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Author gives an insider's guide to publishing
Kansas City Star
Q. What are some drawbacks to DIY publishing? A. Aspiring authors are being sold a bill of goods by the businesses that cater to writers who want to self-publish. "Writers own the means of production!" was literally what one executive from (an online ...
Bible manuscripts from Damascus go on rare display
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Precious Bible manuscripts originating in the Jewish community of Damascus, Syria, went on display for several hours Wednesday, offering a rare glimpse at a collection that includes books spirited to Israel in clandestine operations ...
E-books will inspire new readers
The Daily Cougar
By Emily Brooks Five years ago the e-book was nearly unheard of, but this month more than 11000 public libraries across the nation will begin lending Kindle-format e-books through their library websites. The Kindle format joins e-books designed for ...
HarperCollins Children's Books, Barnes & Noble and First Book Announce "If You ...
Sacramento Bee
Consistently at the forefront of digital innovation, HarperCollins Children's Books delights young readers through engaging storytelling in all formats, including ebooks and apps. HarperCollins Children's Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers ...
Amanda Knox book? What publishing insiders have to say
Entertainment Weekly
So Shelf Life asked major players in the New York publishing world about the desirability of an Amanda Knox book. Although some of the editors and agents we reached out to were unwilling to comment out of fear of jeopardizing current or future book ...
Dustin, Kate will read to you
Kansas City Star
So if we're going to put out the work by the country's most celebrated authors, they deserved to be read by our country's most celebrated actors." The arrival of A-list actors also opens up a whole new avenue for marketing books for Audible, ...
Review: Rozan's 'Ghost Hero' Laced With Humor
ABC News
By BRUCE DeSILVA For AP "Ghost Hero" (Minotaur Books), by SJ Rozan: The on-again, off-again partnership between Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, the private detective-heroes of 11 of SJ Rozan's crime novels, is on again. In "Ghost Hero," a mysterious man ...
On the Books: Morgan Spurlock wants to hear about your failed novel, National ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
For those of you (okay, us) who moonlight as authors but have failed to write the Great American Novel, filmmaker and author Morgan Spurlock might be looking to tell your story — especially since you haven't been able to do it yourself yet. ...
Cool books for colder days
Adrian Daily Telegram
By Paul Eisenberg By Trish Marx This picture book tells the true story of Hanna the hippopotamus, a resident of the Budapest Zoo during World War II, and her fellow hippos that are in danger of not surviving the cold winter because of wartime shortages ...
Perseus Launches Self-Publishing Platform With 70% Royalty For Authors
mediabistro.com
The eBooks will be sold through book retailers including: Amazon, BN.com, Google, Kobo, Sony and Apple. eBookNewser has more: “This service will compete with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform, which also gives authors a 70% royalty on books in ...
Publishing Scotland to launch digital fund for indies
The Bookseller
Publishing Scotland has launched a "Go-Digital Fund" to support Scottish-based book publishers develop their digital programmes and bring their books to a new digital audience. Scottish arts body Creative Scotland will bankroll the £20000 fund. ...
Random House in Transmedia Deal with Blacklight
Publishers Weekly
The Random House Publishing Group and Blacklight Transmedia have formed a partnership to work together to create original transmedia intellectual properties as well as to coordinate the development of IP from other sources. ...
BOOKS: Gay in America
Windy City Times
by Tracy Baim, Windy City Times Fifty states, three years, 52000 miles, 140 gay men—and some camera equipment. That's what it took New York-based photographer Scott Pasfield to complete his epic Gay in America book, with both images and text ...
Classic Advice: Please, Leave Well Enough Alone
New York Times
But the new adaptation is necessary, its authors write, because so much of Carnegie's advice concentrated on how to win people over face to face. Thanks to e-mail and texting, however, the authors write, “we lose a critical aspect of human ...
Purchase Featured Books
NPR
Few people in America today know the name Elbert Tuttle, but he was a central figure in the civil rights revolution. It was Tuttle who, as chief judge of the federal appeals court covering the Deep South, ensured that the promise of the Supreme Court's ...
E-Books Mature as Learning Tool
Chier Learning Officer
Continual enhancements in tablet technology allow e-books to increase the speed of engagement. The key for learning leaders is to curate and condense what users access on tablets. Last Wednesday, Amazon introduced its tablet, the Kindle Fire, ...
Adobe Releases Single Edition in Digital Publishing Suite
Folio Magazine
In this new partnership, WoodWing will integrate the Digital Publishing Suite into its Enterprise Publishing System. Accordingly, WoodWing's Content Station, an application that allows editor to create, manage and publish digital content, will abandon ...
More retirees are self-publishing their memoirs as a family legacy
San Jose Mercury News
(Of those, 6 percent have even published ebooks.) through hoops in the publishing world and risk getting a pile of rejection letters from houses whose primary goal is selling books, not accommodating first-time writers. "I want the world to know my ...
Amazon, Apple Accused of Price-Fixing E-Books
Mobiledia
Agency pricing is different from "wholesale publishing," in which the retailer sets the prices for e-books against a list price set by the publisher, a practice publishers andauthors both say doesn't pay them a fair price for their efforts, ...
