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Google Books app splurts 3 million titles in UK launch
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Google Books promises a vast array of titles from "favorite bestsellers, up-and-coming authors and rare out-of-print books". Two million of the 3 million books are free, while the others are available for purchase after Google deals with publishers ...
Authors Guild Files Amended Complaint in Suit Against HathiTrust
Library Journal
"They could have found most of these authors had they cared to, but it seems they didn't. They just wanted to release e-books for free. They don't take literary property rights seriously, so why should any of us trust their security measures? ...
Random House in Joint Effort on Politics
New York Times (blog)
By JULIE BOSMAN Random House is expanding its publishing efforts tied to the 2012 election by teaming up with RealClearPolitics, a political Web site, to release a series of e-books during the campaign, the publisher said today. ...
Barry Eisler's 'Detachment' From 'Legacy' Publishing
NPR
No longer satisfied with just selling books, the online retailer now has its own publishing arm, which is starting to attract some successful writers like Eisler. The best-selling author shook up the publishing world last March when he walked away from ...
Barnes & Noble to pull DC graphic novels in digital spat
Los Angeles Times
DC Comics' efforts to expand digital distribution of its books has gotten it caught in a battle between two book-selling giants. Barnes & Noble said Friday it will not stock physical copies of 100 of DC's graphic novels that the Warner Bros. ...
Kindle Direct Publishing Now Enables Authors and Publishers to Independently ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is a fast, free and easy way for authors and publishers to make theirbooks available to Kindle customers worldwide via Kindle, on the web with Kindle Cloud Reader and on free Kindle reading apps for Android, iPad, ...
Mainly want digital books? Get an e-reader
USA Today
I mostly want to read e-books. Should I get the new tablet or the e-reader? By Kim Komando Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds a new $99 Kindle. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds a new $99 Kindle. Answer: The brand-new Kindle tablet, which Amazon named the Kindle ...
Adobe Introduces Single Edition Publishing Solution for iPad
eWeek
Adobe Systems has announced a new version of its digital publishing suite for individuals, the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition. At its MAX 2011 developer conference, Adobe announced the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition, ...
Friends of Library offers more than 100000 books for sale
LubbockOnline.com
The event, which benefits the city's libraries, offers used books at prices as low as 50 cents, and has an inventory estimated at more than 100000 books. “Last year our volunteers put in over 15000 hours to get ready for the sale,” said Gretchen Scott, ...
Unread books fill British bookshelves
Mirror.co.uk
The majority of books on British bookshelves never have their pages thumbed, a survey has revealed. Research from Lindeman's wine suggests up to 70% of all householdbooks remain unread, resulting in book 'waste' of 80 books per household. ...
E-books now available from Seminole libraries
Orlando Sentinel
By Eloísa Ruano González, Orlando Sentinel Seminole County residents are now able to check out books without setting foot in a library and worrying about late fines. The public library system rolled out its e-book program this week. ...
Eat Your Books, a new online cookbook indexing service
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
"In the past, I would have gone to the Central Asian section of my books and gone through the indexes," said Mary-Claire van Leunen, cook and retired Seattle software researcher. "I would have looked in two or three cookbooks, and wound up adapting ...
Graphic Books Lists Features New Titles
New York Times (blog)
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES The best-seller lists are aflutter with change this week. The hardcover list leads off with “Hark! A Vagrant,” by Kate Beaton, who became noticed for her Web cartoons about literary, political and historical figures. ...
Truly one for the books
Lancaster Newspapers
Seventy School District of Lancaster teachers receive $75 vouchers to buy used books from the Lancaster Public Library for their classes. Sue Stathopulos of Hamilton Elementary School is one of 70 teachers who received a grant from Lancaster Public ...
Books: The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady
Guelph Mercury
The Antagonist. by Lynn Coady (Anansi, 337 pages, $32.95 hardcover) — It should come as no surprise to observers of the Canadian economy that for the past couple of decades it has been fiction from the East Coast that has most consistently championed ...
About Books: Two area stories collected in Ripley's book
Canton Repository
... smell like its oniony “Slider” hamburgers. “Strikingly True” was released in September. Suggested price for the hardcover edition is $28.95. Three Cleveland authors have become part of the popular Arcadia Publishing history series, “Images of America.”
Mystery writer pens what she loves to read
Vancouver Sun
By Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun October 7, 2011 12:30 PM Louise Penny says her experiences and personality can be found in all of the characters of her books. Acclaimed Canadian murder-mystery writer Louise Penny says her books are allegories for life ...
Books: The Suite Life — The Magic and Mystery of Hotel Living
Waterloo Record
By Bob Gordon The Suite Life: The Magic and Mystery of Hotel Living, by Christopher Heard (Dundurn, 264 pages, $24.99 softcover) — In his amusing history of domesticity, writer Bill Bryson makes it plain that for most of us, having a “home” is a ...
Kettering University to host 2011 Arts & Authors Fair Oct. 14-15
MarketWatch (press release)
FLINT, Mich., Oct 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ten juried artists and 15 authors from three states will have items for sale and will be available for autographs and conversations when Kettering University hosts the 2011 Arts & Authors Fair Oct. 14-15 in ...
Author at centre of literary controversy answers critics
Toronto Star
The three prominent authors say they want an independent review of the book. Gold Mountain Blues has already been sold in 12 markets, including Canada and the UK. “I have great respect for the authors who have explored this rich territory before me: ...
