New Kindle Feature Lets You Ask Authors Questions

New Kindle Feature Lets You Ask Authors Questions PCWorld (blog) The @author program is in beta release, and a few well-known writers are participating, including Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief) and Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad). Amazon has a list of participating authors here. Sorry, you can't query dead ...

Sony Reader Gets Update, Harry Potter EBooks PC Magazine Sony's other ploy with the launch of the new Reader is its partnership with Pottermore, JK Rowling's new site dedicated to the Harry Potter ebooks. Sony will be offering a limited edition Potter-branded Reader Wi-Fi, which will come with a voucher ...

'Artemis Fowl' author Eoin Colfer's 'Plugged' isn't for kids Los Angeles Times The seven books in the series have been translated into 40 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Yet despite his success, there comes a time when a writer just wants to write about something more adult, like a down-on-his-luck Irish ...

JibJab founders give e-card strategy a twist for kids' books USA Today "For kids books, you want color, touch-screen and interactivity," he says. Nicholas Callaway began publishing children's books in 1994 with the release of the Miss Spider series. But he quit the traditional publishing business in 2010 to focus solely...

Edinburgh international book festival launches publishing project The Guardian New work by around 50 leading authors curated by the Edinburgh international book festival is to be released in a new collection under an innovative publishing deal involving an award-winning publisher. The four-volume collection, on the theme of ...

'Textbook Rebellion' pushes for free, open books Washington Post (blog) On Wednesday the rebellion leaders promoted Flat World Knowledge, a new publishing company that provides free digital versions of its peer-reviewed textbooks. Print copies are also available for $20 to $40. Charles Stangor, a U-Md. psychology professor ...

Lisle cops: Thief was really cleaning out library Chicago Daily Herald By Bob Smith A Glen Ellyn man charged with stealing thousands of books, DVDs and other materials apparently was cleaning out the Lisle Public Library in more ways than one, authorities said Wednesday. Lisle Watch Cmdr. Ron Wilke said the man, ...

Books With Soundtracks: The Future of Reading? The Atlantic Booktrack hopes to create soundtracks for biographies, history books, textbooks—"Sort of the gamut," says Booktrack's VP of Publishing, Brooke Geahan. "We see the opportunity being limitless." She and Cameron pointed to a study they commissioned from ...

E-Book Market Partially "Subsidized" by Physical Bookstores: Simba Information MarketWatch (press release) STAMFORD, CT, Aug 31, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A recent report by media andpublishing forecast firm Simba Information found that even though bookstores have lost some of their customer base over the years, the channel feeds into the e-book ...

Lagardère Profit Tumbles 65% Wall Street Journal Mr. Lagardère pledged to prune the businesses into a pure media group built around four pillars: bookpublishing, media in France, travel retail and sports marketing. His efforts have yet to pay off. In the past five years, Lagardère's share price has ...

Bill brings bargain books Texas A&M The Battalion In writing HB33, Branch addressed student concerns with publishers who include software with new textbooks to force students to buy their books. "I pushed people on the bundling language because the IT software PIN [is formatted in such a way] that it ...

Publishers are set to launch a torrent of fiction and nonfiction releases Kansas City Star By JANE HENDERSON It's shaping up as a particularly strong season for fiction, and so many popular children's authors have new titles that it's a wonder that anyone thinks reading is in a death spiral. (Information is culled from publishers, ...

There Are No Boy Books Huffington Post (blog) I did not set out to write a series of "boy books." I am a boy and have been since I was born, so perhaps it was inevitable. But a recent Twitter conversation on the topic of writing for girls vs. boys among middle grade writers, readers, ...

Continue Publishing 'Statistical Abstract' Wheeling News Register Publishing the material costs relatively little in the context of a $4 trillion-a-year federal government. This is, after all, "the information age." It is a time when Americans need more, not less, access to critical facts and figures. ...

Kashmir Litfest Canceled as Authors Balk Wall Street Journal (blog) By Margherita Stancati A row over plans for a Kashmiri literary festival has led organizers to pull the plug on the event, posing the question of how much normalcy is okay for the troubled Himalayan region. In one corner of the fight is Basharat Peer ...

