Publishing Industry Movers and Shakers say the future of ebooks and printed books is safe

World's biggest publishers' fair eyes safe future for books
AFP
While electronic books and other gadgets have been all the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fair in recent years, industry movers and shakers say the future of ebooks and printed books is safe. "The printed book and the digital book will both be at the ...
Thieme Publishing GroupLicense TEMIS' Luxid® for Semantic Content Enrichment
PR Newswire (press release)
Thieme publishes 140 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books annually. The company also has a rapidly growing array of web-based products in medicine and science. State-of-the-art online products include Thieme eJournals, the medical student ...
Breast Cancer Awareness: Books That Create Hope
Huffington Post
We think of books as sources of entertainment, or vehicles for information – but they can also be vital supports in dark moments. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we asked our readers what happened when they got a tough diagnosis -- how did they feel ...
B&N to remove 100 DC Comics books from shelves in graphic war
Examiner.com
Last week DC Comics announced Amazon will have exclusive rights to sell the new digital versions of 100 comic books for the new color Kindle Fire, leaving B&N and its Nook Color out in the dark. Miffed, and per store policy of only carrying print books ...
Local books: a history of the Port of Seattle
The Seattle Times
Local books: a Port of Seattle history; new poetry by Christine Deavel; stories of homeless women; and a new photo-history of Seattle's past and present. No comments have been posted to this article. "Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port ...
Jobs death livens up sales of books and memorabilia
Business Standard
Books on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, including his yet to be launched authorised biography, are a hit across major Indian stores and e-commerce sites. Popular brick and mortar outlets confirmed to Business Standard the interest level had risen sharply ...
EBSCO Publishing Acquires Ergonomics Abstracts™ from Taylor & Francis
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology. From our network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, Melbourne, ...
Profile Publishing LLC Offers "Less Government, More Future" at no Cost
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Bill believes offering free ebooks is the best vehicle to achieve this goal. To Cima, America stands on the precipice of what can either be an irreversible descent into decades or even centuries of economic stagnation and declining global stature, ...
Kobo Continues Global Expansion; Partners with FNAC - #1 Book Retailer in France
MarketWatch (press release)
The Kobo store offers a selection of over 2.5 million eBooks, newspapers and magazines with bestselling titles, the hottest new releases, thrillers, romance and over a million free books. Kobo'sEuropean stores offer customers a rich assortment of local ...
An Ode to Cheap Books in a Former Borders
New York Times (blog)
He's backing print books. He's created an ODE to them — right where a Borders used to be. ODE is the actual name of the bookstore that Mr. Carmody opened last Saturday in a large retail space that was formerly home to a Borders in San Francisco's ...
Three Authors Salute Mark Twain
Hartford Courant
Also, from 10 to 11:30 am that day, the authors will sign copies of six of their recent books(including "Sing You Home" (Atria, $16) but not "Zero Day" or "The Litigators") at The Study at Yale Hotel, 1157 Chapel St., New Haven. ...
Adobes to Launch Digital Publishing Suite for iPad this November
Dice News
With the help of this digital publishing suite single edition, one can publish brochures, annual reports, visual books and personal design portfolio as an application for the iPad. With the help of this suite freelance designers could access several ...
For Columbus Day: more nuanced views of Columbus
Christian Science Monitor
Two new books offer perceptive takes on Christopher Columbus and the long-range impact of his famous discovery. By Randy Dotinga / October 9, 2011 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann Knopf Doubleday 560 pp Columbus: The ...
More retirees using the Web to self-publish memoirs
Detroit Free Press
Chiang is among a growing number of first-time, self-published authors in the 65-and-older age group. AJ McDonald, a spokesman at Lulu.com (www.lulu.com), one of the popular Web sites providing DIY publishing tools, says 17% of the 1.1 million people ...
5 Best Steve Jobs Books
By QuickOnlineTips
Here are the 5 best Steve Jobs books which will give you an insight about the Apple founder, his working style and his genius that made Apple the most respected.
