Classic New York Review of Books Putdowns

Classic New York Review of Books Putdowns
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Christopher Shea Slate's Browbeat blog highlights some classic dismissive comments from New York Review of Books reviewers. The post is inspired by the Harvard literature professor Helen Vendler's recent (non-)response to the U.Va. professor and ...
The Precarious Portentious Perils Of Self-Publishing
By terribleminds
Say what you will about Apple (and you could): at least on my iPad I can read all kinds of e-books. On a Kindle Fire? I can read… well, Kindle books. Then you've got Amazon mobilizing its ownpublishing arms and swooping up authors under ...
TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig,...
Paying authors more might be the best economics for publishers in ...
By Mike Shatzkin
Blogroll. Black Plastic Glasses · BookBrunch · booklab · Booksquare · Brave New World · E-Reads · Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 · Personanondata · Publishers Lunch · Publishing Trends · TeleRead · Thomas Riggs & Company Blog ... Sales in stores are declining and sales of print books are declining but total sales, including ebooks, are holding pretty firm and the big publishers are reporting pretty healthy results. So if declining bookstore shelf space, which we have clearly seen ...
The Shatzkin Files
The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
After the year's best illustrated books for (eternal) kids, art, design, and creativity books, and photography books, the 2011 best-of series continues with a look at the year's most compelling science books, spanning everything from medicine to ..... of present-value analysis, a method for calculating the time value of money perfected by iconic economist Irving Fisher in the 1930s);publishing entrepreneurship (the first edition of Liber Abbaci was too dense for the average person to grasp, ...
Brain Pickings
Thomas Gladysz: Best Film Books of 2011 Are Biographies
By Thomas Gladysz
Technological advances have made the long, arduous process of publishing a book cheap, easy and fast--giving voice to millions of new authors and providing readers with a richer, more interesting selection of books. Melanie Benjamin: ...
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11 Ironic and Puzzling E-Books - Mental Floss
By Colin Perkins
And, while some may argue that e-books are ultimately more environmentally friendly since no trees are cut down to create them, I'm sure the irony of a new type of energy dependence isn't lost on those trying to recharge their e-readers with ...
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John Wilson's Books of the Year » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog
By Micah Mattix
Over at Books & Culture, John Wilson offers his books of the year. I love John's methodology: the best books are those that first come to mind after a year of reading. Here are a couple of the more interesting titles: Apricot Jam: And Other Stories ...
First Thoughts
Books From DAW
By Pat
Pat's Note: Back when I was working on the early drafts of what would become the Kingkiller Chronicle, these books had a huge impact on me. They were huge, complex books, and seeing them in print gave me hope that someday I might ...
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Utales.com Digital Books Review & Giveaway – 5 Minutes For Mom
By Lesley
I found out about an awesome site with a large collection of digital picture books for kids by authorsworldwide that I really think you'll want to check out. Utales.com offers free sign up with a 15 days of unlimited access. Afterwards a full ...
5 Minutes For Mom
Books Being Made Into Movies as of Winter 2011
By Lizzie Fuhr
With Winter upon us, it's time for a reading list to get us through the cold weather. While we may not always have ample time for reading during a standard workweek, holiday vacation is the perfect opportunity to dive into a book headfirst. ...
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Crabbit's Tips for Writers - 4: Publishing Yourself
By Nicola Morgan
My position I have had many (around 90) books published by mainstream publishers of various sizes and I am also self-publishing. I do my own publishing through my Crabbit Publishing brand, through which I have published Tweet Right and ...
Help! I Need a Publisher!
nwhyte: December Books 5) Unrecognised States, by Nina Caspersen
By Nicholas
For some strange reason Nina Caspersen's publishers decided to send me a copy of this newly published book, and I duly took the hint, read it and am now reviewing it. It comes with blurb by Charles King , Stefan Wolff and Sumantra Bose ...
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Time after tea: 2011: Top 5 books
By Megan
This will include my top 5 books, music, outfits, blogs, buys etc. I think it will be a fun little catalogue of some of my favourite things from this year. Feel free to play along on your own blog or in the comments. Today I am starting with one of my all ...
Time after tea
Amazon.com: Kindle Direct Publishing: KDP Select
New books can be enrolled during the publishing process. Simply select the " Enroll this book in KDP Select" option and proceed to publish the book as you ...
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Books that really cook
Kansas City Star
Of the hundreds of food books that were published this fall, which are the ones you really want to have in your library? We in The Times' Food section have some suggestions. After sifting through the lion's share of new releases and cooking dozens of ...
Books, life and a red bandanna
Sydney Morning Herald
''The thing is,'' FitzSimons joked, ''I was talking about me and my life and my books … easy!'' FitzSimons and Glover had sat themselves down to talk about all things Fitz at 10am Sunday, with the plan to chat about one of the writer's 24 books every ...
Five best money books of 2011
Reuters
By John Wasik Dec 12 (Reuters) - I can't say it's been a great year for investing books. It's been hard enough to keep up with the gyrating stock market and European crisis. Fortunately, there are a handful of books that manage to tell good stories or ...