Why Spanish Publishing is the Next Digital Battleground | Publishing ... By Guest Contributor that, when viewed collectively, signal the end of the first stage of the digital era in Spanish-languagepublishing. Following an initial ... Publishers are relying more and more on new Web 2.0 technologies to promote their books and authors. But, most important of all, ... Today, with digital platforms permitting direct distribution of ebooks to readers, there's a direct opening to readers that any publisher wanting to succeed in the new digital world must be ready to grab. Amazon knows this ... Publishing Perspectives

New The DNA of Books – Stephen's Lighthouse By admin This is an interesting project and is worth keeping an eye on: The central question is: Can a Pandora-like engine for recommending music choices also work for books? What is the DNA of books? Strata Week: Cracking a book's genetic code ... Stephen's Lighthouse

Antipiracy Service Targets eBooks on File Sharing Sites - GalleyCat By Maryann Yin The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ... Cambridge University Press is looking for a Editorial Assistant. next job Oxford Press University is looking for a Development Editor. next job Smithsonian Books is looking for a Smithsonian Books Editorial Internship. next job Life Extension is looking for a Integrative Medicine: Text Book ... The Curtis Agency and E-Reads will tackle eBook piracy as a team, making it easier for authors to find pirated material and send take-down letters. ... GalleyCat

Diesel Books returns to Malibu! - Native Intelligence (And for anyone worried about Malibu Shaman, a specialty book seller in Malibu since 1983, shoppers looking for books on the metaphysical will instead find a sign directing them to owner Scott Sutphen's store upstairs.) Congratulations, John ... LA Observed

Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (August 2011) | The Big Picture By Barry Ritholtz I always find it interesting to see what books TBP readers are buying. In addition to throwing off a few shekels, the Amazon code embedded in links lets me. The Big Picture

Academic publishing under scrutiny at last? — Slaw By Ruth Bird It is a similar tale in legal publishing. We need to be aware of the added power we put into publisher hands every time we cancel a paper subscription…. Publishers across the board, not just legal publishers, are under George Monbiot's ... Slaw

Books... Is This Clutter? | Care2 Healthy Living By Christy Diane Farr The question is always the same: Does this item serve me more than the space would serve me? Sounds good... but what about books? Care2 Healthy Living

How to Read Ebooks Without E-Reader | Ilona Andrews By Ilona No Kindle required; Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you; Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync; Create new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and ... Ilona Andrews

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TIME's 100 Best Nonfiction Books

All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME
Politics and war, science and sports, memoir and biography — there's a great big world of nonfictionbooks out there just waiting to be read. We picked the 100 ...www.time.com/time/specials/.../0,28757,2088856,00.html

Move By Universities Creates New Problem For Google Books Deal paidContent.org As part of its quest to digitize the world's books, Google has scanned millions of titles. But it can't make them available to the public until a judge gives his blessing to a troubled settlement the company has reached with authors and publishers. ...

Judge Says Books-A-Million Can Take Over 14 Borders Leases Wall Street Journal By JOSEPH CHECKLER NEW YORK—A judge on Monday cleared Books-A-Million Inc. to take over the leases on 14 Borders Group Inc. stores, meaning at least some Borders stores will carry on as the rest of the chain winds down through liquidations. ...

Kashmir Litfest Canceled as Authors Balk Wall Street Journal (blog) “For them it would've been a great opportunity to interact with authors of repute from outside Kashmir, they were hoping their voices would be heard,” she said in a phone interview, noting that many of them write in Kashmiri. ...

Cops: Glen Ellyn man stole library books to sell on Internet Chicago Tribune The Daily Herald reports: A Glen Ellyn man stole thousands of books, DVDs and other items from area libraries and then sold some of them on the Internet, according to Lisle police. Police began investigating the thefts in April and arrested James F. ...

Authors in play to close Edinburgh Book Festival BBC News They were among 18 authors and actors who took part in a reading of Fleck, by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Poet Liz Lochhead and writers Janice Galloway and AL Kennedy were also involved in performing the work, a modern version of Goethe's Faust. ...

Borders, Books And Buggy Whips Patch.com I've bought more books at Borders in the past week than I have in the past year. Only with recent discounts advertised at 40-60 percent off are Borders prices finally competitive. Some bibliophiles renounce my frugality as if the cost consciousness of ...

Books for Breakfast sees popularity soar BCLocalNews Books for Breakfast program has allowed the Sargeants to expand their book library for their child. By Edward Hill - Goldstream News Gazette Volunteers arrive a dawn to set up chairs and mats, slice breakfast fruit and haul in books – it's a demanding ...

So when does academic publishing get disrupted? GigaOm Any discussion of the transformation of the publishing business — whether it's the publishing ofbooks, newspapers or magazines — inevitably focuses on a number of factors. One is the explosion of new sources of content, whether it's Twitter's status ...

