Finalists Named for National Book Awards

Finalists Named for National Book Awards
New York Times (blog)
By JULIE BOSMAN For the second year in a row books about war and foreign locales enchanted the judges of the National Book Awards, whose finalists were announced on Wednesday. The finalists for fiction are Andrew Krivak, for “The Sojourn” (Bellevue ...
Bearport Publishing and Scientific Publishing Select ACCESS(TM) Digital ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Bearport Publishing, which offers high-interest nonfiction books on topics that appeal to young readers, such as animals, sports heroes, and scary places, will be making their 150+ book titles available to Pre-Kindergarten to 8th grade readers via an ...
Why Children's Books Could Take Off On The Kindle Fire
paidContent.org
So it caught my eye recently when reading about next month's launch of the Kindle Fire that it is going to include a 1000-title (at launch) collection of children's books formatted especially for the Fire, including Carle's classic (among Hammock ...
Barnes & Noble won't stock physical books that it can't also sell on its Nook ...
Kansas City Star
Barnes & Noble Inc. said Friday that its stores will not stock hard copies of 100 DC books that the Warner Bros.-owned unit is making available exclusively on Amazon.com's Kindle platform - a direct competitor of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader. ...
Maurice on Books: 'The Marriage Plot' will be one of the 'it' books this year
Naples Daily News
We learn right away how she defines herself; through the books on her shelves. She is an incurably romantic English major specializing in Victorian studies. Her senior thesis is based on the marriage plot within the novel. Leonard is studying to be a ...
Peg Tyre: Five books for selecting the best school for your child
Washington Post (blog)
Tyre spoke with Eve Gerber from The Browser about books she thinks will help parents “get smarter about education.” Tyre's descriptions of the books and the full interview are here. What criteria do you use in choosing a school for your child? ...
Packt's Online Digital Book Library Now has Over 640 Books
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Furthermore, for those who have a subscription to access eBooks on PacktLib, subscribers will receive a complimentary eBook download of their choice for each month they are subscribed. Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on ...
Hard Choices: Do Libraries Really Destroy Books?
NPR (blog)
Maybe finding a home for every library book would require a loving book detective to find the granddaughters of authors who know their grandpas from pictures. It's too much to ask, I know. But hey — let me know if you're thinking about pulping a copy ...
Pulp non-fiction: Jarvis Cocker becomes editor for Faber
The Guardian
He will be working closely with Faber editors Lee Brackstone and Hannah Griffiths in what the publisher said would be a "broad commissioning role" which it hopes will help expand its music publishing. Faber is already releasing Cocker's first book, ...
Book industry fights back against debt crisis
AFP
Book retailers have bought 30 percent fewer books in the last two years, and publishers have had fewer titles annually since 2007-2008, when there were 10000 new titles, he said. "In 2010, we had 9000 new books but around 10 percent were in factebooks ...
The Amazon Publishing “Premium”: $100000?
MocoNews
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing's general trade imprint, headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, reportedly paid $850000 for Laverne and Shirley star Penny Marshall's memoir at auction—about $100000 more than the next highest bid. ...
Latina authors explore SanterĂ­a and other Afro-Caribbean religions
New York Daily News
As Afro-Caribbean culture has become more accepted among Caribbean Latinos and non-Latinos in the past decade or two, a number of books by Latina authors have come out in which the religions and spiritual practices related to SanterĂ­a, palo monte and ...
With More Than 100 Publishing Partnerships Now in Place, AcademicPub Moves to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Both announcements were made by Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of SharedBook Inc. A newly inked AcademicPub partnership with Elsevier, along with recently signed deals with ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), Berghahn Books, ...
Romance authors talk about their relationships with music
USA Today
Elisabeth Naughton (her latest release: Tempted) says music is integral to her writing: "I make soundtracks for all my books – songs that somehow touch me, remind me of a character or their struggle and/or just make me think about my books. ...
'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman On Digital Books: 'It's 'Performance Art'
Death and Taxes
... Kindles and other digital book platforms has already changed the publishing industry, and shows no sign of slowing down. As the digitization of books continues unabated, there stand in harsh relief a few authors who continue to resist the trend, ...
B&T, Gardner Books Team to Offer Blio
Publishers Weekly
Bob Jackson, commercial director of Gardners Books, said, "Blio is an exciting development in the fast moving world of digital publishing and Gardners Books is delighted to bring this new software to publishers in the UK. The association with Baker ...
