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Mammoth book fair offers an oasis amid Mexico's woes MiamiHerald.com "For anyone involved in Spanish-language books, it is an indispensable stop," said Santos Rodriguez, a Spaniard who's the editor of Nowtilus, a Madrid publishing house. In a nation where indirect speech is an art form, the blunt talk of some authors ...

Author at Everyone's Books recounts stories of Vietnam-era draft Brattleboro Reformer Weiner will be at Everyone's Books today at 6:30 pm to discuss and sign copies of his new book, "Call to Serve, Stories of Men and Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft." Weiner said he also wanted people of a younger generation to see what war and ...

Campus California Donates Hundreds of Children's Books to a Public School in ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Campus California donated several hundred children's books to Esperanza Elementary in Oakland, CA for the use of the school library and for distribution to the students. Campus California, a non-profit organization best known through its signature ...

For kids, books' benefits trump modern alternatives Omaha World-Herald She and an Omaha mom agreed: They're sticking with old-fashioned books for youngsters. "Pushing buttons is just not the same as turning pages," said Gretchen McGill, an Omaha mother of four children, ages 2 to 7. "I just can't imagine sitting down for ...

EU E-Book Sales Hampered by Tax Structure New York Times Across most of Europe, e-books are taxed at full national value-added rates, which reach 25 percent in Sweden, Denmark, Hungary and other countries. Printed books, benefiting from an industry lobby, are taxed at a fraction of the full rates — and not ...

Weekender: Children's Author Stiefel Signing Books at General Store Patch.com The Teaneck resident's books are sold to school libraries and offer a unique perspective on a variety of scientific and historic topics. Stiefel, the former editor of Science World magazine, uses a somewhat different approach to reach the same goal in ...

Orbit Books extending digital short fiction program from U.S. to U.K. By Charlie Jane Anders Another sign that electronic publishing is providing a huge boost to short fiction: Orbit Books announced it's expanding its Orbit Short Fiction program, releasing stories simultaneously in the U.S. and the U.K. Says Orbit Vice President and Publisher Tim Holman: ... Stories will be available far more widely, and through all major ebook retailers, which is good for our authors, for fans, and for the publishing program. Expect to see more book publishers moving aggressively into the digital ... io9

Best Books For Video Gamers: Holiday Gift Guide 2011 - G4tv.com By sjohnson You know what they say about gifts, right? It's the thought that counts. If you really want to impress a gamer on your list with how thoughtful you are, you need to buy him/her a book, not a game.... G4 TV - TheFeed

Books with Friends | AndiLit.com By Andi Twitter not only gives me a chance to talk about writing, but it also introduces me to writers I'm so glad to know. AndiLit.com

Real Life in Publishing: Life as an Editorial Assistant - Brainstorm ... By Gina Barreca But it is these same authors who remind me why I got into this in the first place: Smart people writing well about interesting topics who still believe in the book business, whether that means print books,ebooks, books on tape, Kindles, Nooks, ... Brainstorm

Illustrated Ebooks During the Tablet Holidays: Opportunities for ... By Matt Mullin Format considerations when producing complex ebooks – does a title require reflowable text or fixed layout and how does that change the publishing process? What platform and retailer differences publishers need to keep in mind when ... Digital Book World

financial literacy: books - Camp Creek Blog By Lori J.D. did a great round-up of books about money recently. My favorites that he mentioned are Ramit Seth's I Will Teach You to Be Rich (a scammy-sounding title but a great introduction to finance), Andrew Tobias's The Only Investment Guide ... Camp Creek Blog

Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog: First Look: Leadership Books for ... By Michael McKinney First Look: Leadership Books for December 2011. Here's a look at some of the best leadershipbooks to be released in December. 360 Degrees of Influence: Get Everyone to Follow Your Lead on Your Way to the Top by Harrison Monarth ... Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog

What Authors Need to Know About Virtual Book Tours by Dana Lynn ... By Joel Friedlander You've probably heard that virtual book tours are a great way to promote books, but did you know that there are several different ways to showcase authors and their books through a virtual tour? Virtual book tours can ... For more book promotion tips, get her free Top Book Marketing Tipsebooks at www. ... Joel Friedlander is a self-published author and book designer who blogs about book design, self-publishing and the indie publishing life at TheBookDesigner.com. He's also the ... The Book Designer

Ten Ugly Truths About Books « Christopher Fowler's Blog By admin Ten Ugly Truths About Books. I was talking to a writer the other night who was proud that his new book sold 160 copies. I'm happy he was happy, but why do writers and publishers so rarely talk about the numbers? To answer the age-old question, if a book comes out and nobody reads it, it doesn't exist. To sell fewer copies than the Epilogue ... The British fiction authors who sell best are ones who write as if they've recently been in very bad car accidents. *This is a joke for readers of, ... Christopher Fowler's Blog

Ed Gorman's blog: Forgotten Books: Hardboiled American by ... By Ed Gorman He has been a contributor to Artforum, Film Comment, The New York Times, Village Voice, New Republic, Filmmaker and, especially, to the New York Review of Books." With cred like this you might expect his writing to be hoity or at least toity. ... Ed Gorman's blog