New Jersey school bans books for passages of drug usage and homosexuality Washington Post (blog) (Via Flickr user Karla Blanco ) Bibliophiles have worried about the fate of books ever since governments started banning them, and when Ray Bradbury wrote his book-burning novel “Fahrenheit 451,” it confirmed their worst fears for the future. ...

An Apple a day . . .but no books for pupils Herald.ie By Alan O'Keeffe In an experiment that could signal the end of heavy schoolbags, a select group of first students have been handed iPads. The devices will contain all the textbooks they will need for the next five years. The boys and girls who arrived ...

Groups bring free books to West Side schools Daily Mail - Charleston Two West Side schools will receive thousands of free books, thanks to a partnership between one of the state's teachers unions and a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization. The joint venture between the state chapter of the American Federation of ...

The Most Wanted Out-of-Print Books in the US Flavorwire Each year, BookFinder compiles a list of the most sought-after out-of-print books in US, and it's usually topped by Madonna's controversial 1992 coffee-table classic, Sex. This year is no exception. We've rounded up the remaining titles in the top 10 ...

Readers Advisory a Service Libraries Offer To Find Books The Ledger Click on "Books & Authors" and browse authors, titles, and genres. If you want, you can join the "Books & Authors" site and create lists you can come back to any time. You'll soon have a list of promising books you can search back in our PCLC catalog. ...

Books-A-Million, Inc. Announces Management Promotions MarketWatch (press release) Books-A-Million, Inc. is one of the nation's leading book retailers and sells on the Internet atwww.booksamillion.com . The Company presently operates 234 stores in 23 states and the District of Columbia. The Company operates large superstores under ...

Back to work: The books you, er, read The Guardian While no one will get too excited about the Booker until the short list is announced next Tuesday, the long list does tell you which fancied books are out of the running. Philip Hensher's King of the Badgers, Graham Swift's Wish You Were Here and ...

In Other Words: Teen Books That Adults Love Patch.com This week's Greenfield Public Library's book list of recommended reads - teen books enjoyed by adults - comes from library intern Traci. Set during World War II in Germany, and narrated by Death himself, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, ...

Tons of books coming to Glade Southwest Virginia Today By Staff By CAROLYN R. WILSON/Correspondent There will be a “ton” of books to give away in Glade Spring on Saturday. Local organizations and schools are helping Imagination Library of Bristol/Washington County, Va., host an event for families of young ...

Authors Bag Deal After Amazon eBook Success Wall Street Daily Louise Voss and Mark Edwards from London are discussing their third book after securing a six-figure publishing deal. Their success is thanks to the popularity of electronic books. Traditional publishers rejected their first two novels – Killing Cupid ...

Vishv Book draws attention of young readers India PRwire (press release) In this scenario niche publishing is gaining ground and one sector that's seeing tremendous growth is the children books section. Catch them young is the new mantra for publishing success and hundreds of new titles are published in this genre every ...

Zaner-Bloser Publishes Voices Leveled Library to Enrich Literacy Instruction PR Newswire (press release) 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zaner-Bloser has published Voices Leveled Library, an extensive collection of books for Grade K-6 developed to meet students at any reading level. The library's 648 titles are flexible enough to be used in any literacy ...

The 10 Best Books for Freelancers about Social Media ... By Lexirodrigo Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business, by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman. Social media is all about content, and this book shows you ... FreelanceFolder

How to Avoid Nasty Surprises in Your Publishing Workflow ... By Guest Contributor A description of workflow basics you need to bear in mind no matter what type of publishing you're working in, no matter where you are in the world. ... Author Guidelines: Create easy-to-read, brief author guidelines outlining the entire publishing process and send these to the authors with their contracts and a cover pages summarizing the highlights. Stress what he or she will need to do, when, and in what ... In other words, will this help you sell more books? I remember a Director of ... Publishing Perspectives

A Manual to Publishing Your Books | Sisyliacandra By admin These days, lots of authors are truly having a increasing number of books sold thru self-publishing. There are currently diverse books published on the topic “how to publish a book” both in the true book kind or just an eBook. These include ... Sisyliacandra

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Back-to-school books show how much fun learning can be

Back-to-school books show how much fun learning can be Washington Post Deb Lindsey/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST - “Big Book of How” is one of the books kids will actually want to take to school with them. As you head back to school, your backpack will probably be jampacked with textbooks, notebooks, calculators and markers. ...

Hear sound effects and songs while reading classics on eBooks The Hindu E—books are now being given background noises and music in the hope to spark young people's interest in literature. The concept is already in use in the US, where the classics of Charlotte Bronte, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Shakesphere come...