Spanish-Language Book Publishing: Competition from e-books and English ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Furthermore, technological developments such as e-books will likely cause competition from imports to increase, forcing industry players to diversify to remain competitive in the book publishing sector. For this reason, industry research firm IBISWorld ...
Amazon's Publishing Reputation
mediabistro.com
After all, lots of readers buy books through Amazon and it has the majority of market share foreBooks. It's also a good idea to make your eBooks available in all of the eBook stores, to make sure your it is available wherever readers like to find new ...
'Steve Jobs' tops Amazon's list of 10 best-selling books of 2011
Los Angeles Times
Books first published before 2011 were excluded. Amazon noted that two books -- "The Mill River Recluse" by Darcie Chan (#4) and "The Abbey" by Chris Culver (#9) -- were published by Kindle Direct Publishing and made the top 10 based solely on Kindle ...
Publishing industry trying to come to terms with content
Economic Times
Books and films are being developed based on games, music albums are being developed based only on apps. Nick Cave has released his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munrow, with an iPhone app which features a text-to-audio sync of Nick reading the book ...
New kids' books: 12 days of a Washington Christmas and fairy tales for teens
The Seattle Times
Books by Northwest authors and illustrators for children and teens feature the story of a huggable porcupine, the search for Sasquatch and some fractured fairy tales for teens. Wrap them up now; read them by the fire with your favorite youngster later. ...
Penguin joins push for short ebooks
The Guardian
Venetia Butterfield, publishing director of Penguin imprint Viking, believes Lane would have embraced the idea of short digital books if he was still around. "If he was here now I expect this is what he would have wanted. The idea of the paperback was ...
Scholastic Launches "One Million Bookprints for One Million Books" Campaign to ...
Sacramento Bee
The five books that most impact someone's life comprise their Bookprint. They can be children's or adult books and Bookprints can change over time. On the "You Are What You Read" website, more than 200 "Names You Know" from entertainers to authors to ...
More gift books
Washington Post
TEMPLES OF CAMBODIA: The Heart of Angkor . Photographs by Barry Brukoff; text by Helen Ibbitson Jessup (Vendome, $65) For most, the term “Angkor” conjures up images of Angkor Wat, the magnificent temple complex deep in the Cambodian jungle, ...
Young Adult Authors Shouldn't Take Young Adult Personally, Says Diablo Cody
The FABlife
When the first images from Young Adult surfaced on the Web earlier this year, showing Charlize Theron looking bedraggled in her sweats and Mickey Mouse shirt, clutching a Pomeranian in a carrier and a Victoria's Secret bag, several young adult authors ...
Books, best-sellers and way more
New York Daily News (blog)
For more than 20 years I've reviewed books, interviewed authors and covered publishing for the Daily News. Over the past two decades, the death knell of publishing has been sounded several times but that's crazy talk. Reading is a pernicious habit. ...
Six of Lewis Grizzard's Bestselling Books Are Re-Introduced After 12 Years Off ...
Sacramento Bee
By NewSouth Books and Green-E Books ATLANTA, Dec. 12, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Lewis Grizzard, the famed writer and columnist who recalled the mythic South with his folksy humor and nostalgia, is back in bookstores after 12 years off the market, ...
Africa: Books New & Notable 2011
AllAfrica.com
The reality that the authors demonstrate is simply stated and appalling in its implications: sub-Saharan Africa, location of the poorest countries in the world, has generated net capital outflows for decades. One could with small exaggeration say that ...
11 Gardening Books to Give a Gardener for Christmas 2011
ChicagoNow (blog)
Published by Storey Publishing. Gardener to buy it for: Your friend who is always talking about knowing your farmer, where you food comes from, heirloom vegetables, and who you just know secretly judges you when they see you check-in at McDonald's on ...
At Work With: Jeannie Hunt of Jeannie's Used Books
The Virginian-Pilot
Jeannie Hunt, in "Jeannie's Used Books" in Portsmouth on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, said: "I'm never lonely in here. The books are my friends. ...
Five Books for the Geek Dad
Digital Podcast News
In this version, I thought I would focus on some books I really enjoyed this year. Links are affiliate links that will show you where to get audiobook downloads, CDs, ebooks or good old books made from dead trees. Here's my list from my favorites this ...
Northwest books on fin and feather are captivating
Bellingham Herald
Both "Feathers" and "Beneath Cold Seas" make it clear that there are gifts of wonder all around us in the natural world. The trick is to pay attention. BARBARA LLOYD MCMICHAEL writes a weekly column focusing on the books, authors and publishers of the ...
Best Film Books of 2011 Are Biographies
Huffington Post
Looking over some of the film books released in 2011, it's striking how many of the best of them -- or at least the most compelling and interesting of them -- are biographies, memoirs, or biographical career studies. If you have an interest in film or ...
Announcing The HuffPost Book Club
Huffington Post (blog)
Books are not separate from the rest of our lives - just as a song can provide the perfect soundtrack to a real-life experience, so the characters, ideas, dilemmas, behaviors we learn through our bookshelp us "read" everything else that surrounds us. ...
Publishing materials would help encourage young writers
Sacramento Bee
Program leaders are asking for help to turn aspiring writers into published authors. They have asked Book of Dreams readers to help pay to print two copies of the collective works for each of of the 70 participating students. Students range from third- ...
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