eBook lending: Libraries go digital CNN International While most probably bought their electronic books on a popular website, you may find a few who borrowed the paperless books from the library. EBooks accounted for 6.4% of all publishing in 2010, according to the American Association of Publishers, ... | ||
Books-A-Million to open 41 stores next month CNBC.com Books-A-Million Inc. is trying to write a happier new chapter in the story of disappearing bookstores. The company said Wednesday it will open 41 new stores in early November, some of them in locations left vacant by the demise of the Borders chain. ... | ||
Occupy the Book: Is It Author Spring? Huffington Post (blog) In the next decade, who will be left standing at the OK Corral of book publishing? And will authorsfinally make a living wage with their 70 percent royalties on self-published e-books -- or will we again be enslaved by the corporate greed of ... | ||
Dear Amazon: I love books. I also love e-books. Please let me have both Telegraph.co.uk (blog) And WH Smith, and Apple, and anybody else who makes e-readers, tablets and other electronic devices for reading books on. I have a suggestion. I own an e-reader. Specifically, an Amazon Kindle. And I love it. I love being able to buy a book within a ... | ||
200 Million Books Sold. Spielberg's Movie Out At Christmas. But America Is ... Huffington Post Hergé was not only mega-successful, he had a firm idea who should bring his books to the screen. As it happened, Hergé and Spielberg were on a collision course. Hergé had seen "Duel," Spielberg's first movie, and loved it; he made a point of seeing ... | ||
Corner Books: Van Allsburg's 'Harris Burdick' taps talent ScrippsNews Now, a group of popular children's and teen authors has taken on the challenge of writing stories to team with each illustration. Their efforts, plus the original illustrations, have been gathered in a hugely entertaining new volume, "The Chronicles of ... | ||
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The IFOA Questionnaire: Rachel Simon National Post (blog) In my current home, which is in Wilmington, Delaware, almost all the venues where authors once gave readings have folded, or cut out their events. That said, I enjoy attending talks by authors, whether about their books or related topics, and there are ... | ||
Wisconsin children's book author Florence Parry Heide dies at 92; wrote more ... Washington Post Gilliland said her mother, a longtime Kenosha resident, was the author of more than 100 children'sbooks. Heide's works include mostly children's books, works co-authored with others, lyrics and poems She also wrote under the pseudonyms Alex B. Allen ... | ||
Jewish authors' time to shine and discuss San Jose Mercury News "What does the publishing industry think about it and what are they doing about it?" Jacobson said. "Most of us know that e-books have changed the public's reading habits. But how has it impacted authors? Have we changed the way we write?" | ||
Subtext Brings Social Tools To Google eBooks mediabistro.com If you want to learn more about social reading and add social features to your digital books, Mediabistro's Publishing App Expo on December 7-8 will explore this new market–helping publishers, authors and readers use these new tools. | ||
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HighWire Press Partners With TEMIS to Semantically Enrich Publishers' Content MarketWatch (press release) STANFORD, California and LONDON, October 26, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- HighWire Press, the industry leader in the provision of high quality hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers around the world and TEMIS, leading provider ... | ||
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Years after the brilliant film critic's death two new books shed light on some ... Salon Through it all, Rhys Ifans — playing Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford and current favorite among the 50-plus candidates proposed as alternate authors of the plays — swans around wearing a fixed half-smile of campy soulfulness, exactly as Vincent Price ... | ||
My favorite Christmas books phillyBurbs.com Although I've moved away and don't always make it home for Christmas Eve, books are still a big part of the holidays in my house. These are some of my favorite selections: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss -- This one's such a classic it ... | ||
Is 'complexity' the key to economic growth? Washington Post (blog) As it turns out, the authors argue, the best way to tell how rich a country will get isn't by looking at things like political institutions, or the rule of law, or even education levels. Nope, it's far better to look at what they call a country's “collective knowledge.” That means looking, primarily, at how many different products a country creates — and particularly how many unique products a country makes, things that no other countries are making... | ||
Best-Selling Author Christine K. Clifford Debuts Two New Books MarketWatch (press release) MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Oct 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Christine K. Clifford, a Minneapolis-based best-selling author who has written eight books including two award-winning books about cancer, has released two new books with Anshan, an independent ... | ||
Books are like the news — it's better when they are social — Tech ... By Mathew Ingram We've written a lot at GigaOM about the future of the book, including the rise of self-publishing and what that means for authors, as well as how Amazon is disrupting the traditional industry. One of the consistent themes is how social books are ... GigaOM | ||
State Dept. Spends $70000 on Obama Books | The Weekly Standard By John McCormack The U.S. Department of State has bought more than $70000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmasgratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams from My Father” more than a ... The Weekly Standard Blog | ||
One Google Books To Rule Them All? | The Awl By Maria Bustillos Lawsuits, corporate flim-flamming, the claims of far-sighted academics and developers, furious authors and artists and the conflicting demands of a sprawling Internet culture have created a gargantuan, multi-directional tug-of-war that will inevitably affect what and how we will be able to ...On top of which, both Google and Amazon have become publishers of books in their own right, Amazon through its Kindle Direct Publishing system and Google through its Google Books Partner Program. ... The Awl | ||
Graphic Novelist Alex de Campi Uses ... - Publishing Perspectives By Edward Nawotka Crowdsourcing the funding to self-publish books isn't a new idea. Kickstarter got the trend going more than a year ago, Unbound took it a step further (just to name two examples). But how about using a service like Kickstarter to sell print, ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
The IPKat: Business cards -- or books for review? By (Jeremy) Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company's Intellectual Property is the latest in a series of books produced by the prolific and etnthusiastic Andrew J. Sherman for the attention of the business community. The IPKat | ||
Writing Tools, Part 3: iPad Applications for Authors | Personal ... By Roger Parker In less than a month, my Apple iPad, as I described in Part 1 and Part 2, quickly became an essential writing tool helping me save time building my brand by planning, writing, promoting, and profiting from published books. This is not to say, of course, that the iPad is a replacement for desktop or laptop ... It allows you to access some, or all, of the Kindle ebooks you've purchased, and it syncs with your Kindle. You can start reading your book on the Kindle, and resume reading on your ... Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel |
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