Times of India
JAIPUR: Two prominent authors on Friday read out portions from Salman Rushdie's banned book "Satanic Verses" at the Jaipur Literature Festival as a mark of protest after the India-born author had to pull out of the event over security concerns. ...
Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs
The Verge
On the whole, paper books are not as accessible as ebooks when it comes to navigation. I generally prefer the spatial navigation a paper book affords, but I can't say it's inherently superior — just different. As for referencing particular passages ...
Children's books for Chinese New Year
Washington Post
We found three wonderful books that celebrate kids and Chinese culture. Reading them might be a great way to welcome in the Year of the Dragon. →“A New Year's Reunion” by Yu Li-Qiong; illustrated by Zhu Cheng Liang. $15.99. Age 5 and older. ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: X-Men Take Over Top Spot
New York Times (blog)
1 on the hardcover graphic books best-seller list this week. When an international incident sends hatred of mutants into a new frenzy, Cyclops and Wolverine are divided in their response and cause a rift in the team. This collected edition contains the ...
New York Times (blog)
Ebooks roundup: Happiness, hard times and hot love
The Guardian
One of the opportunities digital publishing offers is the chance to bring back neglected works that don't have a large enough readership to justify traditional print publication. An Impossible Marriage by Pamela Hansford Johnson (Bello, £7.99) is one ...
The Guardian
'Authors Explosion!' to be held at Tatnuck in Westborough
Community Advocate
“We love chatting with others about our books and our experiences,” she said. “Some of us have self-published, and others have gone the traditional route. We have writers who focus on children's literature, romance, thriller, young adult, ...
Using libraries in the age of ebooks
Computerworld (blog)
I remembered some advice from a friend to check out my local public library, so I went to the Brooklyn Public Library site, and found that, yes, indeed, I could borrow audio books and ebookswith the right software. It made me feel -- well, good. ...
Books on Wheels is born
Malakoff News
I sold a few extra books on Amazon.com, and it worked out so well, I got some more and sold them. It was great fun looking for a book that might have some value. But sometimes I found whole libraries that were for sale at bargain prices, so I would buy ...
Audubon's 'Birds of America' books fetch $7.9 million
msnbc.com
The 3 1/2-foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the species known to Audubon in early 19th-century North America. Audubon insisted on the book's large format — printed on the largest handmade sheets available at the time — because of his ...
msnbc.com
Do Tablet Apps and Ebooks Spell the End of Pop-Up Books?
Daily Beast
“There aren't that many people that make pop-up books,” says Maria Tatar, a Harvard professor specializing in childhood literature. “My guess is that there are probably less than 100 [authors] that have done it successfully. ...
Daily Beast
Georges Remi: Learning His Lines
New York Times
Because the work appears in newspapers and comic books, it must strike a commercial chord quickly: there isn't much time for it to “find an audience.” The field doesn't boast many lonely geniuses whose work is discovered posthumously. ...
New York Times
Books received this week
The Guardian (blog)
I sometimes receive books in the mail, as review copies from publishers, as gifts from far-away friends and rarely, as my personal purchases (although I try to reserve my book purchases for once-a-year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, so my purchases are ...
Authors work hard for write stuff
So Md News
“God in Wingtip Shoes” will appear April 1, published by Urban Christian, an imprint of Long Island, NY-based Urban Books. Its acquisitions editor, Joylynn Jossel, said she is certain the book will sell, but also sees it as a cut above the publishing ...
Novak Djokovoic Books Fourth Third Round Spot
FemaleFirst.co.uk
Novak Djokovic continued his serene progress into the third round as he saw off Santiago Giraldo in straight sets. Despite the rather easy looking scoreline it was Giraldo who made his move first in the opening set as he broke Djokovic in the fifth ...
History books help us understand where we've been
Montreal Gazette
It is among a new crop of history books – from an outstanding biography of Canada's longest-reigning prime minister to an account of Columbus's voyages – that offer insights into current issues including globalization and the future of Canadian ...
'From the library of ...': the artistry of bookplates
The Seattle Times
The exhibit "Ex Libris: Contemporary & Antique Bookplates" at Davidson Galleries in Seattle celebrates the art of bookplates, which identify books' owners. By Gayle Clemans Above: Enrico Vannuccini's "Cross Section of Human Head," Ex Libris for Berbard ...
Lee Duran: Self-publishing has advanced enough to give it a try
Joplin Globe
The first requirement for any kind of publishing is to write the book -- a whole, entire book with a beginning, a middle and an end. That I have done many times -- 35 or so books and novellas sold to Harlequin and St. Martin's. ...
