Lesbian publishing house founder Grier dies at 78

Lesbian publishing house founder Grier dies at 78
The Associated Press
Naiad was publishing 36 books a year before she and Grier sold the company to Bella Books, another publisher of literature about lesbians in Tallahassee, and retired in 2003, McBride said. Grier was "a savior to isolated lesbians all over the world, ...
Books on Bhupenda selling like hot cakes
Assam Tribune
Banalata, Chandra Prakash and SH Publishers, the leading publishers of books on and by Dr Hazarika, are finding it difficult to meet the burgeoning demands from the book lovers, who have been seen waiting in queues to pick at least one among the many ...
Old books, and what to do with them
The Guardian (blog)
Is mining old books for their pictures or turning them into sculptures a kinder fate than the pulping mill? This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 15.28 GMT on Friday 11 November 2011 .
One iPad Publishing Platform to Rule Them All [VIDEO]
Mashable
At the Mashable Media Summit last Friday, its co-founder and chief creative officer Josh Koppel showed off a single platform built to run the entire gamut of enterprise media publishing. From textbooks to kids books to magazines, to corporate materials ...
All-star authors add stories to illustrator's vision
CNN
People ask what's most inspiring to you and I say boredom, because my head hates a vacuum, so I've got to fill it with something and the thing I end up filling it with is an idea of what to make, and since the things I make are books, then I have to ...
Scholastic to publish '39 Clues'-inspired e-book stories
USA Today
"We know a lot of kids read on digital devices and a lot will be getting e-readers for the holidays." He says none of the well-known authors of the longer books in the series, including Rick Riordan and David Baldacci, worked on the short stories.
Teachers Turn Authors, Publishers
Patch.com
Bunn and Howard said they intend to continue writing different kinds of children's books for various ages. While the pair entered into this endeavor wanting to be just authors, their dreams have expanded. "Now that we have our own publishing company, ...
Michael Miller From Que Publishing and Dmitriy Ayrapetov From SonicWALL to Be ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NASHVILLE, TN, Nov 11, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Guests from Que Publishing and SonicWALL will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a Pearson ...
Publishing Keith Richards can write — seriously
Chicago Sun-Times
“This is one for the books, if you get my drift — you hacks,” the 67-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist joked this week as he accepted the Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography, a prize earned by his million-selling memoir Life. ...
Expensive books exploit students
The Keystone
When it's finally your turn, you walk up to the cash register and plop all of your books onto the counter. The exhausted cashier scans each book and places them into a bag. Then, they push a few buttons on their register and give you your total. ...
Oracle WebCenter 11g on Kindle: Two Kindle Format Books from Packt Publishing
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the Kindle editions of two books aimed at WebCenter 11g Professionals: Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook and Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g. Both titles are now Live and available from ...
Little Ferry Library gives books to kids in need
NorthJersey.com
For the past 10 years, the Little Ferry Public Library has participated in "Books for Kids," a children's book collection and distribution program sponsored by the New Jersey Library Association. Little Ferry's library is collecting books this year ...
25 Rejected Titles of Classic Books
Flavorwire
Posted on 12:00 pm Friday Nov 11, 2011 It's a well-known fact that authors, for all their brilliance, can be less than visionary when it comes to coming up with titles. We understand — so much goes into the perfect title, both from an artistic and a ...
Publishing | Revolutionary road
Livemint
From 1955-75, a small literary magazine in Mumbai published some of India's greatest writers and thinkers, before falling victim to Cold War conspiracies and the Emergency. A new anthology recalls its heady legacy, and its importance to Indian ...
More books (and knits) for the holidays
Austin American-Statesman (blog)
By Etienne Lepine | Friday, November 11, 2011, 10:03 AM The holidays have come early to Knittin' Kitten headquarters, in the form of five books that arrived this week for review. Four are knitting-specific, while the fifth explores sewing, cooking, ...
"Swankville" Authors Finally Speak About Book Controversy
Patch.com
Tales From Swankville authors Siah Fried and Georgie Ikuma talk to Patch about the backlash, intentions, and overwhelming nationwide support. By Wendy Smith Written as a tongue-in-cheek look at parenting, "Swankville" is creating a rift between the ...
Informed Publishing Surpasses 100000 Paid App Downloads
PR Newswire (press release)
11, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Today, Informed Publishing announced an important milestone in its history. It surpassed 100000 paid downloads of the mobile app versions of its popular field guides for health care providers and first responders. ...
Protest books: readers' recommendations
The Guardian
Students protest over university tuition fees and public sector cuts. Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features On Wednesday thousands of people flooded the London streets to take part in the student protests. We asked our book and teen book communities to ...
eBooks workshop held at Avid Reader
Daily Democrat
And ebooks have an appeal that extends beyond just the young and tech savvy. Ereaders allow their users to increase the text size of their books - a feature useful to those with less than perfect vision." The workshop is designed for those interested ...
President Bill Clinton to visit Books & Books
MiamiHerald.com
Bill Clinton will be visiting Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave. in Coral Gables, at 5 pm Dec. 1 to promote his book, Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. He will share his views on the challenges facing the United States today ...