10 of the best books set in Edinburgh
The Guardian
Malcolm Burgess is the publisher of Oxygen Books' city-pick series, featuring some of the best writing on cities including Berlin, Paris, London, Venice, Amsterdam and Dublin. City-pick New York is out on 20 October The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Virgin Books Revives WH Allen Imprint
Booktrade.info
Acquired in 1939 by journalist and writer Mark Goulden, it was the second publishing house after Penguin to use the mass-market paperback format and had a stable of authors that included Richard Nixon, General George Patton, Desmond Morris, ...
GENWI Raises $4 Million From Nexus Venture Partners in Series A Funding
MarketWatch (press release)
Offering one of the easiest and yet extremely powerful cloud-based platforms for publishing content on Tablets and Smartphones, GENWI has created and is actively managing over 1500 apps for thousands of publishers. As opposed to custom building apps ...
Millennium books to become graphic novels in US
AFP
Crusading journalist Larsson was 50 when he died in November 2004, shortly before Millennium became the biggest global publishing phenomenon of the 21st century, selling tens of millions of copies in more than 40 countries. A Hollywood adaptation of...
Authors debunk cooking myths
Columbus Dispatch
She had a baking question for her son, who has co-written almost 20 books about food. Did he know whether the butter she was using to make cookies needed to be at room temperature? The short answer to the evergreen question: no. ...
There's Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books — The Book ...
By Joel Friedlander
So I suppose it's the rule that books about self-publishing that are self-published themselves look bad because the authors are attempting to follow the DIY (do-it-yourself) route to show just how easy it is to publish a book. And maybe that's the ...
The Book Designer
Urtak's new publishing tool creates collaborative online polling - The ...
By Courtney Boyd Myers
Urtak is a publisher polling tool that has been a few years in the making by two Harvard gents, Aaron Gibralter and Mark Lizoain, who are now fully immersed in New York City's TechStars accelerator program.
The Next Web
Books Acquired, 10.11.2011 | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
(On a side note, said bookstore was robbed this week for cash—no books were stolen). 20111011-180425.jpg. I found Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles somewhat randomly, hunting through the “Co”s for something by Dennis Cooper. ...
biblioklept
101 Books FAQ | 101 Books
By Robert
And since I've been meaning to do this for a while, I thought now would be a great time to write a 101Books FAQ–many of which are questions I've been asked, some of which are questions I ask myself when I interview myself. You don't do ...
101 Books
R related books: Traditional vs online publishing | (R news & tutorials)
By mages
How many R related books have been published so far? Who is the most popular publisher? How many other manuals, tutorials and books have been published online? Let's find out. A few years ago I used the publication list on r-project.org ...
R-bloggers
The Book Bench: In the News: Brave Books, Bartleby's Lessons ...
By Alexia Nader
The Italian author Roberto Saviano, who went into hiding from the mafia after the release of his book.
The Book Bench
Traci Nobles, Anthony Weiner Sextee, Is Publishing a Book - New ...
By Rosie Gray
Traci Nobles, the cheerleading coach from Georgia who is one of Anthony Weiner's former sexting partners, is publishing a... ... By Jen Doll. 1. Weinergate · Traci Nobles, Anthony Weiner Sextee, IsPublishing a Book. By Rosie Gray. 2 ...
Runnin' Scared
Another Bookstore Chain Pulls DC Books - Blog@Newsarama
By Graeme McMillan
Barnes & Noble is no longer the only bookstore chain overreacting to the DC Comics/Amazon Kindle Fire exclusive digital deal, with Books-A-Million following in its footsteps and pulling all 100 titles that will be made digitally available to Kindle Fire users exclusively from its shelves. Publishers Weekly quotes CEO Terrance Finley as explaining that the ... Hannibal: Digital publishing isn't the main issue here, it's the exclusivity. Amazon has been single-handedly trouncing the bookstore ...
Blog@Newsarama
Writing tools, Pt.1 - Why Authors Need iPads | Personal Branding ...
By Roger Parker
... life and save a lot of time. Here are the top reasons I recommend iPads to authors and small business marketers: ... Mind maps make it easy to break big projects, like books, into a series of relatively simple writing, self-publishing, and social marketing tasks. Several mind ... If you're planning to write and distribute ebooks, marketing materials, and white papers on mobile platforms and ebook readers, it's essential that you gain first-hand experience reading on an iPad. Reading on an ...
Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel



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