TAN Books - In years of publishing, Saint Benedict Press & TAN Books have brought faith- building books to millions of homes. This is our mission... my life's work... and one I ... https://tanbooks.benedictpress.com/index.php 'Fahrenheit 451' goes digital. Is Ray Bradbury mellowing? Christian Science Monitor He was one of the last bastions against the digital age, who once famously claimed that e-books “smell like burned fuel.” After years of resistance, however, Ray Bradbury has surrendered and his science fiction classic, “Fahrenheit 451” has been ... Kindle Direct Publishing Now Available for the Amazon.es Kindle Store MarketWatch (press release) Kindle Direct Publishing is a fast, free and easy way for authors and publishers to make theirbooks available to Kindle customers in Spain and around the world via Kindle and on free Kindle reading apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, ... Travel Books for the Jetsetter and Armchair Traveler MyFox Phoenix If you have someone on your list who loves to travel or is an avid armchair traveler, picking up one of this year's new travel themed books is a sure fire plan to a great holiday gift. Great Journeys by Lonely Planet is a compilation of some of the ... Books for giving: sport The Guardian He gets full-length treatment in David Tossell's Tony Greig (Pitch Publishing £14.99), which argues convincingly that Greig's origins, and involvement in the World Series Cricket revolution, led to his receiving less than his historic due as a player. ... Christmas gift books linger in writers' memories USA Today Click through the interactive book shelf to see what books authors, from Laura Bush to James Patterson to Snooki, fondly remember as the best book they ever got for Christmas. What is the best book you have ever received as a holiday gift? ... EBooks sales to triple to $9.3 billion by 2016 VatorNews Juniper Research released a new report Thursday, called "Mobile Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines & eNewspapers for Smart Devices," estimating that eBook sales would hit $9.3 billion in 2016 as compared to this year's $3.2 billion. ... About Books: Book signing will offer a chance to meet a 'Snow Princess' Canton Repository Paradis, author of the “My Mommy” and “My Daddy” books, and most recently “Snow Princess,” will sign books from 5:30 to 9 pm tonight and Friday at Lynda Tuttle's Art Center at 209 Sixth St. NW. She will be accompanied by the title character of the ... Wrap up these holiday gift books USA Today Famous authors, from Laura Bush to Suzanne Collins, remember some very special books that came gift-wrapped. Click through an interactive bookshelf of their picks. Looking for just the right book to give? We have suggestions for the baby boomer, ... Grammy nominees include audio books from Tina Fey, Betty White Los Angeles Times (blog) Two audio books of memoirs by comediennes, read by the authors themselves, received Grammy nominations this week. Tina Fey's "Bossypants" and Betty White's "If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't)" are both in the running in the Spoken Word category. ... Hachette says France ready for digital books Reuters Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of Hachette Books Group, predicted that e-books would take off in France this year and that the market would benefit from the relatively late adoption of digital reading because it would benefit from lessons learned elsewhere. ... Hinckley 'caught thumbing books on shooting' Sydney Morning Herald He contradicted the government's evidence, saying that while Hinckley had walked past a shelf containing books on the assassination of president William McKinley, the attack on Reagan and on Reagan's speeches, he did not believe Hinckley ''picked up or... Time Warner Picks New Head for Time Inc.'s Magazine Unit CNBC.com It looked outside the publishing industry. Ms. Lang, 55, becomes the first executive from outside traditional magazine publishing to head Time Inc. The choice underscores Time Warner's intention to transform its traditional magazine business into ... Tell us your favourite books of the year, win a Kobo Touch eReader National Post (blog) The fact that you are currently reading The Afterword suggests to us you love books as much as we do. On December 31 we'll reveal our picks for best books of the year, as well as our choice for author of the year, and this year we want to hear from you ... 2011 Indiana Authors Award Recipients Honored Sacramento Bee Presented last month, the 2011 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award named three additional authors with Indiana ties to the list of the state's literary greats. After hundreds of nominations were received from the public and reviewed by a ... E-books 101 course offered in Rockport knox.VillageSoup.com In the past few years, eReaders such as Kindle and Nook have become popular devices for reading digital books, also known as eBooks. Books for the eReaders can be purchased while many classics and other books in the public domain are free and available ... Local librarians name favorite 2011 books for holiday giving Bellingham Herald Schmidt will be one of the authors in spring 2012 at WWU's annual Children's Literature Conference, an event that features some of the nation's top writers in the genre. "I can't say enough about it," Tag said. Hoglund confessed that she isn't an ... Film books of the year: as seen on screen Evening Standard The four most engrossing film books this Christmas are a mixed bag. Robert Sellers's Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down (Preface, £18.99) is a highly partial but persuasive account of how a tranche of working-class lads - Connery, Caine, ... BOOKS: DIANE KEATON in bits and pieces Morning Sentinel By Diane Keaton By Mary McNamara It was always the fragile balance of opposing forces that made Diane Keaton's face so remarkable — those tilted melancholy eyes above that frequent and infectious smile. She seemed in a perpetual state of emotional ... Wine books are great for holiday gifting MiamiHerald.com The authors, English and philosophy majors from the University of Sydney, quote Plato: “No thing more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.” Then they quote Victor Hugo: “God made only water, but man made wine. ... Publishing Technology signs landmark China deal What They Think Following the launch of Publishing Technology plc in China last August, the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry is delighted to announce it is partnering with the China National Publications Import and Export ...

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