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Google Books adds library management | iLounge News By Jesse David Hollington Google Books for iOS provides iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users with access to the GoogleeBooks library on the go allowing them to read any free or previously purchased content in their Google Books account in a native iOS application. ... iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone,...

Amazon Considering a "Netflix for Books" By Jack Loftus Would you pay a fee to access a library of written content? A Netflix for the book-reading world? Amazon is apparently banking you might, as it was reported tonight by the WSJ that the online retailer was considering that option. Gizmodo

Anthony Bourdain to Acquire Books for Ecco - NYTimes.com By By SAM SIFTON In a brief exchange over Twitter after the announcement, Mr. Bourdain told Diner's Journal that he was working on a “very cool and unusual list” of authors for Ecco. (You can follow Mr. Bourdain on Twitter, at @NoReservations.) The “people ... Diner's Journal

Amazon reportedly in talks to launch a Netflix for books - TNW Insider By Zee Today however we're hearing reports via the WSJ that Amazon may soon launch a book equivalent of the service, charging a fixed monthly fee for access to a library of books. Amazon will reportedly offer book publishers a substantial fee for ... The Next Web

Amazon in talks to start books-on-demand subscription service ... By Matthew Humphries Sep. 12, 2011 - Amazon already dominates book sales, whether they be paper or digital. It also has a very firm grasp on the e-reader market with millions of Kindles already. Geek.com

Amazon readying Netflix-like service for eBooks, report claims By Zach Epstein It will download books from Amazon's Kindle book store, stream music from the company's Cloud Player service, pull down movies from Amazon Instant Video, and provide a window into Amazon's numerous additional services. According to a ... BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Photography Books Everyone Seems to Love Right Now In the world of photography, Scott Kelby is having a very good (and well deserved) run with his books. Here are the others that folks are taking a shine to. What photography book have you purchased lately? Let us know in the comments! ... Light Stalking | Site Wide Activity

John Green to Keynote Publishing App Expo - GalleyCat By Jason Boog Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is looking for a Managing Editor, Books and Special Projects Team. next job Book Publisher is looking for a Writer/Researcher. next job Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group is looking for a Editorial Assistant. ... GalleyCat

Amazon working on a subscription library for books, says WSJ | This ... By Nilay Patel Publishers are said to be somewhat hesitant about the idea, as they fear it could lower the value ofbooks; Amazon is reported to be trying to allay those fears by offering a “substantial fee” for participation and potentially even limiting the number of titles customers can read each ... So it's going to be like Audible (which Amazon owns) but for ebooks instead of audiobooks? ... I guess this would be a challenge for the publishing companies to brainstorm and compete with technology. ... This is my next...

PJ Lifestyle » If Paper Publishing is Dead, What Next? By Charlie Martin I look at my bookscan figures (which weren't for the likes of us authors once upon a time) I know that my distribution as a reasonably established author… shall I put this politely? Stinks worse than two week dead basking shark's gut contents ... A Kindle book that's being widely read among my friends is John Locke's How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months. The short version is “I wrote several series,... Categories: Books and Magazines. Posted at 9:35 am on September 12th, 2011 by ... PJ Lifestyle

On the Books Sept 12: Amazon to offer 'Netflix-like' book lending ... By Stephan Lee Ebooks do NOT cost much less than a traditional book, and in some cases, they even cost MORE (A Song of Ice and Fire books 1-4 boxed set, I'm looking at you)! Unless the publishing industry wants to go the way of the music industry, they ... Shelf Life

Anthony Bourdain Is Now a Line of Books - New York Restaurants ... By Rebecca Marx ​In addition to books, a TV show, and a reputation as a professional sh_t-stirrer, Anthony Bourdain now has a publishing imprint to his name. The New York Times' ArtsBeat blog reports that Bourdain will acquire titles for HarperCollins imprint ... Fork in the Road

Ikea Admits the End of Books - Curbed National By Sarah Firshein Are books dead? Perhaps, says The Economist: "Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous 'BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors... Curbed National

The Ann Arbor Chronicle | A2: Borders Books By Chronicle Staff The article quotes University of Michigan history professor Jonathan Marwil: “Borders used to be chockablock with books. It has increasingly looked less like a bookstore than a bowling alley, with its wide-open spaces. Now they're selling ... The Ann Arbor Chronicle

