Amazon Prime's Free Kindle E-Book List Leans on Filler, Public Domain TIME By Jared Newman on November 7, 2011 The Kindle Owners' Lending Library sounds like a good deal, with more than 5000 Kindle e-books available for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. But many of the most popular titles are filler in the form ... | ||
Scholastic Predicts the Hottest New Children's Books of the 2011 Holiday Season Sacramento Bee This go-to list features books for all ages from a variety of authors and publishers to help gift-givers pick the right books for the kids in their lives. Some of the book picks include new releases and sequels for popular series, such as The Heroes of ... | ||
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Self publishing textbooks online saves Minnesota school district $175000 ITworld.com Books will be offered for free to other districts next year after some updates this summer. (teachers are paid to write the material, and to update it). This follows the spirit of the cK-12 Foundation in Silicon Valley, which provided their free ... | ||
Government Transparency Isn't About 200-Year-Old Books: View Bloomberg Adding to the absurdity, “Kryptographik Lehrbuch der Geheimschreibekunst” had long been in the public domain and was available on Google Books to anyone with Internet access. To be sure, this example verges on satire, but it drives home the glacial ... | ||
Catholic Church-owned German publishing house accused of selling porn TruthDive Catholic bishops responded with a statement claiming that “a filtering system failure” at the publishing house had allowed the books to stray on to the market and that “we will put a stop to the distribution of possibly pornographic content in future”. ... | ||
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Laura Hart McKinny Releases Novel MarketWatch (press release) Blues In The Dark, originally the screenplay Men Against Women, was optioned by Bantam Books in 1999. McKinny's novel "Is a gritty look at the 80's Los Angeles Police Department crucible when the costs of women moving into a man's world were high," ... | ||
Just How Wicked Were History's Most Notorious Women? Girls Decide With New ... MarketWatch (press release) 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Goosebottom Books' new series, The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames, profiles six women who wielded great power, from ancient Rome to twentieth-century China -- women who accumulated nicknames like "The ... | ||
'Mad Men' fans of Needham write ultimate show-themed cookbook Taunton Daily Gazette After selling the idea, the two authors hunkered down to finish the book before their May 2011 deadline. They started out by watching every episode of “Mad Men,” studying the food the characters were eating, watching commentary and taking notes. ... | ||
Books versus bullets in Nigeria's northeast Radio Netherlands Boko Haram translates from Hausa, a trading language spoken in the Sahel region, as books are forbidden. The group's founder, Yusuf Mohammed, now deceased, told his followers that Western education has corrupted the minds of Nigeria's ruling elites. ... | ||
Books: A look at 'Decoding Gardening Advice' | The Republic The Republic By SUSAN BANKS - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Jeff Gillman. I have often said I wanted to found a group called the Commonsense Gardeners because, truth be told, common sense is lacking in a great many areas of life, gardening included. ... | ||
Not So Childish Kids' Books The Quad News Authors have taken direct shots at the classic by Shel Silverstein, "The Giving Tree." It has been transformed at the hands of aptly named writer Shrill Travesty, into "The Taking Tree: a selfish parody." There are more ambiguously-trounced tales of ... | ||
Two authors to sign recent Lincoln books November 19 at Presidential Museum Store Canton Daily Ledger By Anonymous The selling of Lincoln in contemporary America and the recollections of people who actually knew Abraham Lincoln are the subjects of two recent books, and the authors will signbooks and meet the public on Saturday, Nov. ... | ||
Publishers Weekly posts its best books of 2011 lists Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel Trade publication Publishers Weekly has posted its BestBooks 2011 lists, 100 books for adults (plus another 40 children's titles) across multiple categories, including fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, romance, SF, ... | ||
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Bill Clinton Slams Antigovernment Zealots, Dodges Blame: Books San Francisco Chronicle That quotation echoes dozens of books on the crisis, by authors across the political spectrum. Yet Clinton's argument suffers from two troubling facts. One is that he occupied the White House for eight of those 30 years and contributed to the mortgage ... | ||
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How to Load Up Your Ereader with Ebooks For Free By Alan Henry While the Kindle Lending Library is a great addition to Amazon's lineup of services for Amazon Prime members, it is a bit limited in that you only have access to about 5000 books right now, and you can only check out a few books per Prime account, no matter how many Kindles, ... OverDrive is a digital distribution and publishing company that partners with thousands of libraries, schools, and universities around the globe to give users access to ebooks on any device they may own. ... Lifehacker | ||
