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 ...
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