| Favorite Barnes makes Booker shortlist of 6 authors Reuters "Julian Barnes's book is the most obvious novel on the shortlist and perhaps the most expected as it was well reviewed," Gaby Wood, judge and head of books at Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper told reporters at the unveiling of the list. ... | ||
| Amazon's New Kindle Social Media Feature: Making Authors' Lives Harder? Huffington Post (blog) The majority of authors probably won't have to deal with any of this. How many people are reading their books anyway (and then feeling moved to reach out to the author)? The writers who need to worry most, of course, are the successful ones. ... | ||
| NPR's top sci-fi and fantasy books Sacramento Bee By MATTHEW FORTNER After sorting through several thousand nominations and collecting over 60000 votes, NPR has compiled a list of favorite sci-fi and fantasy books. "Harry Potter" fans may notice something missing from their list of the top 100. ... | ||
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| Excess books from Library of Congress journey to Boston branches Boston Globe By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent A friends group of the Dudley Branch library and staff at the Lower Mills branch are preparing to give away separate donations of excess books from the Library of Congress through a program officials say helps ... | ||
| Faber And Perseus Books Join Forces To Provide Global Digital Services Booktrade.info "Constellation has enabled Grove Atlantic to provide state-of-the business ebook distribution to our authors while staying focused on our core expertise which is publishing great books," said Morgan Entrekin, Publisher of Grove Atlantic. ... | ||
| Schools ditch books for iPads; Won't solve today's reading 'crisis' ZDNet (blog) But you say, “Kindle's are for books, and iPads can run interactive and engaging content”. Yes, they do, when the content is actually available, and part of a core curriculum of study that the school supports. But though the iPad guarantees a certain ... | ||
| Personalize Your Children's Books With JibJab Jr. Books – iPad App Review PadGadget The first in the series, “The Biggest Pizza Ever” is free and you can buy additional books for $7.99, or you can join the Book of the Month club for only $3.99 per month. To personalize your book, you can either take a picture of your child (or ... | ||
| Bay Area pastry chefs pen a trio of sweet books San Jose Mercury News But after browsing through the latest cookbooks by Bay Area authors, we're beginning to suspect a plot. Apparently the pastry chefs from Miette, Gobba Gobba Hey and Chez Panisse don't think we've indulged enough, so they're giving us recipes for their ... | ||
| From Vietnam to Somalia: Two Books Worth Reading TIME (blog) Short version:I spent the dog days the earthquake and hurricane days of August reading What It Is Like To Go to War, by Karl Marlantes, and Submergence, by JM Ledgard. I recommend both heartily to the Battleland readership. Long version, Part I: The ... | ||
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| Md. man's bookstore packed with unique items Houston Chronicle He also wants to be bastion of the printed word, fighting the good fight against eBooks and the demise of bookstores. "It's not a Kindle thing," he said. "But a book is more than just the pages between the covers. If what you're selling is information ... | ||
| Local native among 4 cookbook authors for gala San Angelo Standard Times Her first cookbook, "The Homesick Texan," with more than 125 recipes, is publishing Sept. 13. Not only will you get to hobnob with these great foodies, get your paws on their cookbooks and get them signed, you'll also get to taste some of their recipes ... | ||
| Book Festival Brings Famous Authors, Inflatable Dinosaur to Decatur The Emory Wheel “Any 3 Books for $10,” reads one; “Smart Women Read,” announces another. Of course, there is more to the festival than an array of book vendors. Many booths represent small publishers or even self-publishing businesses. Ahmad Meradji, the CEO of ... | ||
| Oz bookseller fires back in online battle Register However, D Publishing will assign an imprint to works and sort out their ISBN numbers. The Dymocks masthead will then print books on-demand “anywhere in Australia”, where customers want a printed copy, as well as distributing e-books for authors that ... | ||
| Chesaning library now offers ebooks Argus Press CHESANING — River Rapids District Library has expanded its services with audiobooks and ebooks available to download from the library's website. Library card holders can check out and download digital media anytime, anywhere by visiting ... | ||
| Illustrator's poster celebrates books Cincinnati.com Wald also will be at the fifth Books by the Banks festival, from 10 am-4 pm Oct. 22 at the Duke Energy Convention Center, Downtown. Organized by six area libraries and Josepth Beth, the free event features more than 100 local and national authors and ... | ||
| Chapter 11 Auction Of Borders' Intellectual Property To Be Held On September ... Daily Markets He pointed out that self-help guru Timothy Ferris recently signed with Amazon's publishing unit. That's right: Amazon has a publishing unit. And as more authors sign with Amazon, traditional publishers will lose market share to it. ... | ||
| Six Authors Up for Man Booker Prize - NYTimes.com By By JULIE BOSMAN Six authors were named on Tuesday to the shortlist of candidates for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. ... Books of The Times: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach - Review. By MICHIKO KAKUTANI. Chad Harbach takes the well-worn, ... ArtsBeat | ||
| Anthropology & Academic Publishing: Update | Savage Minds By Ryan And people who do need to see those papers can see those papers, probably know the authors, probably heard the poster session or talk at a meeting, and will know about the published report if it's at all worth reading. I could not disagree more with that line of reasoning. There is a point to be made about the ... The largest chunk of publishing cost (journals or books) is payroll, not printing on paper. The editor who selects articles generally does not copyedit them, lay them out, and ... Savage Minds | ||
| Angela Flournoy: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books By Angela Flournoy On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books. Posted: 9/6/11 03:38 PM ET ... Two Canadian authors are in the running for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for a work of fiction.... Harry E. Johnson Sr.: The Man ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
| Brazilian tricycle distributes books to disadvantaged communities ... By Springwise The Bicicloteca is a tricycle adapted to function as a mobile library, distributing books to disadvantaged areas in Brazil. Springwise | ||
| The Book Bench: These Books Were Made For Walking : The New ... By Macy Halford These Books Were Made For Walking. Posted by Macy Halford · Bookbinder-Heels.jpg. Of all the memento mori we've created in honor of our long lost love The Book (I'm thinking of books made into chairs, into mobiles, into lampshades; into ... The Book Bench | ||
| Letterpress Print and Make Books: Katherine Case @Craftzine.com ... By Brookelynn Katherine Case uses vintage machinery from the 19th century up to the 1950's to make letterpressbooks. This method of printing was sparked with Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and Case performs live demos at Maker Faire Bay ... Craftzine.com blog | ||
| Mediactive » Cory Doctorow on Self-Publishing By Dan Gillmor Terrific piece by Cory (a friend) about who's cut out for self-publishing, and who may not be. Excerpt: I firmly believe that there are writers out there today who have valuable insights and native talent that would make them natural successes at ... Mediactive | ||
| Ashford Publishing Presents Nancy Bauser 09/06 by ... By AshfordPublishing Ashford Publishing Presents Nancy Bauser. by AshfordPublishing. Featured Host. in Education. Airdate: Tue, Sep 6, 2011. follow. Call in number to speak with the host. (760) 542-4100. If you liked this show, you can follow AshfordPublishing. ... Ashford Publishing Radio Studio A | ||
| An Argument Against Agent-Publishers | Publishing Perspectives By Guest Contributor What began last winter with Scott Waxman's Diversion Books and continued this spring with Ed Victor's Bedford Square, has extended this summer to Dystel & Goderich, BookEnds, The Knight Agency, McDermid, Levine Greenberg, Andrea ... The plethora of impressive non-traditionalpublishing and marketing tools now available lead authors with backlist titles and fresh content to grow as dissatisfied with traditional agency methods as they are with traditional publisher methods.... Publishing Perspectives |
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