Amazon's Kindle Gets a Library Card

Amazon's Kindle Gets a Library Card
Wired News
By Tim Carmody Starting today, library patrons and Amazon e-book lovers have no reason to needle each other over which source of books is superior. Or at the very least, they have a comfortable meeting place where they can (quietly) exchange both book ...
Children's books for fall include Dr. Seuss' 'Bippolo Seed' and a new Wimpy Kid
Kansas City Star
By NICK OWCHAR This season, in the land of children's books, there be giants and dragons, wimps and blue horses. First, about the giants. They're not imaginary ones. In fact, they're quite familiar. New books from both classic authors are coming this ...
400 books banned from Algeria book fair
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's culture minister says 400 books were banned from the country's international book fair. Khalida Toumi said at a news conference Wednesday marking the fair's opening that the law on importing books banned those ...
Demibooks® Composer, First iPad-Based Platform for Creating Interactive Books ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Private beta testers for Composer included a diverse list of publishers, media studios, individual authors and illustrators. Kira Lynn, Publisher of Kane Miller Books, a division of EDC Publishing says, "Composer's rich feature- set allowed us to focus ...
Learn more about banned books this week at library
DL-Online
September 24 through October 1 is Banned Books Week. There are quite a few books that have been banned or challenged through the years, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, the Twilight ...
Jackie Collins: 'I've helped people's sex lives'
Boston Globe
By Alicia Rancilio AP / September 21, 2011 NEW YORK—After writing 28 books, Jackie Collins says she hasn't run out of things to write about. She gets her ideas from reading the newspaper, watching television and keeping up with the world around her. ...
Homewood Suites by Hilton Opens Fourth Books for Kids Library
MarketWatch (press release)
MCLEAN, Va., Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new, first-of-its-kind library has opened in Phoenix as the result of a partnership between Homewood Suites by Hilton and early childhood education nonprofit The Books for Kids Foundation. ...
There will be more Washington insider books but also highly anticipated ...
Kansas City Star
At his best, Thompson was not just a reporter but also a social critic, a role several authors fill this fall. In "The Ecstasy of Influence," Jonathan Lethem mixes old and new essays to frame a kaleidoscopic look at what it means to be a writer and a ...
Telegraph 1000: Walker Books innovates to stay ahead of the competition
Telegraph.co.uk
was the only word that Walker Books' founder Sebastian Walker said counted. It is the word he hoped every child would exclaim when they finished one of his publishing company's books. 'Again' is also a pretty good word to describe Walker Book's ...
Maurice Sendak scares parents with new book
Christian Science Monitor
The famous author and illustrator, best known for his celebrated books "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In The Night Kitchen", has released a new children's book about a pig's chaotic birthday party. It is the first book he has both written and ...
Inforgence America Signs Two New Clients for Mobile Publishing Platform
MarketWatch (press release)
21, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Inforgence America (IA) has recently signed two new publishers for its proprietary mobile publishing platform product, Sacramento-based Comstock's Magazine and Glimmer Apps. Well-suited for small and mid-size ...
Graphicly brings digital comic book publishing to Facebook
VentureBeat
The app makes it much easier to expose new and casual fans to a wide selection of comic books, according to Graphicly founder and CEO Micah Baldwin. “Most of our users are actually new comic book readers who have never been exposed to comics before,” ...
E-books' influence speaks volumes
Chicago Tribune
The new "Billy" will feature deeper shelves, perfect for displaying tchotchkes, sculptures, picture frames — anything but books. But without books on your bookshelf, how will you give the illusion of being well-read? •Popular sayings will evolve that ...
Lots of buyers snapping up books at used book sale
The Morning Sun
On the humor table are books by Tim Allen and Bill Maher, James Thurber and Dennis Miller. From “The New Encyclopedia of Jazz” to books by John Grisham, Robin Cook, Steve Martini, James Patterson, John LeCarre and Mary Higgins Clark – there's something ...
Number of Americans reading e-books doubles
The Bookseller
But there must also be a place for reading devices as well. Readers are quickly catching on to this wave as have the booksellers. "This is a huge transition time forpublishing companies and how they adapt will determine who is still standing 10 years ...
