Authors leave publishing houses out of the plot

Authors leave publishing houses out of the plot
Washington Post
His writing is used as a teaching tool, and he has produced several books through traditional publishing houses. But, for his next book, he might self-publish. Franklin, of Sunderland, takes issue with what the world of traditional publishing has ...
Bearport Publishing's New WOW! Books for Kids iPad(R) App Makes It Easy to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bearport Publishingannounced today the release of the Bearport WOW! Books for Kids iPad(R) app, which provides parents and kids with access to more than 150 nonfiction eBooks on ...
Research and restraint: Two more things to add to your digital publishing toolkit
O'Reilly Radar
But from a reader's perspective, I think traditional plain-vanilla ebooks are doing a great job — you get mystery readers and romance readers and serious literary fans, and they just can't get enough and they're buying more books. ...
Authors Guild Files Motion For Class Certification In Revived Suit Against Google
Wall Street Journal
The complaint, last amended this October, notes Google's announced plan was to allow users to search the text of the books online, using what it now calls Google Book Search. "We are reviewing Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification, and we will be ...
Books: Well, Dog My Cats! Comic Strip Masterpiece "Pogo" Gets Dee-luxe Treatment!
Huffington Post
We can watch old movies and TV shows and listen to classic albums and read great books. But practically speaking, many classic comic strips hailed as influential, ground-breaking, hilarious and the like were simply unavailable or in such a bastardized ...
New Site Will Offer Groupon-Style Deals On E-Books
MocoNews
Rhomberg envisions this as a useful tool for recommending books to friends via email and social networks, but also for bloggers, authors, and journalists: “Think of how video clips are shared by posting a YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) link and now imagine the ...
SRK's desperate to read books
Times of India
One" and upcoming film " Don 2: The King Is Back", he is missing the joy of catching up on books. "Desperately seeking a good book to read. Kindle dried up...bookstores out of bounds...heading to Nagpur would have been nice if I had a book," Shah Rukh ...
Books with real power
Brisbane Times
Amazon's Kindle offers the easiest buying experience, especially if you want to buy books directly through the device. All Kindles come with built-in wi-fi and some include 3G, which allows you to buy books when you're away from home. ...
Library offering free eBooks to all card holders
Louisville Courier-Journal
Some foreign language and children's books may be added later, Buthod said. Buthod estimated that 15 percent to 20 percent of the library's nearly 400000 card holders will at least occasionally download eBooks. The library has offered users the ability ...
World Book Night to spread the word
USA Today
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY Organizers of World Book Night, who plan to give away 1 million books in the USA on April 23, are launching a search for 50000 passionate readers to serve as "book givers." World Book Night will give away 1 millionbooks ...
A few books for your wish list
The Virginian-Pilot
FOR CHILDREN'S AUTHORS, it seems, there's no time like the past. Books for the youngest readers reach back into old favorites from Mother Goose, middle-grade fiction delves into Victorian and Cold War adventure, and one of the hottest young-adult books...
The Most Beautiful Books of 2011
New York Daily News (blog)
BY Alexander Nazaryan A recent New York Times article described the effort of publishers to make printed books more handsome, in an attempt to pry readers' hands off their Kindles (good luck with that). One publisher was quoted as saying, ...
Bookstores gird for holiday-sales battle with e-books
The Republic
Alabama-based Books-A-Million, which refers to itself as BAM!, took over more than 40 former Borders locations nationwide. Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Pittsburgh saw sales over the Thanksgiving weekend rise 38 percent. Barnes and Noble also had a good ...
Books — The Paper Kind — Make a Comeback This Holiday Season
TIME
Sales of good ol' books — you know, those bound things with printed pages — are actually up. The American Booksellers Association, which tracks independent bookstores (which often don't sell e-books and tablets) reported a 16% sales increase over ...
Read for success? India's business books take off
Hindustan Times
But we do business management, self-help books, a lot of biographies, which sell a lot,” she told AFP. Precise data on sales and the size of the publishing market in India are difficult to come by, given the vast unorganised retail sector and lack of ...
Books will always thrive: Borgohain
Assam Tribune
GUWAHATI, Dec 14 – Noted writer Homen Borgohain today asserted that books will always thrive irrespective of all the transitions coming in the society including the competition from the electronic media. Inaugurating the 13th edition of the North East ...
Books allowed: Jail accepts more print under federal decree
The Wenatchee World Online
By Jefferson Robbins SPOKANE — The Chelan County jail agreed that it violated constitutional law by withholding books and magazines from  inmates, and promised to do better under a federal consent decree. Under the terms of the agreement and a revised ...
Turner Publishing Selects Ingram Publisher Services for Distribution
PR Web (press release)
“Over the last nine years at Turner, we have transformed from a publisher of specialty books to a solid trade house, now with multiple New York Times-bestselling authors,” said Todd Bottorff, President and Publisher, Turner Publishing. ...
Food and wine lovers will devour these books
Louisville Courier-Journal
For a year, the authors conducted weekly recipe competitions on their website (food52.com), and here they offer a season-by-season compendium of the best 140 recipes of the year. In addition to practical recipes from home kitchens and beautiful ...
Three new books about writing and language
Washington Post
1Marion Roach Smith, a writing teacher whose classes have proved popular with students for more than 13 years, operates from the premise of “writing what you know.” In The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life (Grand ...
Wheelers Adds 400 New Local NZ eBooks to Their Collection - eBookNewser
mediabistro.com
By Nate Hoffelder on December 14, 2011 1:59 PM In this age of the giant eBookstores its important to make sure that local books don't fall through the cracks. Wheelers, a library and school book distributor based in Auckland, NZ, has recently expanded ...
