Library has thousands of e-books available to you
Daily Comet
The Terrebonne Parish Library System has e-books available to Kindle users. Amazon has adapted its software to allow Kindle users to download Overdrive e-books. The Library System is a subscriber to Overdrive. You must have a Knowledge card and pin ...
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Banned books week at USF Polytechnic
News Chief
The books, and many others, share a common theme: they have been the targets of challenges and attempted bannings from US schools and libraries because of their content. The American Library Association emphasizes intellectual freedom and the risks ...
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Authors examine America's decline in 'That Used to Be Us'
STLtoday.com
On the last point, the authors mean the United States has been a nation quite different from other countries — founded on a set of ideas (democracy, the rule of law, free enterprise), that had no aristocracy on top of the social order and that ...
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Festival of Books theme is Native American cultures
Rapid City Journal
Not all the authors at the South Dakota Festival of Books Oct. 7-9 in Deadwood are from South Dakota. The organizers do showcase local talent, but they also use the opportunity to connect South Dakota readers with new ideas and writers who may have a ...
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Inmates read, record books for their children
ABC7Chicago.com
Wiard says that when his daughter visits the jail, his voice is known to her and she recognizes him. Ellis tells the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen that feedback has been positive and that inmates are already asking about books for the holiday season.
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'Harry Potter' e-books launch delayed
Times of India
JK Rowling's 'Harry Potter' e-books will now be launched by Pottermore shop in the first half of 2012. Pottermore is JK Rowling's mysterious 'Harry Potter'-themed interactive website which extends and enhances the books' experience to fans who want ...
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Literary festival in Kerala attracts international authors
Times of India
Renowned authors from around the globe are participating in the fourth edition of the Kovalam Literary Festival, which kicked off here on Saturday . The two-day festival will feature an international panel of authors from countries like Pakistan, ...
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Hey Ram! Half of Gandhiji's 11640 books missing, torn
Daily News & Analysis
By Jumana Shah | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA What would be the value of Bapu's books? Books that he perhaps read himself, or he wished to read; books that were gifted to him; books that influenced him in his early years; that transformed him from ...
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BOOKS: Popular alt-history author keeps humble self-image
North County Times
I'd taught history, and done a lot of [historical] movies, but I really didn't know the first thing about publishing. In my deeply stupid arrogance, I decided to use history, which I've always loved. ... And I wrote the first book and sent it off. ...
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Racine Reads wants area kids to read 1 million books
Journal Times
The community-based initiative challenges Racine's parochial, private, and public elementary school students to read a million books during this school year. The winning school will get a $100000 library makeover. ...
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Waterstone's starts a new chapter in bookselling under James Daunt
Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of titles are part of 3-for-2, which means adequate sales for authors who are part of it – but equally means that books not included have little chance of being sold. Speaking to Daunt, it becomes hard to see who benefits from 3-for-2. ...
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Technology comes to the kitchen
News24
That's because the host of the network's Iron Chef America says he's done with old-school publishing and wants to focus instead on innovative e-books. "I want to go where nobody has gone before," Brown said on Saturday during an interview at the New ...
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Jane Austen the ultimate undead writer?
The National
Still, Trollope is, as HarperCollins's publishing director Louisa Joyner pointed out, the perfect choice for Sense and Sensibility, because she and Austen share "an extraordinary ability to combine heart-rending plots with a social acuity". ...
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Tammerlin Drummond: Banned books week promotes free speech
San Jose Mercury News
At least 46 of the top 100 novels of the 20th century, according to the Radcliffe Publishing Course, have been the target of attempted bans. That means individuals or groups challenged the books presence in public libraries and in schools on the ...
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Discover eBooks Oct. 8 at Reston Regional Library
FairfaxNews.com
The gift will be used by the library to purchase more copies of popular books to reduce the waiting time while also purchasing additional titles in the eBook format. The cost of eBooks varies, but it is estimated the library will add 3000 new or ...
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Pam Platt | Banning ideas, banning books
Louisville Courier-Journal
A lot of the objections have to do with people who find their belief systems — religious, political, philosophical or otherwise — challenged or taken to task by nosy-parker authors. Undoubtedly, a lot of the objections are about the trees found in ...
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Framingham book club just for history buffs
Boston Herald
By AP / The MetroWest Daily News FRAMINGHAM — For nine years and 100 books, Mary Murphy and fellow history buffs have gathered each month to discuss their reading — from Abigail Adams and Seabiscuit to Whitey Bulger and the influenza epidemic of 1918 ...
