Best books of 2011: A list of lists

Best books of 2011: A list of lists
The Seattle Times
No comments have been posted to this article. No sooner did November rear its sodden, leaf-encrusted head than best-books-of-2011 lists started coming out. Publishers Weekly, the publishing industry's trade magazine, got there first on Nov. ...
Books of the Year 2011: History Books
Telegraph.co.uk
From weighty tomes on the decline and fall of the West to chronicles of great cities and intricate studies of domesticity and gardening, Dan Jones offers his selection of the year's most gripping history books. By Dan Jones Given the general economic ...
Bradford Publishing is Blogging About Common Colorado Legal Issues
PR Web (press release)
Bradford Publishing Co. is one of Colorado's oldest businesses, publishing legalbooks, legal information and hundreds of Colorado-specific legal forms for individuals and attorneys. Bradford has introduced a new blog to help consumers by providing ...
Books of the Year 2011: 9/11 and beyond
Telegraph.co.uk
After two wars and 250000 dead, what have we learnt, asks Sameer Rahim, rounding up books on the conflict. By Sameer Rahim It started with a vision. In 1996 a terrorist called Khalid Sheikh Mohammed met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. ...
Writers are authoring their own destinies
Sydney Morning Herald
Edwards has found it difficult, however, to persuade fellow writers to exploit their material, not least because self-publishing a quality product requires skill in graphic design, editing and marketing. ''Authors need to learn new skills fast and many ...
Books take a different at our economic woes
Bellingham Herald
"What's the Economy For, Anyway?" is a thoughtful book that injects a note of optimism into what has become an increasingly dispirited discussion surrounding the economy. BARBARA LLOYD MCMICHAEL writes a weekly column focusing on the books, authors and ...
Books contain both virtues, flaws
Sun-Sentinel
And therefore, these two books about Shlomo Carlbach are books that I wanted very much to like, but I had some difficulty in doing so. The first is a collection of his words of Torah on Bereshit and the second is a memoir of what life was like in the ...
Simon Armitage: ebooks to put writers out of business
Telegraph.co.uk
The implications are for both publishing and authors. It seems inevitable that it's going to affect something.' Armitage - who has won numerous awards for his poems, plays and novels - said that writers were facing a difficult time as people talked ...
Books of the Year 2011: Celebrities
Telegraph.co.uk
She writes beautifully, too; unlike the authors above, she does not scream into the Dictaphone but respects her readers enough to compose sentences and read back over them when she has finished. If there are deeper insights into Lumley here, ...
Children's books outstanding presence at Sharjah International Book Fair
Dubai Chronicle
The importance of the exhibition comes from evoking the importance of the paper book in the middle of intense competition between companies putting their e-books products in the market. Participants of the exhibition were unanimous that the current ...
EBSCO Publishing Enhances German-Language Search
PR Web (press release)
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 350 full-text and secondary research databases and nearly 300000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, ...
Digital set draw line at books for tots
UPI.com
21 (UPI) -- Even parents devoted to digital technology are sticking with bound books made of paper for their toddlers, US book sale figures suggest. Sales of books for young children are slow to move to digital formats compared with sales of books for ...
Gift books that foodies of all types will love
TCPalm
By Michele Kayal For AP Everybody knows at least one — a pretentious foodie who insists on froo-froo ingredients, laborious techniques and over-the-top dishes. Well, this year they're out of luck. Because 2011 was a year when cookbooks — even those ...
How Google Saves Publishing: A Swarm of Google+ How-To Books
AdAge.com
Indeed, I suspect that if you really want to learn about Google+, the time spent reading any of these books would be better spent actually using Google+. But, it appears some folks are learning this the hard way. Here's a comment from Amazon reviewer, ...
Libya celebrates end of banned books
Washington Post (blog)
Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported. Titles once forbidden such as “The Secret Life of Saddam Hussein” and “The CIA Files of ...
Report: Amazon Taps Self-Published Authors For Kindle Lending ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
The much-discussed Kindle Owners' Lending Library has been limited to books from traditional publishers up to this point, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is now reportedly reaching out to self-published authors to include their books as well, with ... An anonymous tipster tells self-publishing blog The Passive Voice, “Here's their offer: If I agree to make my ebooks available exclusively in the Kindle store and participate in the Kindle Lending Library, I will earn fees from a fund they have set ...
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Pearson plc's Booktime Gives 6 Million Free Books in 6 Years | 3BL ...
By pearson
Booktime, the free books programme from Pearson plc in association with independent charity Booktrust, gave its six millionth book away at the launch of this year's programme. ... network of business and financial newspapers and online services that are read by millions of business executives and investors every day; and Penguin Group, which is one of the pre-eminent names in consumer publishing, with an unrivalled range of fiction and nonfiction, bestsellers, and classic titles ....
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Rejection Notes for Famous Authors: 'I Don't Dig This One at All ...
By The World Hum Editors (eva.jt.holland@gmail.com)
The Atlantic has a fun round-up of rejection notes received by some now-famous authors, before they made it big. Among them: Peter Matthiessen and Jack Kerouac, whose “On the Road” is dismissed by a Knopf editor as “huge sprawling and ...
World Hum
UK Startup Boxfiction Extends TV Characters in E-books | Publishing ...
By Roger Tagholm
Persons, who is originally from Atlanta, but now lives in London, is a writer and journalist whose work appears in the short story collection Richmond Noir published by Brooklyn's Akashic Books. Together, they established Arkstone Publishing, ...
Publishing Perspectives
Spacing Books
By Elizabeth Spann Craig/Riley Adams
Although in that amount of time, I should be able to write a couple of books, sometimes life (holidays, kids, boring-but-essential stuff) knocks me a little off-track. My editor for the Memphis series brought up a very good point to my agent— production time. Production time is really what's trouble in publishing. There's marketing and ... My son was fussing about one of his favorite authorswho is writing two series at once and how long it was between his releases. “Can't he write faster? ...
Mystery Writing is Murder
Publishing With Teeth: Megan Tingley & Twilight | Pub Crawl | Big ...
By Aaron Hartzler
Long before Taylor Lautner had abs, this Hollywood juggernaut started as a manuscript about teen longing that Sr. Vice President and Publisher at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Megan Tingley, read on a plane. During her ...
Big Think
So You Want to Work in Publishing? - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of ...
By Gina Barreca
They've collected impressions of what life as an Editorial Assistant is like from reading dour novels by young authors, watching Sex and The City or Mad Men, and from movies so old their characters are still permitted to smoke indoors. I believe it's part of my job to help them ... I know three people, two women and one man, who started out working in the publishing trenches who, once their own books were published, were catapulted to literary stardom. For each of these exceptional ...
Brainstorm
Luigi Serafini, Miranda July, Dennis Cooper: 5 Books I'd Read - Arts ...
By Justin Moyer
in which the author discusses five books he'd read, if time permitted. Sometimes, legal treatises don. 1. Living Originalism, by Jack M. Balkin. People say a lot of crazy things about Thee Grand Ol' Constitution. Some think it's perfect in its ...
Arts Desk
The Independent Publishing Magazine: Book Country - For or ...
By Mick Rooney
For so long the self-publishing community has fought for acceptance and recognition within the publishing industry. Just when we have eroded some of the stigmas, and proven that some self-published authors and their books can compete at ...
The Independent Publishing Magazine