Faith at the Center of the Circus of Sports
New York Times
In that brief exchange, at a time of adversity rather than triumph, Mr. Whitaker unknowingly embarked upon a writing career that has become a phenomenon in Christian publishing and more broadly in the theology known as “muscular Christianity. ...
Logistics of publishing a Nobel Prize winner
Financial Times
Faced with a flurry of media interest and demand for books, publishers who learn that one of their authors has won have sometimes needed to speed-read contracts instead of manuscripts. Even when English-language translations do exist, if a title has ...
Trump, Rich Dad's Kiyosaki Put Twist on E-book Marketing
PCWorld
Though it could be considered a marketing gimmick, the e-signing points to trends in not only how books are published and marketed, but new directions that authors are taking to engage their readers. Books can be a big business and e-books are now ...
Authors to sign books about Cape May
Shore News Today
Two New Jersey authors, Karen Fox and Carole Robinson, will be signing copies of their books 11 am-2 pm Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Carriage House Gallery Shop at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., Cape May. Fox's book “The Chalfonte” reveals ...
Malone books biopic
Variety
Deborah Kampmeier ("Hounddog") will direct the the Gersh-repped Malone as the Southern Gothic novelist and playwright whose books include "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" and "The Member of the Wedding." Plot covers 35 years in the late writer's life,...
Faculty books: Marital communication to mysteries
Arizona State University
Chaos Publishing. Synopsis: The vision of “Ki Inspiring Thoughts” is to inspire all people to live more peaceful and compassionate lives by using Zen stories, object lessons, martial arts philosophy, and ancient wisdom to explore universal truths and ...
Creating Epub ebooks with Sigil: #1 – getting started, by Piotr ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
There is an EPUB tutorial on my website that isn't much of fun read, and the official EPUB standard is available at the International Digital Publishing Forum, which can be a bit challenging for authors who are not technically inclined. ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Great Kid Books: Welcome to Poetry Friday! Poetry Tag Time and ...
By Mary Ann Scheuer
I passionately believe that parents need more information to find great books for their kids. Parents are a crucial source of book recommendations for their children - parents bring their kids to libraries and book stores, children ask them what ...
Great Kid Books
This Week In Photography Books
By Jonathan Blaustein
Needless to say, the photos have re-surfaced, in the proper small scale, as a book called “Tokyo Compression Revisited,” published by Asia One and Peperoni Books. The plates are meditative and absurd at the same time, which is a terrific ...
A Photo Editor
Say Bonjour to the Amazon French Kindle Store | Publishing ...
By Hannah Johnson
Greg Greeley, vice president, European Retail at Amazon said, “Authors in many countries have already seen tremendous success with KDP, like American author John Locke who has sold more than 1 million Kindle books using KDP, and ...
Publishing Perspectives
Ploughshares loves Baltimore « Baltimore Books
By csollod
Three of the 20+ authors included have Baltimore ties, a glorious overepresentation. Elizabeth Spires, Director of the undergraduate program at Goucher's Kratz ... about celeste sollod. Celeste Sollod is the Baltimore Bibliophile. She moved to Baltimore after 17 years in big house publishing in New York, and has been rediscovering her love for literature, as opposed to her love for the business ofpublishing literature, while writing about Baltimore writers, books, and literary events. ...
Baltimore Books
Google's E-Books Store Finally Launches in UK, Australia and Canada
By Chris Greenhough
Brits, Aussies, Canadians: prepare to gorge on cheap (or even free) e-books. Though it's taken a while, ... Posted: October 7, 2011. Tags : android, australia, books, canada, e-books, google books, google e-books, google ebooks, kindle, uk ...
The Inquisitr
Packt Publishing Launches New eBook Library - eBookNewser
By Nate Hoffelder
... Free eBooks Packt has been releasing eBooks since 2007, and in 2009 it also dropped DRM from all of the eBooks it sells. ...
eBookNewser
Paris Review – Staff Picks: Ghost Stories, Black Books, The Paris ...
By The Paris Review
If you have never seen nor heard of the British television series Black Books, I highly recommend checking it out. It ran from 2000–2004 and depicts a mostly inebriated foul-tempered Irishman, Bernard Black, who runs a small bookshop in ...
The Paris Review
8 FREE eBooks on Amazon | Faithful Provisions
By Kelly
Here is a list of 8 new books you can download for FREE on Amazon…
Faithful Provisions
D'Este's list of ten books about World War II that deserve to be better known ...
By Thomas E. Ricks
It is highly subjective: there are literally hundreds of fine books that could have been added; these are merely ten that came immediately to mind and are very worthy." Later this month D'Este will pick up a big fat prize for lifetime achievement ...
The Best Defense
Festival of books | American Libraries Magazine
By Pamela Goodes
The Cat in the Hat hugs 3-year-old Jill Fernandez un the PBS Kids tent during the National Book Festival held September 24-25 in Washington, D. C. The event featured Julianne Moore, who read from her book Freckleface Strawberry and ...
American Libraries Magazine -...
Books Removed from Stack, 10.07.2011 | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
Books Removed from Stack, 10.07.2011. by Biblioklept. 20111006-144432.jpg. Summer wanes into fall; time to clean out the stack of books in my nightstand. Most volumes were permitted to stay, but I'm going to go ahead and find shelf space ...
biblioklept
Archivalia: Auch E-Books brauchen gute Register
By KlausGraf
Auch E-Books brauchen gute Register. Als Mitglied des Deutschen Netzwerks der Indexer unterstütze ich natürlich im Prinzip die Aussagen von Jochen Fasbender: Die Textsuche ist eine nette Ergänzung, kann aber nicht die Funktionen eines ...
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