Publishing in Latin America

Publishing in Latin America
The Economist
In books, the picture is more mixed. Publishers are churning out more new titles than ever. Sales in (Portuguese-speaking) Brazil, the biggest market, are rising. On December 5th Britain's Pearson (which owns 50% of The Economist) announced the ...
Opening the books on holiday gifts for readers
Baltimore Sun
By Rebecca Oppenheimer In these tough economic times, books offer a great return on a gift-giver's investment. Relatively inexpensive, they provide hours of enjoyment for the recipient — if you make the right choice. Never fear: the Book Bag is here ...
When it comes to e-readers, do customers still judge books by their covers?
Winnipeg Free Press
"The way that people buy ebooks ... they don't buy them in the same way that you would buy them in a bookstore," Richardson said. "Most books in a bookstore are bought on a whim. People wander into a bookstore, they don't know what they want ... they ...
Authors of Landmark Study on Economic Benefits of Advanced Medical Care for At ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Dec 8, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The authors of a groundbreaking study on the economic benefits of advanced medical care for at-risk newborns today received the 2011 Garfield Economic Impact Award. Douglas Almond; Joseph J. Doyle, ...
BOOKS PLUS: Book clubs for kids, plus a documentary and a special Xmas celebration
BCLocalNews
Red Cedar reading group: Each year, Canadian authors and illustrators create many wonderfulbooks for children, some meant to entertain, others to educate. Red Cedar (www.redcedaraward.ca) readers read as many as they can and decide which ones are best ...
Reading is alive and increasingly electronic
Reuters
Schluep also expects more people to publish their own books. "This is about a direct line between writer and reader," he said. "Publishing is changing and I don't have a handle on where it's going to be, but the movement is towards more people having ...
What You Need to Know About Amazon's Book-Publishing Move
DailyFinance
This move is only the latest step in Amazon's efforts to gain scale in publishing and selling books, the original foundation of its business (well, the selling part, at least). But until recently, Amazon has focused on building its own publishing ...
Books for Christmas: Food
Telegraph.co.uk
Now he is a multi-award-winning television superstar, his books bestsellers. For good reason. He was as passionate in his “rear it, kill it, cook it phase”, as he is now with veg. Divided into no-nonsense sections, the book is full of things a ...
Ready for Christmas: books of the year, part 2
Telegraph.co.uk
Noel Malcolm, Anne Chisholm, Antony Beevor and other critics and guests choose their favourite books of the year just in time for Christmas shopping. David Abulafia's The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Allen Lane) is an extraordinary...
Hidden treasure in bag of comic books: "Amazing Fantasy" worth $12000
Chicago Tribune
The Sun-Times reports: A LaGrange store owner combing through a paper bag full of old comic books says he came upon a hidden treasure: A first printing of the "Amazing Fantasy" comic book in which Spider-Man first appeared in 1962. ...
top 10 Christmas books for children
The Guardian
Mary Hoffman has written over 90 books for children that range from picture books to novels. Her latest, Grace at Christmas (Frances Lincoln), celebrates 20 years since the publication of her classic picture book, Grace. Other 'Christmassy' books by ...
Books by Economist writers in 2011
The Economist
OUR policy is not to review books written by our staff or former staff for at least five years after they have left the paper, or even regular freelance contributors, because readers might doubt the independence of such reviews. ...
Six authors nominated for Pushcart
The Star Democrat
MICHAELS Six authors have been nominated by The Delmarva Review for Pushcart Prizes in poetry, short fiction, and essay categories. The review is invited annually to honor original prose and poetry with nominations for the prestigious annual literary ...
BUSHNEL ON BOOKS: This holiday season offers some great books for kids
Morning Sentinel
By Chris Van Dusen This is one of the funniest children's books of the year, a hilarious rhyming tale about a “mini-monarch” whose kingly ego nearly causes his head to explode. KING HUGO'S HUGE EGO is written and beautifully illustrated by Maine author ...
Racine, Wis. Children Dreaming about Books this Holiday Season
Sacramento Bee
Just 10 weeks into the Racine Reads: Dream Big! program, Racine elementary school children have already hit the halfway point toward their goal to read one million books in the 2011-2012 school year. "I am absolutely thrilled to see Racine's students, ...
Easy does it: Walter Mosley brings back detective hero
Boston Herald
I kept telling them, 'There are 11 books. If you'll go reread them. What's wrong with you? I don't belong to Easy.' I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, ...
Books for cooks
Illinois Times
By Julianne Glatz Books always constitute a significant proportion of the gifts under our Christmas tree. And since most of my family members are enthusiastic cooks, it's a safe bet that some of those books will be cookbooks. Here are two cookbooks on ...
Who Are The Most-Read Authors On The Web?
paidContent.org
Which authors online keep readers coming back for more? Read It Later is delving into its data to find which pieces its 4 million users saved to “Read Later” most often, which authors have the highest return rate and how long-form content performs. ...
How To Compete In Publishing App Business - eBookNewser
mediabistro.com
By Dianna Dilworth on December 8, 2011 11:29 AM Corporations are becoming publishers, said analyst Rebecca Lieb in the keynote address at Day 2 of Mediabistro's Publishing App Expo. In the talk, Lieb spoke about how the mobile content business is ...
Hot new VC hot market: Children's books?