Nation Books launches Jobs's biography
The Nation
More than 1000 people attended the launch of Steve Jobs's biography in Thailand at the Terminal 21 entertainment complex, hosted by Nation Books yesterday. Nation Books, the local publisher of the Thai edition of Steve Jobs's biography, has launched ...
On the Books: 'Drive' sequel, Tom Sizemore memoir, and how current events ...
Entertainment Weekly
Now he has signed a deal with Atria Books to co-write a memoir that encompasses his childhood, rise to fame, and addiction to cocaine and heroin. ++ Check out this cool infographic from Goodreads that sums up 2011 book stats and the top book-related ...
Drive exceeds 23000 donated books
Statesman Journal
Officials estimate 23000 books — and counting — have been donated during this year's Reading For All Holiday Book Drive. Volunteers still are counting books and expect more may come in, even though the push behind the 12000 books in 12 days drive has ...
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Books on Inequality
By Greg Mankiw
Random Observations for Students of Economics. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Books on Inequality. Recommendations from MIT's Daron Acemoglu. . . .Greg Mankiw's Blog
Jellybooks - Publishing Perspectives
By Amanda DeMarco
Rhomberg envisions this as a useful tool for recommending books to friends via email and social networks, but also for bloggers, authors, and journalists: “Think of how video clips are shared by posting a YouTube link and now imagine the ...
Publishing Perspectives
Melville House Books » Most overlooked books of 2011
By Kathleen Massara
Recently, Emily Temple at Flavorwire ran her choices for the “most criminally overlooked books” this year. We don't want to arrest anyone here at Melville House, although I would like to present my own list of titles that I think are deserving of ...
Melville House Books
7 Things I Learned from Publishing a Book
By Nicholas Tart
I've learned a lot about publishing a book, including a few dirty little secrets. ... I used to struggle with the fact that most big-time authors don't write their own books. It seems sleazy, but it's not. Here's why: People with big audiences don't have ...
How To Make Money Online
Publishing Insiders Wrap-Up: Special Guest Mike Stelzner On Social ...
By Paula
Publishing Insiders Wrap-Up: Special Guest Mike Stelzner On Social Media. by: Paula. Enter Your Mail Address: No Comments » ... About our guest: Social media expert Michael Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner and author of the books Launch and Writing White Papers. Visi thttp://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/. Social Media ... Mike believes strongly in sharing content and getting other authors to contribute content. A lot of times people just want to use their own ...
Author Marketing Experts, Inc.
The Best of 2011: Books, Movies, Music, & More - Hit & Run ...
By Reason Magazine
As we look back over the highs and lows of 2011, Reason staffers, columnists, and contributors select the best books, music, movies, video games, comic.
Reason Magazine Full Feed
$1.99 eBooks from Sourcebooks in Celebration of Jane Austen's ...
By Laurel Ann (Austenprose)
Sourcebooks, the number one publisher of Jane Austen sequels is offering a selection of fourteen Mr. Darcy themed eBooks for only $1.99, available December 13th thorough December 30th, 2011. Here is their description: ... Follow this link to the Sourcebooks website to purchase books from a variety on online eTailers like Barnes & Nobel, Amazon, iBooks and many more. Don't own a digital reader?.... Austenesque Authors (118); Austenesque Books (241). Jane Austen Made Me ...
Austenprose - A Jane Austen Blog
download ebooks uk | e-Read This
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See more at Link in Video 9 11 commission report ebook ebook www.bangla e-book.com mills and boon e-books . . . .
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From Nieman Reports: In digital publishing, content drives length ...
By John Tayman
Editor's Note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their Winter 2011 issue,”Writing the Book,” which focuses on the new relationships between journalism and the evolving book publishing industry. Over the next few days, we'll highlight a few stories from the issue — but go read the whole thing. In this piece ... they were likely to be told as narrative accounts — would be reported and written swiftly, not unlike a magazine piece. We'd sell them on digital platforms as ebooks. ...
Nieman Journalism Lab
E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores | LISNews:
By Bibliofuture
E-Books, Shmee-Books: Readers Return to the Stores. December 13, 2011 - 6:37pm — Bibliofuture. Facing economic gloom and competition from cheap e-readers, brick-and-mortar booksellers entered this holiday season with the humblest ...
LISNews:
Alabama Humanities Foundation donates books to Pratt City Library ...
By Jeremy Gray -- The Birmingham News
They were ordered at a deep discount through Books-A-Million, the University of Alabama Press and Seacoast Publishing, said Jim Noles, chairman of the AHF board. Among the titles Pratt received Tuesday were "A.G. Gaston: Visionary ...
Breaking News from The Birmingham News
This Week's Featured Authors | Envato Notes
By Adrian Try
This Week's Featured Authors. by Adrian Try posted in Authors. Dec 13. Tweet. Congratulations to this week's featured marketplace authors. junus ActiveDen Featured Author: junus. This week's featured author is junus, who has 12 items, ...
Envato Notes
Books of the Year: Page-turners | The Economist
The best books of 2011 were about China, Congo, Afghanistan, Charles Dickens, ... where and why of future labour shortages, the authors analyse the costs and ...
www.economist.com/node/21541386
Publishers Gild Books With 'Special Effects' to Compete With E ...
As more readers switch to e-books, publishers are releasing print books with design ... Even recent novels by well-known authors had designs intended to lure ... noticed more,” said Robert S. Miller, the publisher of Workman Publishing. ...
www.nytimes.com/.../publishers-gild-books-with-special-effect...
SLJ's Best Books 2011
We are pleased to present this year's 65 choices for the Best Books of 2011, chosen from the more than 6000 books reviewed this year. Novels were a standout, ...
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/.../sljs_best_books_2011.html...



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