Quick Online Tips
Amazon Publishing Launches Sci-Fi, Horror Imprint - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
Amazon Publishing Launches Sci-Fi, Horror Imprint. ... It launches with 15 books, including The Mongoliad: Book One, the first in the five-book collection of stories from various authors including Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. Other titles ...
eBookNewser
Video: How Self-Publishing Is a Game Changer for the Publishing ...
By AbbyJohnsonWPN
He even came up with an idea that uses crowdsourcing to pre-fund a series of books, which has raised over $20000 up to this point. Kukral told us that, while books and newspapers would always exist, self-publishing created opportunities for ...
WebProNews Videos
Authors' Guild Sues U-M Library
By Trent Hansen
The Authors' Guild has brought a lawsuit against the University of Michigan libraries over copyright issues with the Orphan Works project, the University's efforts to digitize books for preservation and accessibility purposes. The lawsuit came as ...
The Michigan Review
How To Make Books Cool - The Rumpus.net
By Stephen Elliott
No related posts... ··· Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. ...
The Rumpus.net
dot.Momming: Young Readers, e-Books, and the Public Library
By Kate
"Regardless of the age of the reader selecting these titles, this is definitely where the bulk of youth e-publishing and use is," Medlar says. "This will continue, and the production of e-titles for tweens and ... Interestingly, many of the tween titles immensely popular in paper (authors such as R. L. Stine and Erin Hunter, to name just two) are not seeing the same demand in e-formats, so this is likely still to take a while to catch up." Posted by Kate at 7:25 AM. Labels: Chicago Public Library,...
dot.Momming
Susan Weiner's Blog on Investment Writing – Your favorite books for ...
By Susan Weiner CFA
Your favorite books for writers. 11/10/11 6:31 AM. My writing books. My post on “My five favorite reference books for writers” sparked many suggestions for additional useful resources for writers. Suggestions arrived via my blog, social media, ...
Susan Weiner's Blog on Investment...
Social e-books as online communities, for AOIR 2011
By Alex
by Alex on 10/11/2011 in ebooks | reader-to-leader | research. Tomorrow I'm off to the conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, an event I've always wanted to attend and this time actually get to present to! I'm part of a session on Books and Publishing, where I will be talking about the e-book research I am now undertaking at Emily Carr in collaboration with Jonathan Aitken, Ron Burnett, Celeste Martin and other colleagues. Our research has morphed a little in the many ...
Alexandra Samuel
The First Ever 101 Books Runoff! | 101 Books
By Robert
So that means we're having the first ever 101 Books “runoff.” I know election year isn't until 2012, but work with me here. Here are the three books that are in: Animal Farm (11 votes): Classic Orwell. I read this book in middle school, so this will ...
101 Books
Ebooks: The New Normal | LISEvents.com
Ebooks: The New Normal will bring together librarians, vendors and publishers, and industry experts and offers keynote presentations as well as three tracks ...
lisevents.com/events/2011/ebooks-new-normal

Packt Publishing Announces Microsoft Dynamics Book Library Service
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Packt Publishing, one of the world's foremost publishers of Microsoft Dynamics books and ebooksannounces the release of a bespoke Microsoft Dynamics library service. The service will offer Packt's current catalog - including books such as Microsoft ...
Amazon Publishing Launches Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Imprint, 47North
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are especially happy to have a diverse list at launch, and look forward to publishing across a wide range of subgenres." -- Together, Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin are the authors of "Successful Television Writing" and have written and/or ...
Give the Gift of Knowledge This Holiday by Publishing an eBook
MarketWatch (press release)
Resources like Lulu, the leader in self-publishing, make it easier than ever for authors to take advantage of the great opportunities eBooks bring to sell more books and reach more readers -- absolutely free. "As eBooks continue to increase in ...
Harvard Business Publishing Delivers New Mobile Application for Managers
MarketWatch (press release)
Our team leverages the management insight, thought leadership, and expertise of Harvard Business School faculty and authors from Harvard Business Review to create tailored leadership development solutions. With more than 20 years of practical ...
Amazon Publishing buys Penny Marshall memoir
Crain's New York Business
But as a tech devotee with a large following in social media, Mr. Ferriss fit the profile of other authors who had made exclusive deals with Amazon. A memoir by Ms. Marshall is different. The onetime star of Laverne & Shirley and director of the hit ...
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