Q&A: Books boost Children's Home
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
8:08 am Tom Roberts, event coordinator for Children's Home Society, talks earlier this week about some of the books he has had published and his work with Children's Home Society in Sioux Falls. / Devin Wagner / Argus Leader Nov. ...
Start-up *OpenMargin Lets Users Share Social Notes in E-Books
All Things Digital
Back in college, there was this trick to buying used books for class — if you were smart, you'd flip through and look in the margins to see how good the notes there were. The idea was, why not get good help, even if it's anonymous? ...
Michael Moore Addresses Occupy Denver, Sells Books — Not ...
By Doug Powers
The book itself is printed by Grand Central Publishing, a division of the Hachette Book Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group, which is traded on the Paris Stock Exchange. In short, no matter how you buy the book, “the man” is ...
Michelle Malkin
Tech Talk Podcast: Children's Books on Tablets - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Deborah Forte, the president of Scholastic Media, discusses how her publishing company approaches the app-creation process and what types of children's books and characters adapt well to the transition from printed page to digital screen. ...
Bits
Is Publishing Too New York-centric? | Publishing Perspectives
By Edward Nawotka
New York publishers have been accused of publishing books for each other – and the writers, for writing for each other. Has a kind of group-think has set in where people — consciously or not — are perhaps working to impress each other ...
Publishing Perspectives
Web Ink Now: The transformation of books
By David Meerman Scott
What is a book? Seems like a silly question, doesn't it? Everyone knows what a book is. Or do they?Books used to be made out of dead trees. Lots of paper and ink. Then we had audiobooks. Ebooksbecame...
Web Ink Now
Share Books & eBooks with Our Troops - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Share Books & eBooks with Our Troops. ... The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ·Publishing · Deals · Bookselling ... First up, E-Books for Troops will help you share your used Kindle with our troops overseas. Here's more about a ...
GalleyCat
This Week In Photography Books
By Jonathan Blaustein
So this week's books are unlikely to give you an Earth-shaking epiphany that makes you to quit your job, or give up your life to Jesus. But they ought to satisfy ... It's a smooth, hard cover book recently offered by Schilt Publishing in Amsterdam. ...
A Photo Editor
Veterans Day: European, Pacific, Wives and Books « The Anchoress
By Elizabeth Scalia
The flag is flying outside, and I just watched some local men in fraternal headgear carry out a memorial service for Veterans living and the dead. For the day, we have pieces touching on aspects of faith in both the Pacific and the European ...
The Anchoress
Booksellers share best practices for selling ebooks | TeleRead ...
By Paul Biba
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... The best approach to promoting e-books is multiple approaches — feature them in general and targeted electronic and print newsletters, advertise online and in- store, train staff, and “just be relentless”— is the collective opinion of booksellers who recently talked to Bookselling This Week about e-book marketing — Paul Hanson of Village Books, Christie Olson Day at Gallery Bookshop & Bookwinkle's ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
A liberal reads conservative books — Marginal Revolution
By Tyler Cowen
A guy named Carl T. Bogus (he's for real) speaks: One striking difference is that the iconic conservative works are about ideology. By contrast, the most influential liberal books of the era are about policy issues. Those works are Silent Spring ...
Marginal Revolution
Friday's Forgotten Books, November 11, 2011
By pattinase (abbott)
Amand a Cross wrote 14 books about Kate Fansler, an English Professor who solved crimes and cogitated on the issues of the day: feminism being foremost in her mind. In this her first novel, a student, referred by Professor Fansler to a ...
pattinase
What I Am Learning About Ebooks, Enhanced EBooks, and Apps ...
By Marc Aronson
What I Am Learning About Ebooks, Enhanced EBooks, and Apps; and some Convention Notes. Posted by Marc Aronson on November 11th, 2011. This semester I have been teaching a course in the MLIS program at Rutgers on digital books ...
Nonfiction Matters
Veteran's Day 2011 and the New Self-Publishing — The Book ...
By Joel Friedlander
... self-publishing and the indie publishing life at TheBookDesigner.com. He's also the proprietor of Marin Bookworks, where he helps publishers and authors who decide to publish get to market on time and on budget with books that are both ...
The Book Designer
Bellwether Media Joins Mackin's Extensive Collection Of Ebooks ...
By eSchool News
BURNSVILLE, Minn. (November 10, 2011) – Mackin Educational Resources has added Bellwetherebooks to their ever-widening collection of nearly 20000 ebooks. ... Known for its unparalleled customer care and customization, Mackin provides library and classroom books, ebooks and online databases, DVDs and more to schools around the globe. For more ... When publishing this news, please only use the names and quotes noted within the news release content. Thank you ! ...
eSchool News
Go-to Authors | ALSC Blog
By Katie Salo
Like many of you, I have favorite books that I use in storytimes. Some are classic works that I grew up with; others are brand-new favorites that have been recently published. Many of those authors are well-known. (I'm talking about Eric Carle, ...
ALSC Blog

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