Mother-daughter novelists' new holiday books Vancouver Sun By Tracy Sherlock, Postmedia News August 29, 2011 9:07 AM Authors Mary Higgins Clark (L) and Carol Higgins Clark attend the 16th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Day 2 at USC on May 1, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. ...

Authors share their experiences in book of letters called 'Dear Bully' USA Today But top authors of books for teens want to help spread the word about this threat and what kids and adults can do about it. Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Story is the brainchild of authors Carrie Jones and Megan Kelley Hall. ...

The Best Books for Mastering Your Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR Business Insider Here's a list of books that you should find helpful. I'll also include some links to a few online stores where you can purchase new versions. I won't be listing used books here since they come and go more quickly, but always check for used books first, ...

Zoe Saldana books 'Dominion' S2Smagazine.com With her new release, Colombiana just kicking its way into theaters, Zoe Saldana has already lined up her next job. Not much is known about the plot of the movie. Zoe will play an angel-human hybrid in the supernatural thriller. ...

In western Pa., schools embracing e-books e-readers and laptops for education ... The Republic Parents can access the books on home computers, and there are even interactive games to support the books. But in six to seven years, when the district will again purchase new textbooks, they'll likely be in an all-digital form, Marin said. ...

Publishers urged to cut book prices Irish Times Publishing companies would only agree to a voluntary code of practice on the selling and reprinting of educational books to schools. In what his department described as a “significant departure” on policy by previous ministers, Mr Quinn has stepped up ...

God save us from books with soundtracks Telegraph.co.uk (blog) As today's Telegraph reports, publishers are now producing the first “enhanced e-books”, where soundtracks are provided along with the text. The first one, The Adventures of the Speckled Band, a Sherlock Holmes story, came out last week, complete with ...

Local libraries stay vital by lending e-books Press-Enterprise Readers download the books to their device, and then have either seven or 14 days before the book expires from the device and someone else can check it out. The e-book is available only to one customer at a time because of publishing agreements. ...

Fall book season includes Ondaatje, Atwood Winnipeg Free Press The season is a critical one for publishing houses as they release bankable books and arrange author tours in time to build buzz before the Christmas shopping season. "The big awards come in the fall as well so that's another consideration why the fall ...

'The Stranger You Seek' Isn't for the Squeamish ABC News By MICHELLE WIENER For AP "The Stranger You Seek" (Bantam Books), by Amanda Kyle Williams: At the start of Amanda Kyle Williams' "The Stranger You Seek," readers are in the head of a serial killer ready to strike. It's a short passage made all the more ...

Analog Graphic Design to Die For: 5 Fantastic Die-Cut Books The Atlantic For all their wonder and promise, one crucial component of the joy of reading still eludes the publishing platforms of the future: holding a beautifully bound, meticulously designed, thoughtfully crafted tome in your two hands. Hardly does that tactile ...

Irish school replaces text books with iPads Irish Central Students beginning secondary school in St Kevin's, Crumlin, in north Dublin, are swapping their heavy text books and school bags for iPads this fall. Under the new system the families will pay $217 (€150), per year, for the iPad which will be preloaded ...

Romance rules Philippine literary charts Hindustan Times The ultra-cheap local versions of Mills and Boon novels are the country's most popular books, making their authors champions of conservative Christian values and unlikely heroes in the battle to improve literacy among the poor. ...

Wolverine Farm Publishing trying to inspire, inform people through literature The Coloradoan To that end we publish two to four books per year, own the Matter Bookstore inside the Bean Cycle Coffeehouse in downtown Fort Collins, promote and host community events, and run literacy programs and workshops. Everything we do revolves around ...

Duke to expand e-books News & Observer Those books, published between 1923 and 1963, will be offered to the public because the owners of the copyrights can't be contacted - either the publishers went out of business or the authors are deceased. The e-books are stored by HathiTrust, ...

Simon Garfield's 'Just My Type' says it with fonts USA Today It's easy to see the same happening with this newest offering from Simon Garfield, a British author of 12 books of non-fiction. Who knew the world was full of people who not only know about these typefaces but actually care about them? ...

On the Books Aug. 29: Gwyneth trumps Irene, the economics of being attractive ... Entertainment Weekly (blog) ++ Three news books examine the economic effects of being pretty. (Spoiler alert: Findings show that being attractive will almost always increase your net worth). Familiarize yourself with buzzword “pulchronomics.”

Tribe, casino makes new math books possible for local kids Native Times Osage Nation and its economic enterprise, Osage Casino, delivered a $5000 sponsorship to McCord Elementary School for use for new math books for math and reading programs. “This is a big way to improve student achievement since our current math books ...