Regional Books: An Earthquake in China, Stories of Oklahoma, a Plant Guide to ...
Tucson Citizen
Award-winning writer David Dary, who retired as head professor at the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, has written extensively about the American West and is the author of eighteen previous books including “Cowboy Culture,” ...
Book Report: Try authors with an edgy twist
Farmington Independent
I haven't heard from Ephron lately, so thank heaven for Merrill Markoe, who is out with a new book “Cool, Calm & Contentious” (Villard Books, $24). “It took a couple of minutes inside Brad's apartment for me to notice an uptick in uncomfortable ...
Scott Mueller From Que Publishing and Ken Russell From The Nexus Group to Be ...
Broadcast Newsroom
NASHVILLE, TN -- (Marketwire) -- 01/20/12 -- Guests from Que Publishing and The Nexus Group will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a Pearson ...
Discipling the Dragon: Christian Publishing Finds Success in China
ChristianityToday.com
Paul Peng works for Enoch Publishing, the oldest and one of the largest publishers of books with Christian values. Some 30 percent of Enoch's consumers aren't Christians. "We have several channels to sell books: bookstores opened by Christians, ...
ebrary Titles Now Available Through Baker & Taylor's Title Source 3
MarketWatch (press release)
Tens of thousands of librarians who order books through Title Source 3 now have the option of choosing digital versions on the ebrary platform, which provides both online and offline access, with or without a new dedicated mobile app for the iPad(R), ...
School trades text books for iPads
WJXT Jacksonville
University Christian School on the Southside has decided that all students in grades 8 through 12 will be using iPads, rather than traditional text books. "That's a lot better for us because we don't have to carry all the weight and you can have it all ...
Penn GSE Researcher Scores a Publishing Hat Trick
Penn: Office of University Communications
Gasman, an education historian and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has just finished three books – all of which she was writing and researching at the same time. While she admits that it was sometimes difficult ...
Will iBooks2 Inspire Authors to Innovate? | Publishing Perspectives
By Edward Nawotka
The new iBooks Author app allows authors to easily produce multimedia e-books. What will be the outcome, beyond ... Its great that publishers and authors will now be more aware of the digitalpublishing solutions available to them. We at Snapplify, also realised this ... the world's computer users? Unless they open their platform to everyone as Amazon have done with Kindle, they will never sell many ebooks (less than 4% market share currently), let alone compete with Amazon. Ben ...
Publishing Perspectives
University Publishing Online adds six more academic presses ...
By Paul Biba
From the press release: Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the addition of six more academic presses to its University Publishing Online (UPO)
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Flavorwire » The 10 Most Expensive Books in the World
By Emily Temple
In fact, according to The Economist, a true list of the ten most valuable single books ever sold would have to include five copies of The Birds of America. Though Christie's is playing their cards close to the vest and estimating a $7 to $10 million ...
Flavorwire
Doctor Who News: BBC Books: Dark Horizons
By Chuck Foster
A successful author with some thirteen books under her belt, Jenny Colgan is also a lifetime Doctor Who fan, and won a national fan competition aged 11 to meet Peter Davison as the Doctor (who mistook her for a boy!). Speaking about her ...
Doctor Who News
NJ Teen Donates 20000 Books To Be Distributed To NYC ...
By mzielinska
Lucas Gabriel, of Englishtown, filled up a U-Haul truck with 342 boxes containing 20000 books and delivered them to The Center for Fiction in Manhattan this morning.
CBS New York
This Week's Mercury Books Section! | Blogtown, PDX
By Alison Hallett
I've got an interview with Naked Girls Reading Portland co-producer Sophie Maltease about why she's putting on Saturday's event, and what to expect. •Ryan Boudinot's...
Portland Mercury
This Week In Photography Books – Robert Adams
By Jonathan Blaustein
So why have I been unable to cut the seal on these three books, sitting on my stack for two months now? That's the question I'm asking myself, now, watching the ravens float through the sky in front of the purple, snow-covered mountains.
A Photo Editor
iBooks Author Books Can Only Be Sold Through iBookstore ...
By Shaylin Clark
Apple's announcement yesterday of iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U signaled the company's desire to revolutionize both the textbook industry in.
WebProNews
Mythology-themed books — The Horn Book
By Katie Bircher
The books recommended below were published within the last several years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. PICTURE BOOKS Suggested grade level listed with each entry. Young Zeus by G. Brian ...
The Horn Book
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