CNET
Dave McClure, leader of 500 Startups, has a different idea: children's books. It may sound old-school, but it's not, exactly, because books now can be read on tablets. "Historically, education has been a hard market," McClure said at the LeWeb show ...
Dyke Publishing Company Offers Elder Care Book at Pflugerville, TX Health Fair
PR Web (press release)
Dyke Publishing Company publishes and markets elder care books and information. The company office is in Austin, Texas and may be reached at: 512-547-3769. The author may be reached at Tom(at)DykePublishing(dot)com. For more information about the ...
Long Island Books: No There There
East Hampton Star
By William Roberson Thomas McGonigle's “Going to Patchogue” is a slight, basically plotless metafictional novel of loss, identity, and discovery. First published by the Dalkey Archive Press in 1992 and out of print for a number of years, ...
Publishing To Facebook Subscribers Shouldn't Make Us Spam Our ...
By Josh Constine
That's likely because it's concerned that if it added a “Subscribers” publishing distribution option, it would allow spammers to relentlessly publish to their Subscribers without having to worry about losing friends. I argue that spammers don't care ...
TechCrunch
Cryptomundo » The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2011
By Loren Coleman
This year's books about cryptids, new species, cryptozoology and cryptozoologists were hard to find, but the few good ones discovered were much appreciated by students and scholars of the field. Rarely were they general works. Instead the ...
Cryptomundo
Amazon Creates $6M Fund For Books Available In Lending Library ...
By Dianna Dilworth
Amazon wants self-published authors to lend their eBooks through Amazon's Lending Library so much so that they've invested $6 million into the project. Today the book retailer announced Kindle Direct Publishing Select, an expanded ...
GalleyCat
Times Higher Education - Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at ...
Lesser's comment appeared within a discussion of Google Books on the listserv of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), which discussion can be found . . . well, by Googling a few of the above words. ...
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Photo Books » The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
By Jenna
I make photo books of seasons, big vacations (beach, camping), holidays, and birthdays for the four of us who live under this roof, so it just feels right to continue on and make some for the visits that we are so blessed to have with Munchkin ...
The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
I Love Books « BookPeople's Blog
By alisonkn
Plus, our amazing event calendar allowed me to meet authors nearly every night of the week and get their books signed. Every time I look at my book shelf and see The Story of Forgetting, The Book of Lost Things, The Tiger's Wife, or Giving by ...
BookPeople's Blog
Whole Story » Blog Archive » Passionate Books for Passionate ...
By Anna Madrona
To help you in your gift-giving quest, we gathered some of our favorite mission-related books that we would love to receive or give this holiday: Walter wants to unwrap The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne ...
Whole Story
Who Are the 'Most-Read' Authors? « Read It Later Blog
By mkoidin
Here, we take a closer look at the most-read authors on the web. First, a quick note on the data: We take user privacy very seriously, and all data is anonymized and scrubbed of any identifying information before it is analyzed by our team. ...
Read It Later Blog
Authors and Online Marketing — Slaw
By Lesley Ellen Harris
For authors on SLAW, you know that in today's world, obtaining a publishing agreement with a traditional publisher means that you have to show your publisher how YOU will market and promote yo.
Slaw
Introducing “KDP Select” – A $6 Million Fund for Kindle Direct ...
By Paul Biba
From the press release: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced KDP Select, a new option featuring a $6 million annual fund dedicated to independent authors and. ... for Kindle Direct Publishing Authorsand Publishers. December 8, 2011 | 10:11 am. Posted in: Paul Biba, publishing. Tags: Amazon, kdp select, kindle, publishing ... 'The People's Publisher' – Launch of D Publishing · Amazon Publishingto Acquire Marshall Cavendish US Children's Books Titles; release them as ebooks ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Richard Heinberg | Oil Depletion Protocol: Books & Publications
Books. The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse By Richard ... Multi-Science Publishing Company Ltd. 2005. ...
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Search-ebooks.eu - Free ebook search engine
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Introducing "KDP Select" -- A $6 Million Fund for Kindle Direct Publishing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Amazon has again expanded the value of their Amazon Prime membership by including access to free eBooks, and they have not forgotten their homegrown authors." "KDP Select is the best way I know to bring my Jake Lassiter series to a new generation of ...
Gingrich, Ahead in Polls, Is Still Selling Books
New York Times
Newt Gingrich, Republican presidential candidate, signed books on Saturday after a town hall meeting with the Staten Island Tea Party. By TRIP GABRIEL Even as he widens his lead in the polls, Newt Gingrich spends substantial time on an activity that...
E-books Pricing Investigated In Europe
ThirdAge
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck, the firm that owns Macmillan, said in a statement, it denied any wrongdoing. "The publishing group holds that the allegations are unfounded," UPI quoted the statement as saying. Google launched its online e -books ...
Justice Department Confirms E-Book Pricing Probe
Wall Street Journal
The European Union's antitrust watchdog said Tuesday that it was investigating Apple and five major publishers over the way that e-books are priced and sold. It will investigate whether Apple and the major publishing groups "engaged in illegal ...
E-Books, Credit Cards, Ahold, Cordray Nomination: Compliance
BusinessWeek
Hachette's e-book pricing method “not only better serves our authors and customers, it has also helped to increase competition and consumer choice,” said Sophie Cottrell, a company spokeswoman, in an e-mail. Adam Rothberg, a spokesman for Simon ...
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