Doubleday Acquires Three New Mosley Books
Publishers Weekly
Doubleday has brought Walter Mosley into the fold, acquiring two new books in the author's Easy Rawlins series, as well as a standalone novel. Gerald Howard bought world rights in the deal from Gloria Loomis at Watkins/Loomis, and the first first Easy ...
Leading Self-Publishing Service Provider Outskirts Press Pays Authors $300 to ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
About Outskirts Press: Outskirts Press offers high-quality, full-service self-publishing and book marketing services for writers and professionals who are seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide ...
Herman Cain Signs Books In The Villages
WESH Orlando
THE VILLAGES, Fla. -- Herman Cain's pole numbers are moving up, just as his campaign bus moved into Central Florida for a book-signing. Cain visited a Barnes & Noble bookstore in The Villages to sign copies of his book, "This is Herman Cain: My Journey ...
BookRiff Promises Curated, Customized Content | Publishing ...
By Guest Contributor
The veteran of five startups, Grayson joined BookRiff, the digital media company that is a partner of Vancouver-based Douglas & McIntyre publishing company, at the behest of founder Mark Scott, whom she knew from a philosophy book club. ...
Publishing Perspectives
The Publishing Cart Before The Storytelling Horse
By terribleminds
While self-publishing may by this point be a proven path it doesn't remain a guaranteed path. In fact it's no such thing: I know several self-published authors out in the world with great books, kick-ass covers, and they are certainly not selling to ...
TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig,...
New The death of books has been greatly exaggerated – Stephen's ...
By admin
“According to Nielsen BookScan, the publishing industry standard for book sales data, book sales are pretty healthy, with one significant proviso which I'll come to. Ten years ago in 2001, 162m bookswere sold in Britain. Ten years later – a ...
Stephen's Lighthouse
Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (September 2011) | The Big ...
By Barry Ritholtz
I always find it interesting to see which books TBP readers are buying. In addition to throwing off minor referral revenue, the Amazon embed code.
The Big Picture
Webinar on Publishing, Promotion and Tenure – 10/14 @ 1pm EST ...
By Joslyn O.
The Committee for the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing is organizing an online webinar to discuss the role of digital publications and the rapidly changing publishing landscape around us and how these forces intersect with promotion ...
American Anthropological Association
Sterling Releases New Digital Books: Where is My Frog? and Little ...
By Juli
Children's Books, known for publishing a wide range of content designed for children, has branched out into the digital medium with two new iPad and iPhone apps. The books, based on Mercer Mayer's popular Little Critter ...
PadGadget
This Week's Featured Authors | Envato Notes
By Adrian Try
Oct 5th. A big virtual high-five to this week's featured marketplace authors! FWDesign ActiveDen Featured Author: FWDesign. This week's featured author is FWDesign, who has 8 items, including the newest from the Site Templates category. ...
Envato Notes
October Recommendations from Borderlands Books | Tor.com
By Alan Beatts
Independent SFF Bookstore Picks: October Recommendations from Borderlands Books. ... We feel passionately about our books and our community and we're delighted to make recommendations, both in person and virtually. We've been ...
Tor.com Frontpage Partial - Blog...
Questions to Ask Before Writing & Self-publishing | Personal ...
By Roger Parker
For established authors, a keynote speech or an afternoon workshop can more than the royalties and profits from selling 1000 books! ... Books are businesses! Your perspective on writing and publishinga book is likely to change when you view it not as you creative “statement,” but as an investment of time and money that has to earn a payback down the road. Books about topics that your ideal readers aren't interested in, or solving problems that your readers can live with, are not ...
Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
A Guide to Classical Guitar Instruction Books
By Celine Patterson
Mel Bay has been publishing easy to follow, and simple and easy to have an understanding of guitarbooks for decades now. And this book follows this formula. It is clearly written and straightforward to have an understanding of. It assumes ...
ACTV7 News
Adobe DPS Single Edition: Digital Publishing for Small Business is ...
By Technology For Publishing
Beginning in November, you will be able to produce single-issue applications (such as brochures, visual books, annual reports, design portfolios or magazines) for sale or distribution through the Apple App Store, and for a manageable ...
Technology for Publishing LLC
Poetic License: Carmichael's hosts Kentucky authors Frederick ...
By Erin Day
Currently an associate professor of English at Bellarmine University, Frederick Smock is the author of several books and four previous volumes of poetry from Larkspur Press. Titles in his poetic repertoire include Blue Hour and Sonnets, as well as his most recent collection, Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues (Accents Publishing). With poems appearing in The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, The Louisville Review, The Merton Journal (UK), Poetry East, Trajectory and other journals, ...
Louisville.com
Daily Kos: Street Prophets Coffee Hour: Banned Books
By rss@dailykos.com (Ojibwa)
Unlike the other books on the list, "And Tango Makes Three" is a picture book, inspired by the true story (based on an incident at Central Park Zoo in Manhattan) of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, successfully incubating an egg. According to the ALA, it has been challenged due to "homosexuality, religious viewpoint" and is ... 

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