My Books of Electrons! | Justine Larbalestier By Justine Not for me, because I dreamed of having books of electrons, and piteously begged my publishers to make it so.1 And certainly not for the would-be purchaser of said electrificated tomes. “No, sorry they're not,” I would say mournfully. They would demand to know, “Why? What is wrong with you ...How much books cost is yet another thing we humble authors are not consulted on. [↩]; Down with exclusivity! [↩]. Posted by Justine at 14:35, 7 November 2011 under Admin, Fans & readers, ... Justine Larbalestier | ||
SF Signal: Prime Books Sells Magazines Lightspeed and Fantasy to ... By John "With the continuing expansion and success of Prime Books, my attention and time is increasingly consumed by book publishing," publisher Sean Wallace said. "With John already doing a terrific job as editor, it simply made sense for him to ... SF Signal | ||
Has China Found the Future of Publishing? | China Digital Times ... By Sophie Beach Publishing Perspectives has more details: a growing number of self-publishing websites host thousands of free-to-read web serials – anything from historical epics to sci-fi – posted by theirauthors. As a serial gathers critical mass, the author is ... China Digital Times (CDT) | ||
So, Read Any Good Books Lately? - CelticsBlog By Jeff Clark (Sorry, I just don't have the stomach for that today and by now you know where to get more in depth coverage on the subject); A diversion. (I'm happy to try to help). So, to repeat the title, have you read any good books lately? If so, please share ... CelticsBlog | ||
Walrus: The Struggles of an E-book Start-up in Paris | Publishing ... By Olivia Snaije “One went on to radio, another into graphic design and I went towards publishing and worked in a bookshop; books have been my passion since I was a child.” Walrus was a way to “put together music, film and books.” Walrus has published several books in French ... “Ideally, authors from this generation would write for e-books, integrating enhancement specifically for their books. They would not be adaptations of print books. If tomorrow Stephen King decided that he would write an ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
Publishing App Expo in NYC will focus on how to build money ... By Sponsored Post This post is sponsored by Mediabistro Join Mediabistro at Publishing App Expo in New York, December 7-8, and get an inside look at how to build apps within budget, maximize discoverability, and monetize content across all publishing ... VentureBeat | ||
iLibrarian » Open Access Publishing with Drupal By Ellyssa The latest issue of the Code4Lib journal has an excellent article by Nina McHale, Assistant Systems Administrator at the Arapahoe Library District, on the topic of Open Access Publishing with Drupal. If you're considering moving to an open ... iLibrarian | ||
Anand M. Saxena, Ace Frehley, Bruce Adams: 5 Books I'd Read ... By Justin Moyer Five Books I'd Read. Posted by Justin Moyer on Nov. 7, 2011 at 10:41 am. in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted. 1. The Vegetarian Imperative, by Anand M. Saxena. Dear Occupy Wall St./D.C./Oakland/Berlin/Milan/ Honolulu/Darfur/et. al.: I don't wanna see any of you crusty motherf*ckers eating a hamburger, a hot dog, ... What about publishing a book with two co-authors? I've got you dead to rights on that one. 3. The Continuing Case of Manny Tippitoes ... Arts Desk | ||
IBM Research: Japan Braille Library digitizing books for the blind By June Namioka The Japan Braille Library is creating digital versions of international standards-based Braille books, and audio books to improve accessibility for the visually impaired who may not have access to printed materials. Each year, more than 9000 ... IBM Research | ||
Kindle Lending Library – what about the authors? | TeleRead: News ... By Paul Biba This article in Moconews raises a lot of questions. How do authors get paid? The publishers who agreed to include their books in the program are receiving a. ... TeleRead - News and views onebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... TeleRead: News and views on e-books,... | ||
GreenBeanTeenQueen: Why I Think Books Will Last By GreenBeanTeenQueen A Note to Authors/Publishers: I would be happy to read and review your book. If I you have a ...Whenever I meet someone new and tell them I'm a librarian, it seems they always ask the same thing-"what do you think of ebooks?" It's like they ... GreenBeanTeenQueen | ||
Authors and Book Piracy | Rachelle Gardner By Rachelle Gardner Lately I'm getting more frequent emails from my authors, reporting that they found another piracy website illegally offering their books. Everyone wants to know what to do about it, and understandably there's a lot of hand-wringing over potential ... Rachelle Gardner | ||
Sewing books: Fresh Quilting + 123 Sew — whip up By kath_red November: Month of books at Whipup.net 1, 2, 3 Sew: Build Your Skills with 33 Simple Sewing Projects by Ellen Luckett Baker, published by Chronicle books. When I say I love Chronicle books, it's not because they are also the. whip up | ||
Books - Family Christian Stores These are the things found between the pages of your favorite books and why you can't… seem… to put… them down. Find yourself inspired, be transported to ... www.familychristian.com/books.html |
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