying it might sue Crown for “knowingly publishing false statements” about Palin and her family in the book. The lawsuit might also give ...
Kobo brings books to life with Kobo Pulse™
Sacramento Bee
The advent of ebooks has enabled readers to carry their entire libraries in their pocket and download new books in an instant through wireless devices. But until now, the reading experience has remained static. The launch of Kobo Pulse marks a ...
More than 200000 Book-Lovers Attend DC National Book Festival
School Library Journal
For the third consecutive year, a Digital Bookmobile, powered by ebook provider OverDrive, enabled visitors to browse a public library's website, sample popular ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video titles, and learn how to download and try out ...
Alberta authors inspire young writers at Edmonton schools
Edmonton Journal
“Just being with a local author who's written books is kind of inspiring,” Katrina says, “because I want to to be an author when I grow up, because I really like writing. I got some really good tips that have helped me.” Raise-A-Reader funds a similar ...
Banned Books Week 2011 kicks off nationwide
allvoices
Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; ...
Bonding over books
Chicago Parent
Here are five quick tips to help get you started: Choose books that appeal to the whole family and read them aloud. Children enjoy repetition and ritual, so try selecting a daily or weekly time when everyone can gather for a book. ...
Simple books help young kids make sense of divorce
OCRegister
Join the conversation: Are books a good parenting tool in tough situations? Leave a comment below. 61% off! $50 for your choice of Veterinary Services from Rancho Viejo Animal Hospital! By PAM BRASHEAR Kids are hard work at any age, but it's especially ...
Grade 5s share books worth a second look
Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - Terri Elliott, Grade 5 teacher at Edmonton's Bisset School, 3020 37th St., asked her students to respond to the Journal's invitation to write about books they think are worth another look. “Thank you for reading about some of our favorite ...
Note to Authors: Your Book Won't Change Your Life
Huffington Post (blog)
That hit me hard, and I found myself wandering Barnes & Noble in a daze, realizing that this pinnacle life event could quite easily become a non-event, an infinitesimal droplet in a vast ocean of books, and that my prize-winning work could easily wind ...
USF Recognizes Books That Have Been Banned
The Ledger
USF Polytechnic graduate student Patty Martinez reads a passage from Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" as she celebrates the freedom to read by reading aloud from banned or challenged books during "Banned Books Week" at the school on ...
"Like" Tarascon Publishing on Facebook to Donate to Doctors Without Borders
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Tarascon Publishing, an imprint of Jones & Bartlett Learning, is pleased to announce the launch of a charitable Facebook campaign to raise money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Tarascon Publishing, an imprint of Jones ...
The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline
TechCrunch
The book is, at best, an artifact and at worst a nuisance. Book collections won't disappear – hold-outs will exist and a subset of readers will still print books – but generally all publishing will exist digitally.
5 Steps To Successfully Launching Your Book
Daily Markets
Previously, all of these services had to be ordered separately, but now all of them can be purchased together in a cost-effective package that “makes sense” of book marketing for self-publishing authors. “With one easy order, any author can now save ...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Release New Edition of Lois Lowry's Newbury ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Along with a celebrated lineup of children's authors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group is the publisher of some of the best-loved children's books and book characters including Curious George, The Little Prince and The Polar Express. ...
Top 10 Books Lost to Time
By John Farrier
Some books by modern authors, too, have not survived the ravages of time. Megan Gambino of Smithsonian magazine has a roundup of ten books that are mentioned in various places, but have never been located. Among them is Cardenio, ...
Neatorama
After Disruptive Change, What's Next for ... - Publishing Perspectives
By Edward Nawotka
Digital has disrupted scholarly publishing too, according to the annual conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers. ... Online journals had it much easier than e-books, since the reading requirements of online journals are similar to those of print journals. Yet the transformation from book to e-books will be less comprehensive: all ... Academic and scholarly publishers are part of a service industry, serving our authors. The processes might change, the ...
Publishing Perspectives
Will ebooks destroy the democratizing effects of reading ...
By Paul Biba
Follow us on. Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... as he found his own voice. Sure, these are extreme examples, but it is undeniable thatbooks have a democratizing effect on learning. ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
ResourceBlog Article: More Print on Demand Books Available in ...
On Demand Books announced that it had signed a deal with Google to tie the more than 7 million titles available via the Espresso Book Machine into Google Books. Customers will soon be able to find books on the Google Books website and ...
ResourceShelf
17 Banned Books You Read As A Child
17 Banned Books You Read As A Child: Or as an adult...don't judge me. In honor of Ba...
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New The Top 10 Books Lost to Time (plus 2 more) – Stephen's ...
By admin
The Top 10 Books Lost to Time (plus 2 more). Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting web article listing “The Top 10 Books Lost To Time” by major authors. Check it out here: The Top 10 Books Lost to Time Great written works from authors ...
Stephen's Lighthouse
eBooks, Privacy, and the Library « INFOdocket
By Gary D. Price
My experience has been long wait times for most of the books I want to read. I've heard this from others who use different OverDrive collections. Will libraries be able to keep up with even greater demand? Can they afford to buy more copies? ...
INFOdocket
Tiny DIY Books by Victorian Tweens | The Hairpin
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
What could be better than tiny books? Tiny books made by tiny beloved authoresses! We all know and love Jane Eyre, the story of an orphan seeking out a path to happiness in this wild world (“It's hard to get by just upon a smile, girl” ...
The Hairpin
Google Brings BooksAuthors Guild Brings Lawsuit | Singularity Hub
By Peter Murray
As reported in the New York Times, the lawsuit asserts that “by digitizing, archiving, copying and now publishing the copyrighted works without the authorization of those works' rights holders, the universities are engaging in one of the largest infringements in ... HathiTrust, which includes institutions such as MIT, Harvard and Johns Hopkins is currently compiling their own digitized library that includes many books to which the authors still hold rights to, according to the Authors' Guild. ...
Singularity Hub
Flavorwire » 10 Famous Children's Authors Who Also Wrote Books for Adults...
By Judy Berman
His announcement got us thinking about how many famous children's authors — both classic and current — have also written books for adults, with varying degrees of publicity and success. After the jump, we take a look at the more mature ...
Flavorwire
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