Authors, fans gather for Nashville's Southern Festival of Books

Authors, fans gather for Nashville's Southern Festival of Books
Knoxville News Sentinel
Photo courtesy of David Burnett Author Walter Mosley is among dozens of writers speaking and signing books at Nashville's Southern Festival of Books Oct. 14-16. The festival is located on the Legislative Plaza in Nashville. Authors Jackie K. Cooper and ...
East Tennessee authors a prolific bunch
Knoxville News Sentinel
A real estate agent for 10 years, then director of marketing for a construction firm, Henson never abandoned her avocation as a writer and has become something of a self-publishing marvel. She weaves her day-job backgrounds into this novel: The ...
Digital Underclass 2: The future of books and libraries (PODCAST)
ZDNet (blog)
Some very famous authors, such as JK Rowling, have set up their own eBook stores, to bypass Amazon. But this is the exception rather than the rule. Ultimately this going to mean that less traditional paper books are going to be printed, ...
Friends of Library offers more than 100000 books for sale
LubbockOnline.com
In addition to nearly 100000 books for sale, the event will also feature art pieces for sale including the John Wayne poster. (Zach Long) By Ray Westbrook Lubbock's largest annual book sale is planned Oct. 21-23 at Mahon Library by Friends of the ...
No scriptwriting for Bollywood: Chetan Bhagat
Times of India
His books have invariably found a visual spin in Bollywood, but writer Chetan Bhagat, whose latest work "Revolution 2020" has just hit the stands, says he isn't game to sit and script a film. The corporate executive-turned-author, who admits he has ...
Mitchell Gross: Author 'duped Jewish dating website women out of $4.4m'
Daily Mail
Mitchell Gross, whose books include the suspense story 'Circle of Lies,' duped at least two women into investing about $4.4million in a sham company he set up, using some of the money to buy expensive artwork, a luxury car and a golf club membership, ...
Barnes & Noble in Graphic Novel Dispute
New York Times (blog)
By BY JULIE BOSMAN In the latest salvo in publishing wars over exclusivity, Barnes & Noble said Friday that it was pulling 100 graphic novels from its shelves after the publisher of the books made a deal with Amazon to sell the digital editions ...
Publishing House Seeks Brookhaven Authors and Historians
Patch.com
Bray said authors do not pay for the publication of a book in any way beyond the submission of a completed manuscript. Arcadia pays royalties based on the net receipts of book sales and offersauthors and organizations the option of purchasing books at ...
Apple unlikely to be major seller of Jobs bio
BusinessWeek
But Apple's effect on books so far has not approached its force in the music business. Amazon's share has been cut, less by Apple than by Barnes & Noble's Nook, widely believed to have more than 20 percent of e-sales despite initially poor reviews. ...
Three books on art theft
Washington Post
As the title suggests, the authors focus on the 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt Van Rijin and the vast body of work he left behind, With conservative estimates placing authentic Rembrandts at over 1000, thieves have an ample selection from which to ...
Frankfurt 2011: Going Digital Abroad
Publishers Weekly
In the UK, according to a recent report from the British Publishers Association, e-books accounted for 11% of sales in the country in 2010. In Germany, which a number of American foreign rights directors interviewed by PW called the second-largest ...
Fading hues of books
Himalayan Times
KATHMANDU:Thank you, Madam, but I can't take any more books... You may indeed have too many, but you can't possibly have as many as I do,” says Iztok in distinguished Slovenian playwright Evald Flisar's newest play, Take me into Your Hands. ...
Public library looking at funding source for e-books
Victoria Advocate
These numbers only include the parts of the budgets in regards to books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, electronic reference sources, and - in some cases - mp3 and other ... Below are the budgets for library materials of similar-sized city libraries. ...
Wild at heart
Sydney Morning Herald
Maurice Sendak has a touch of brittle bitterness about him, not unlike some of the characters from his books, which include Where the Wild Things Are. Photo: Tim Knox/Guardian At 83, children's author Maurice Sendak is as angry as ever. Roald Dahl? ...
Books: Women persevere through trials of ancient world
Salt Lake Tribune
By Amanda St. Amand If a world of strong women and their complex relationships with one another doesn't draw you into Alice Hoffman's brilliant new novel, The Dovekeepers, read it for Hoffman's fine sense of narrative, history and detail as she shares ...