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Publishing without a publisher a novel idea
Yakima Herald-Republic
In a few short years, she has become a publishing sensation, standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Stieg Larsson on Amazon's list of elite e-book authors. How did she reach these heights? By cranking 'em out, ...
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Closing libraries on Sunday is a scandal
Washington Post (blog)
*Libraries are especially important for children who live in poverty, often serving as their only source of books. *Poor children are the least likely to have access to quality libraries or to attend schools with libraries that have credentialed ...
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Kalima translates publications with South Korea's Yuan Media
WAM - Emirates News Agency
The books offer large selections which make children wander and dive into the journey of colours and words in their own world of books. Tens of publishing houses filled in Jusoor's form to assert their desire to join the Initiative. ...
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Books offer a wealth of money-managing ideas
The Seattle Times
And books offer a wealth of insights devoted to investing topics. "Investing Demystified" by Paul J. Lim; McGraw-Hill, 384 pages ($22) Self-learning guide that sorts through a range of investing basics. "Personal Investing: The Missing Manual" by ...
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Books brought women together
Concord Monitor
The program's set was a colorful cafe, where Hickey, Russo and their guests discussed books - 120authors from throughout New England came to be interviewed. "We were amazed that they came," Hickey said. "And more amazing, 94 channels across the ...
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Friends' books « BuzzMachine
By Jeff Jarvis
Friends' books. I was so busy researching and writing Public Parts that I didn't have time to give attention to some wonderful books written by friends. That's such a sin because it's such a privilege to have friends who write books, smart people who are so generous with their knowledge. So now that I've ... It's a crime of publishing that Heather Brooke's The Revolution Will Be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War is not yet released in the U.S. Pssst–editors: go buy it. Heather is ...
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Spiritual Classics: 25 Books Every Christian Should Read
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Editors Note: This collection is excerpted from the book 25 Books Every Christian Should Read with an introduction by the book's editor, Julia L. Roller. Throughout the centuries certain books have had a tremendous influence on Christians ...
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Sending e-books as review copies | TeleRead: News and views on ...
By Chris Meadows
FutureBook's Robin Harvie has a post speculating on whether e- books will soon be more widely adopted to send review copies. The costs for sending ... Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ...
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Flash and Flex Mobile and Tablet Development Books for Android ...
By seantheflexguy
Here are a couple pretty interesting looking books that could be of use for anyone getting into the world of Flash and/or Flex mobile development for Android and iOS. Some of these titles are newer than others and one is yet to be published. They all look like ... You get all of the essentials-from setting up your development environment to publishing your apps to the Google Market Place/Apple iTunes App Store. Develop elementary applications without coding; then realize the power of ...
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Self-Publishing Review | Blog | Search Engine Optimization (SEO ...
By Lindsay
Whether you're self-publishing or you went the traditional route, you've likely been told that you need to have a blog and a website. But, if you're like a lot of authors, independent and otherwise, you don't get many visitors to your site. Leaning ...
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Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog: First Look: Leadership Books for ...
By Michael McKinney
First Look: Leadership Books for October 2011. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. Up, Down, or Sideways: What You Must Always Do to Succeed When Times Are Good, Bad, or in Between by Mark ...
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Authorial Stickiness and Self Publishing - Dear Author
By Jane
Ebooks > Authorial Stickiness and Self Publishing. Book review, romance book ... Have you been buying self published books by authors who have had no previous publishing experience (as far as you know?) Have you glommed on to a self ...
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Of Books and e-Books | Suite101.com
In the future, with the growing popularity of e- Books, will books as we know them become obsolete?... Read This Next. Free Online Poems About Children and Childhood in Google Books · Will eBooksReplace Printed Books? ...
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net
By LaToya Jordan
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement. LaToya Jordan bio ↓ · October 2nd, 2011 · filed under Homepage Feature. Lazy Sunday? Check out what Rumpus Books has been up to this last week. Fingers Through Sweat-Curled Hair — Virginia ...
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The CITE: Barnes & Noble Partners with Self-Publishing Company ...
By Dr. Mark R. Nelson, MBA, CAE
This week B&N and Lulu.com announced a partnership to help self- publishing authors more easily publish and distribute their works via NOOK eReader. Lulu.com is a ... Barnes &Noble VP of eBooks, Jim Hilt commented: "We are excited to partner with Lulu.com to bring its catalog of fantastic eBooks to our rapidly growing community of millions of NOOK owners and readers. Posted by Dr. ... to Facebook. Labels: Barnes and Noble; self- publishing ... TeleRead: Bring the E- BooksHome ...
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