Harvard Business Publishing sets up London centre
Financial Times
By Della Bradshaw Harvard is extending its reach into Europe with the launch of a London office for its business publishing venture. The business school already has a research centre in Paris. Harvard Business Publishing is targeting three markets, ...
Kansas Book Festival to feature authors, musicians this Saturday in Topeka
Lawrence Journal World
The authors are from Kansas or have a strong Kansas connection. The festival also will honor Kansas authors with a presentation of 2011 Kansas Notable Book Awards, which are given out every year to 15 authors of fiction, children's books, ...
Could ebooks open a new chapter in legal publishing?
The Guardian
Law books can cost £500-600, and many are reprinted in a new hardback edition every year. Photograph: Ian Waldie/Getty Images Lawyers are an ideal market for the publishing industry. Their need to stay up to date in a constantly changing environment ...
Books: If you love a book, let it go ...
ScrippsNews
Instead, she says, books should be savored, pondered and shared -- over and over again. She gives them the wings to fly away. Long is a book crosser who leaves books in public places to be picked up and read by others who, hopefully, will do the same. ...
'Gossip Girls' books banned from Picayune schools
WLOX
"She expressed her concerns to the school board about how books get into the library system." Picayune Assistant Superintendent Brent Harrell wouldn't talk on camera, but told WLOX News by phone that the book had been in the school library since ...
Ron Simon: Books have always been a passion, and a tonic
Mansfield News Journal
My toys are books. Oh yes! There are trains, travel, music and social moments around the round table at the Community Y. But books are a passion with me. Like so many kids who were not outstanding athletes or social animals, I was a library rat. ...
Compass Media and MetaMetrics Providing Lexile Measures of English Books ...
MarketWatch (press release)
DURHAM, NC, Sep 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Compass Media and MetaMetrics(R), developer of The Lexile(R) Framework for Reading, are adding Lexile measures to the publisher's English language books. Educators and parents can use Lexile measures ...
More Rare Books Could Be Digitized
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Intellectual Property Watch reports on what it calls a “ground-breaking” set of principles for digitizing and making publicly available out-of-print books and journals by European organizations, which should allow more titles to be made available. ...
Amazon lets you check out Kindle books from library websites, asks ...
By Brian Heater
Love libraries, but hate having to look at all of those dusty old books? Good news: following the recent Seattle-only launch, it's now possible to check out Amazon Kindle books from some 11000 library sites, as long as you have a valid library ...
Engadget
Now libraries can loan Kindle ebooks - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
Library users can check out Kindle ebooks, starting Wednesday. ... Jacket Copy. Booksauthorsand all things bookish ... Some books will not be available, as publishers are still struggling to find the best way to allow readers to borrow ebooks. ...
Jacket Copy
5 000 000 Books | Resilience Science
By Garry Peterson
tags: books, Erez Lieberman Aiden, google, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Ngram. by Garry Peterson. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel discuss Google Labs' NGram Viewer. In their TED talk what can you learn from 5 million books? ...
Resilience Science
Kindle books are at 11000 libraries -- but any you want to read ...
By David Sarno
Amazon.com Inc. is trumpeting the availability of its Kindle e-books at 11000 public libraries around the U.S., a step that is sure to make Kindle readers happy. Until they find out how few Kindle books are actually available. At the...
L.A. Times Tech Blog
Kindle ebooks on loan now at 11000 libraries | Android Community
By Chris Burns
Kindle ebooks on loan now at 11000 libraries ... Should users choose to purchase books during or after their check-out period, notes and bookmarks added to borrowed copies will be transferred to the purchased copies automatically. ...
Android Community
Kindle Books Now Available At 11000 Local Libraries
By Steve Kovach
Now You Can Check Out Kindle Books From Your Local Library -- For Free! ... More precisely, it is a software, hardware and network platform developed by Amazon.com for the rendering and displaying of e-books and other digital media. ...
SAI
Kindle Books Available Through 11000 Libraries in U.S. ...
By Chris Crum
Amazon announced today that Kindle books are now available at over 11000 local libraries in the U.S. To check out Kindle books, users can simply find them on.
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