Borders is gone. E-books are taking over. Now help us spotlight your favorite ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
One such local bookshop, Wakefield Books in Wakefield, RI, moved into a space formerly occupied by a Waldenbooks (a subsidiary of Borders, also defunct). A good local bookstore knows its neighborhood better than a national corporation does; ...
Mystery writer pens what she loves to read
Vancouver Sun
By Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun October 8, 2011 By Louise Penny Acclaimed Canadian murder mystery writer Louise Penny says her books are allegories for life. "The books are set in this idyllic, beautiful village, where there is a horrific, ...
Books interview: Ronald Reng
New Statesman (blog)
On 10 November 2009, the goalkeeper of the German national team, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passenger train near Hanover. He was 32 years old. Before his suicide, Enke had been talking to his friend, the journalist Ronald Reng, about working...
'Publishing industry moving towards digitalization'
Zee News
Thiruvananthapuram: The publishing industry worldwide is fast moving towards digitalization and there is a strong future for publishers in the digital medium, Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press (CUP) Stephen Bourne said here on Saturday. ...
A book for a buck?
SouthCoastToday.com
Should you feel bad buying someone's work for a dollar? Are you doing the publishing industry a disservice by refusing full price? How did these books end up at The Dollar Tree? Are they even worth buying or reading? I tend to think yes and yes to the ...
'My Last Play' Is One for the Books - NYTimes.com
By By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
The shelves were definitely empty on Monday night when Ed Schmidt wrapped up the final performance of “My Last Play,” his one-man show about acknowledging a lifetime of failure in the theater by giving away his collection of 2000 theater ...
ArtsBeat
Springer to Digitize 65K Tech Books from 1840 to 2005
By Curt Hopkins
German science, technology and medical publisher Springer Science+Business Media, will digitize its entire catalog of books back to 1840 by the end of the coming year, including works by Einstein, Niels Bohr and Sir John Eccles and Rudolf ...
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FREE Alice Turner Curtis eBooks | Faithful Provisions
By Kelly
Checkout the following FREE applications to read Kindle ebooks. FREE Kindle Blackberry App Amazon is offering a free application to load on your Blackberry to read Kindle books from! Be sure to download yours for free now. FREE Kindle ...
Faithful Provisions
Instapundit » Blog Archive » AT AMAZON, bestselling books on ...
By Glenn Reynolds
MEGAN MCARDLE: Debt Jubilee? Start With Student Loans. I am fully aware of what this would mean… HOW DO YOU autopsy a whale?… » October 7, 2011. AT AMAZON, bestselling books on survival skills. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at ...
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Educate The Students With Audio Books | Free Articles Directory
One of these medias comes in the form of audio books. These materials are gaining popularity year after year. These are books that are recorded to heard not to be read. The benefits of learning through these materials is that you can listen to ...
Free Articles Directory
Steve Jobs revolutionized retail and publishing, too ...
By MacDailyNews
But he also helped revolutionize both retailing and magazine publishing through the creation of the Apple stores and the launch of the iPad tablet.” Moin and Wicks report, “Allen Questrom, former chairman and ceo of J.C. Penney, Federated ...
MacDailyNews
Photography Books - PentaxForums.com
By John Poirier
Hi all. I think it might be useful to consider compiling a list of basic instructional books and perhaps websites for the benefit of newcomers to film.
PentaxForums.com
Free Books For Your eReader :: Southern Savers
By Jenny
If you have a smart phone, kindle, nook, or any tablet device then you hopefully already know that are tons of free books available for you. Many times they are for Kindle or a certain reader, but most companies have an app for their reader and ...
Southern Savers
This Week In Photography Books | The Click
By Trent Nelson
This Week In Photography Books. Posted on October 8, 2011 by Trent Nelson · 9f2a30346a7230272268476a823dda51 a photo editor. Three interesting titles… Michael Wolf's “Tokyo Compressed Revisited”, and “More Cooning with Cooners ...
The Click
Christian Publishing in Black and White – Kevin DeYoung
By Kevin DeYoung
Books. What Is the Mission of the Church? Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission. by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert. Don't Call It a Comeback The Old Faith for a New Day. Kevin DeYoung, ed. The Good News ...
Kevin DeYoung

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