Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal New York Times Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer's fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that ... | |||||||||||||||
Museum unconvinced by new Van Gogh death theory The Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Two American authors believe Vincent van Gogh was fatally shot by two teenagers and did not die from self-inflicted wounds, but the new theory won a skeptical reception Monday from experts at the museum dedicated to the 19th century ... | |||||||||||||||
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Chimp to Man to History Books: The Path of AIDS New York Times Most books about AIDS begin in 1981, when gay American men began dying of a rare pneumonia. In “The Origins of AIDS,” published last week by Cambridge University Press, Dr. Jacques Pépin, an infectious disease specialist at the Université de Sherbrooke ... | |||||||||||||||
Occupy Writers: Authors get behind the protest movement; Salman Rushdie visits OWS Washington Post (blog) By Melissa Bell Taking up their pens to fight, more than 100 authors have signed up at Occupy Writers, a Web site that launched last week as a rallying point for authors to show their support for the protest movement. Francine Prose, author of “Blue ... | |||||||||||||||
Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre, London, review Telegraph.co.uk With characteristic élan, the Bush has gone for broke with its opening production, commissioning 66 writers to come up with their own responses to the 66 books of the King James Bible, with a cast of 130 actors to present them. The authors range from ... | |||||||||||||||
How to Extend the Loan Period of a Borrowed E-Book PCWorld (blog) I'm talking about e-books, which you can borrow from friends and family members to read on your Barnes & Noble Nook or Amazon Kindle--but only for two weeks. If that's not enough time to finish your e-copy of, say, "The Help," you're pretty much out of ... | |||||||||||||||
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Camtasia Relay 4 To Improve Captions, Add YouTube Publishing Campus Technology The system provides recording, editing, captioning, and search capabilities and offers LDAP integration and support for encoding in multiple formats, including MP3, MP4, Flash, and Windows Media, for publishing to a variety of destinations, ... | |||||||||||||||
Library volunteers rewarded for delivering books to needy Swindon Advertiser By Emma Dunn » VOLUNTEERS who have been delivering library books to housebound book fans for more than a decade have been rewarded for their efforts. Long service award medals were presented at West Swindon Library yesterday to volunteers from WRVS for ... | |||||||||||||||
Former Beacon reporter set for Books Between Bites Chicago Sun-Times BATAVIA — Former Beacon-News reporter and columnist Tom Parisi will be the next reviewer for Batavia's Books Between Bites program. Parisi, a Batavia resident, will discuss author Bill Bryson's book “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” from noon to ... | |||||||||||||||
GigaOM's Michael Wolf Launches eBook Imprint mediabistro.com That's where I'll price my books. I believe strongly in price elasticity of eBooks, so lower is generally better, though I do believe you need to be smart and avoid a race to the bottom and pricing everything at 99 cents. EBN: What tools are you using ... | |||||||||||||||
Bryant publishing book about his terrible, no good, very bad night Open File (blog) He seems to be ending his isolation though, with the news that he's publishing a book about his experiences, entitled 28 Seconds according to the National Post. The book was acquired by Penguin Canada, it was announced on Monday. ... | |||||||||||||||
First read: New books from canine hero Rin Tin Tin to stellar Mark Twain Asbury Park Press By Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, $26.99) By Levi Johnston (Touchstone, $25) By Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28) By Michael Hiltzik (Free Press, $30) By Hal Holbrook (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30) When we were very young and our family ... | |||||||||||||||
At NYCC, urban fantasy authors explained why supernatural cities ... By Kelly Faircloth At NYCC, urban fantasy authors explained why supernatural cities are weird and wonderful. NYCC 2011 books urban fantasy kim .... Manhattan over the years.... There's a reason the Time Warner Center is filled with vampires in my books." ... io9 | |||||||||||||||
Amazon signing authors directly, cutting out the publisher ... By Tom Cheredar books After years of turning the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore business on its head, online retail giant Amazon is now taking aim at the publishing business — more specifically, getting writers to ditch their publishers in favor of Amazon. ... VentureBeat | |||||||||||||||