Five Best Books: Inamoratas And Other Women By The Huffington Post News Editors Greek-born American journalist Nicholas Gage gives us a splendid portrait of opera star Maria Callas's life as the mistress of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Amazon e-book subscription? Publishers should join CNET as well as to deepen the reading experience around books, authors, and genres, Bookish will feature exclusive content covering a wide selection of titles and formats. It will also offer readers the convenience of purchasing print and digital books ... Bourdain to Have His Own Line of Books New York Times (blog) “His intuition has been unerring – suggesting such authors as Ferran Adria and Fergus Henderson,” Mr. Halpern said in an e-mail. “Now he's becoming one of us, sort of.” The deal is similar to Chelsea Handler's imprint at Grand Central Publishing, ... Borders Liquidator Donates Books to CPS NBC Chicago By Alise Blunk AP Hilco Trading LLC, the liquidation company participating in Borders' going-out-of-business sales, has donated more than 8000 books to Chicago Public Schools. Hilco's donation is valued at $130000 and includes titles covering science, ... Lean Management Books Available from SAE International PR Newswire (press release) 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A series of strategic leadership books are now available through SAE International. Books by author Dr. Bob Emiliani illustrate how to stick to the basics of lean management. The books are all affordable, ... Ikea is changing its long-lived Billy bookshelf. Is print dead? Los Angeles Times (blog) And to some, that means books are dying. In other news, Ikea may introduce a newly shaped bath mat, proving that baths will never be same ... or not. Ikea's Billy bookshelf, which can already be adorned with glass doors, will be deeper beginning in ... The Circuit: Amazon  to launch Netflix for books?; AT&T's DOJ defense; Bartz ... Washington Post (blog) By Hayley Tsukayama LEADING THE DAY: Amazon is reportedly working on a book rental service similar to a Netflix-like service, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing “people familiar with the matter.” The service would have customers pay an annual fee ... Union Square backs Wattpad to make reading more social GigaOm In some cases, users create cover art for other users' books and stories. While the Kindle and the disruption of the traditional book-publishing industry have gotten a lot of attention over the past year or so — with e-book authors like Amanda Hocking ... Rally of Friends of the Library: Bring in Your Books! Patch.com Boxes of books are taking over almost every storage spot in the Haddonfield Library. They're stacked five-high against walls, contents identified by neon-colored tags: fiction, history, literature, art, mysteries, romances. ... Jackie Kennedy interviews are full of surprises Christian Science Monitor By Molly Driscoll, Staff Writer / September 12, 2011 With Kennedy-focused movies, books, and television series such as the recent controversial miniseries "The Kennedys," you'd think there would be nothing new to unearth about the JFK presidency. ... Amazon tablet could offer best reading experience Christian Science Monitor It can be assumed that, like many other tablets, the Amazon version will have access to music, movies and, of course, books – though the online book giant would have to figure out how to avoid cutting into Kindle sales. Having a tablet would be a step ... Dr. Seuss vs. Madonna: Can Celebrities Write Good Children's Books? The Atlantic The books are different." She and fellow non-fiction authors of young adult books can spend a year or two working on one book, seven days a week. Schanzer traveled to the Galapagos to research for her book on Charles Darwin's expedition, and consulted ... The About Group Launches the Everything(TM) Series on NetPlaces.com MarketWatch (press release) Adams Media is a division of F+W Media, Inc. The site currently features nearly 400 books online with 800 total titles expected by the end of the year. The current books featured include a wide selection of topics such as pets, green living, budgeting, ... Teacher's Attic puts used books and materials into teachers' hands Greeley Tribune Pat Kennedy looks through some of the teacher supplies and books that she plans to donate to new teachers while at her home in Greeley. A variety of teaching manuals are some of the items that Pat Kennedy will be donating to the next generation of ... Mysterious Galaxy: More Than Books Patch.com "We're at Comic-Con, we're at the LA Times Festival of Books, we are the bookseller for a conference called Men of Mystery. We support two writers' conferences. ... We're partnered already with a number of event companies that bring authors to Los ... Two new books by Tewksbury author released Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com By Hunterdon County Democrat Frogworks Publishing announces the simultaneous publication of two very different books by Tewksbury author, Rolf Margenau. Public Information is a coming of age novel set during and immediately after the Korean War that ... Brooklyn Book Festival and AT&T Announce First-ever "AT&T Fan Fave Contest ... PR Newswire (press release) Fans of each of the 260 Book Festival authors can vote for their favorite author at www.brooklynbookfestival.org/bbf/attfanfave. The three authors with the most votes will receive cash prizes to be donated to the literary or literacy charities of their ... Digitization Bring Shrinking Case for E-Books Wall Street Journal (blog) Now it is the turn of the publishing industry and one place to see its impact, according to The Economist, is in the ubiquitous big blue and yellow furniture store. If physical book sales are falling, what does this say about the furniture we want to ... Borders seller gives Chicago schools 8000 books Chicago Tribune Northbrook, Il.-based Hilco Trading LLC said Saturday that it has donated "academic quality books" worth about $130000 to Chicago's schools. Hilco tells AnnArbor.com (http://j.mp/q6Hiot ) that it selected the books from those it bought from Borders. ... Sixty writers recruit readers at Aurora library gathering Chicago Sun-Times Terence Guider-Shaw~For Sun-Times Media AURORA — Sixty area authors gathered at the Eola Road Branch of the Aurora Public Library on Saturday to tempt  readers to give their books a try during “Catch a Bunch of Authors.” “We get so many requests from ... Northwest Bookfest: Alive and well in Kirkland The Seattle Times Bookfest, a regional celebration of books and authors which migrated around the city of Seattle for several years (most recently in Columbia City in 2009), has been revived and is moving to Kirkland, thanks to support from the city of Kirkland, ... Charitable Authors « Beyond Her Book By Barbara Vey All of the other authors, too. They're friends whose writing we admire and books we buy. There were a lot of cyber squeals in emails between Misty and me as we received acceptances. It was great fun to read the stories as they came in. ... From Samhain Publishing: In September, SamhainPublishing has three great ebook giveaways representing fantasy romance, paranormal romance and red hot contemporary romance on Kindle at Amazon.com and Nook at BarnesandNoble.com. ... Beyond Her Book  Google ebookstore      Powell's Books

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