Authors on TV? But why? Globe and Mail The end of programs that routinely featured books and their authors coincided exactly with the threat that the City of Toronto may close local libraries. And people in Toronto thought the Ford regime was crass? Another program you can see tonight is ...

Powell attacks Cheney book's "cheap shots" WVLT CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford said that in Washington the book is one of one of the most eagerly anticipated books of the century. "Cheney never has been known to pull punches; he certainly hasn't in this book," Crawford said on "The ...

Talking Book and Braille Library in Seattle is a volunteer wonder The Seattle Times Last week, I saw two books by local authors on deck to be recorded: "West of Here," the sprawling Olympic Peninsula-set novel by Bainbridge Island writer Jonathan Evison, and "Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye" by renowned Seattle wildlife artist and ...

Read me: Four social-media sites for bookworms Macworld On one hand, this gives Shelfari an easy leg up in the cataloging race, because it can automatically acquire any books (or ebooks) you've purchased with your Amazon account (including on your Kindle). Additionally, the service is clean and ...

Edith Grossman on the Challenges of ... - Publishing Perspectives By Hernán Iglesias Illa In her book, Grossman mentions the well-known fact that only three percent of the books published in the United States, Great Britain and Australia are translations, while in Europe and Latin America this percentage number fluctuates between ... Publishing Perspectives

Brian Whitakers' books now on Kindle - Blog - The Arabist By Issandr El Amrani I'm a big of fan of Brian Whitaker's work at the Guardian (where he was Middle East editor for many years and now edits the Comment is Free part of the website), of his longstanding website al-Bab and have liked his books. They are now ... Feed for Arabist.net

10 Books To ReCharge the Creative Mind | Chase Jarvis Blog By Chase 10 books, from inspiration to how-to that will refresh, re-charge, or ignite any creative mind. Something for everyone... ... Inspiration can come from anywhere, and books have always been a great source for me. But so many of the books that are recommended in creative circles are ... The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from ... Chase Jarvis Blog

Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers — The ... By Joel Friedlander Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers shows numerous examples of this binding style and explains why more self-publishers should use it. ... self-publishing and the indiepublishing 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 properly constructed and beautiful to read. Like this post? Subscribe via RSS or E- Mail to... The Book Designer

Can Digital Comic Books Spark a Love of Reading? | MindShift By Audrey Watters But while schools move to embrace graphic novels and comic books in the classroom, thepublishing industry's move to digital formats raises another set of challenges and possibilities for the genre. How will the move to electronic versions of ... MindShift

Best Video Game Books: Download Online for iPhone, iPad, iPod ... By Scott Steinberg Independent book publisher P3: Power Play Publishing specializes in print and digital books for the consumer electronics, small business and video game industries. Founded in 2007 by technology expert and motivational business keynote ... Game Industry News, Interviews...

Artist and their books | American Libraries Magazine By Pamela Goodes Julie Chen's The Veil (top) and Christopher Wilde's No Quarter Given are among the 30 books to be on display when "Artists' Books: Books by Arts" opens October 12 at the Boston (Mass.) Athenaeum Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery. ... American Libraries Magazine -...

25 Famous Authors With Learning Disabilities | Bachelor's Degree ... By Site Administrator 25 Famous Authors With Learning Disabilities ... But dyslexia does not seem to have hindered his success, as Dilbert is well loved, in addition to his books, restaurant ownership, and appearances on TV shows. Adams also suffers from focal ... Bachelor's Degree Online

FREE Kindle eBooks | Faithful Provisions By Kelly Here is a list of Kindle eBooks that are FREE to download all day today, Monday, August 29, 2011: The Holy Bible: HCSB Digital Text Edition by B&H Publishing Group (reg. $12.99); Soon (Underground Zealot Series #1) by Jerry B. Jenkins ... Faithful Provisions

Flipboard to Carry Movies, TV Shows and Ebooks - SocialTimes.com By Kenna McHugh Flipboard to Carry Movies, TV Shows and Ebooks ... McCue also mentioned a strong interest in approaching publishers to sell ebooks through Flipboard as well. ... The Semantic Web News,Publishing & Content Management Revolution ... SocialTimes.com

'Wimpy Kid,' 'Heroes of Olympus' among fall books - Yahoo! News The books arriving this fall face a radically different market from just a year ago. ... Paolo Coelho, one of the world's best-selling authors, has a new novel of physical and spiritual .... Wait until thepublishing world gets a hold of THE MACHINE! ... news.yahoo.com/wimpy-kid-heroes-olympus-among-fall-boo...

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