Heroic Librarians Destroy Books « Annoyed Librarian By Annoyed Librarian It details various reasons libraries destroy books, such as that they have no room to store them or that it's cheaper to destroy them than give them away. One commenter said it would be fine to destroy books, but just .... The massive volume of print books that get pulped every year as part of “business as usual” in traditional publishing makes me glad we're slowly switching to digital formats where there isn't so much flagrant waste. At least libraries have made an attempt to get books into... Annoyed Librarian | |||||||||||||||
Amazon the Publishing House? By Steven L. Taylor Via the NYT: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal Everyone's afraid of Amazon, said Richard Curtis, a longtime agent who is also. ... Amazon the Publishing House? ...With Jennifer Basye Sander, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, noting in an internationally syndicated article last week (sorry, I can't provide a link–I read newspapers) noting that would be self-publishers need to spend as much time designing the marketing plans for their books as they do writing them, it's possible that ... Outside the Beltway | |||||||||||||||
By 2020 digital to dominate publishing says survey | TeleRead ... By Paul Biba TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND... More than nine in ten (92.7%) publishers now sell content digitally, with e-books and apps the two most common formats. More in the article. ... TeleRead: News and views on e-books,... | |||||||||||||||
Food Politics » Five new books about global food systems By Marion It's the fall book season and the food books are pouring in. Here are five good ones, so recent that some have 2012 publication dates. Michael Carolan, The Real Cost of Cheap Food, Earthscan 2011: The chapter titles, all of which start with ... Food Politics | |||||||||||||||
Times Discovers Amazon Publishing | The New York Observer By Emily Witt Wait, did you say Amazon is publishing books? So The New York Times has discovered! And on the front page no less. Publishers Marketplace referred to today's story as “Things You Know About Amazon's Publishing, Rounded Up Into an ... The New York Observer | |||||||||||||||
Amazon Takes a Bite Out of Publishing Business | Adweek By Emma Bazilian Since hiring famed editor Larry Kirshbaum and signing a book deal with popular self-help guru Timothy Ferriss, Amazon's publishing business has been on fire. ... Amazon Takes a Bite Out ofPublishing Business. More than 122 books scheduled for release this fall By Emma Bazilian ... Of course, the traditional publishing industry isn't too pleased, especially considering the fact that Amazon is “aggressively wooing some of their top authors,” according to the Times. “Publishers are... Adweek : The Press | |||||||||||||||
Self-Publishing Review | Blog | Publishing Services Index By Henry Baum Publishing Services Index. I want to announce a major addition to Self-Publishing Review: Mick Rooney's self-publisher reviews (print on demand outfits, subsidy publishers, printers) are now housed on the site. He's really the best writer on this subject working online, so it's a great boon to the site. If you want more of his help, he's ... comments via e-mail. «Lulu Automatically DistributingEbooks to the iPad & Nook ... Authors, Share Your Book with Millions of Readers · Free Book Offer... Self-Publishing Review | |||||||||||||||
Los Angeles Review of Books Publishes eBook Edition - GalleyCat By Jason Boog ... Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · SoHo Publishing Company is looking for a Freelance Copy Editor/Proofreader. next job Disney Publishing is looking for a Editor, E-Books. next job NAEYC is looking for a Editor In Chief. see all ... GalleyCat | |||||||||||||||
The Reading at the Southern Festival of Books « Tiny Cat Pants By Aunt B. The Reading at the Southern Festival of Books. Posted on October 16, 2011 by Aunt B. Oh, you guys, it was awesome. First of all, Peg came by to say hi, even though she couldn't stay for the reading, and I was all “What are you doing here, ... Tiny Cat Pants | |||||||||||||||
Justseeds: Blog: Judging Books by Their Covers: 80 By Josh M. They stretched from 1984 into the early 1990s, and were largely composed of reviews and lists of recently published anarchist books, advertisements from antiauthoritarian publishers, and a short article here and there. I was initially drawn to ... Justseeds: Blog | |||||||||||||||
Will You Read More Icelandic Literature? | Publishing Perspectives By Hannah Johnson Each year, the Frankfurt Book Fair selects a Guest of Honor country with the goal of introducing the international publishing community to the literature, authors, publishers and culture of that country. This year, Iceland was the Guest on Honor ... Publishing Perspectives
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Amazon Signs Up Authors--Publishers Out of Deal
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