In E-Books, a New Player
Wall Street Journal
Publication of the book shows how the growing popularity of e-books, and the rise of social media, is altering the publishing landscape. Mr. Cuban, who made his fortune selling a company to Yahoo Inc. amid the dot-com boom, says that over the years he...
Once banned books now available in Libya
Today's THV
Now for the first time, books banned by the regime are on display in Tripoli. It opens a door, closed for so many years. This was part of their revolution, burning the dictator's ideology, his green book. Taking its place are books they'd never had a ...
Travel Dog Books Appoints Shih Tzu Dog Raja to the Title of CEO, First Dog ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Raja, whose real name is Maharaja on his "official birth documents", is a Shih Tzu dog who has been elected to this CEO title and position of the publishing company Travel Dog Books. He shares the day-to-day duties with his owner and company principal ...
Amazon Taps Self-Published Authors For Kindle Lending Library: Report
MocoNews
... authors to include their books as well, with the chance to be paid out of a $500000 fund. Guess what? There's a catch. An anonymous tipster tells self-publishing blog The Passive Voice, “Here's their offer: If I agree to make my ebooks available ...
Ripley Publishing Wins Multiple Awards for Strikingly True
MarketWatch (press release)
USA Book News gave top honors to Strikingly True in the Young Adult Non-Fiction category in its "Best Books 2011" competition. The book was also named a finalist in the Best Cover Design category. Strikingly True also received the top prize in the ...
Making Green Books Accessible
Justmeans
Consumers often have to browse through thousands of unrelated books when visiting large book websites, such as Amazon, making it far too easy to miss out on hidden treasures. Many authors and publishers risk falling into shadow in this fiercely ...

Travel Tip: Visiting Independent Bookstores
Peter Greenberg.com Travel News
So you can visit the Lincoln Avenue store to browse books on art, design, fashion, and architecture, and then peruse them over a drink in the center of South Beach. City Lights Books has been a San Francisco landmark since 1953. ...



Self-Published Authors Sharply Criticize Penguin's Book Country
MocoNews
(Uploading books to the major etailers is free.) Worse, he says, these authors may use Book Country in the belief that Penguin will discover them and give them traditional publishing contracts—which seemingly has not happened yet. ...

E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Very Cheap | Techdirt
By Glyn Moody
Here in China, nearly 195 million people are hooked on a kind of literature that is virtually unknown in the West, but that is rapidly transforming its authors and a new breed of online media companies into the publishing stars of the future. Web literature or “original fiction” as it's .... We have subscription sites for story serials that have been going for a long time, for example storiesonline.net (mostly erotica) and online-novels.blogspot.com with lots of books. The list is almost endless. ...
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