Fox News
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books. The electronic textbooks, which include "Biology" and ...
Fox News
First Comprehensive e-Book Publishing and Conversion Tool Hits the Web
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Folium Book Studio gives both self-publishing authors and independent publishers the ability to instantly upload manuscripts into an easy-to-use, online service that translates Microsoft® Word® and other documents into complete digital works ready for ...
Universities test buying e-books in bulk
Wall Street Journal
Students at the Madison campus spend an average of about $1140 on books and supplies per year. The State Journal (http://bit.ly/y77Kg1) says the pilot project is led by Internet2, a higher education research network. The others participating schools ...
Romance Titles Get a New Imprint, E-Books Only
New York Times (blog)
In a move to cater to that quickly growing group of voracious readers, Grand Central Publishing said on Thursday it would create an imprint for romance titles that would publish only e-books, not printbooks. Called Forever Yours, the imprint will ...
Enhanced eBooks: Next Frontier or Passing Fad?
MarketWatch
A new crop of digital books comes loaded with videos, songs, animated shorts and pop-up graphics. Is this the future of publishing or just a passing fad? Alexandra Alter has details on Lunch Break. What you should do when you spot scary names in a ...
Publishing houses like Penguin, HarperCollins' plan to release a slew of e-books
Economic Times
BANGALORE/MUMBAI: A small team at Penguin India's New Delhi office is agog with excitement as the publishing powerhouse - with 250 titles every year - waits for its E-moment - launch of the first set of 150 ebooks slated for this month. ...
BOOKS: 'Lunatics' fun, lacks Barry's typical wit
Kennebec Journal
By DINESH RAMDE AP By Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel In his popular books and newspaper columns, Dave Barry displays such a zany wit that on the rare occasions he's being serious he actually has to specify, “I am not making this up. ...
Purchase Featured Books
NPR
Struggling with job losses, the imminent foreclosure of their home and a floundering marriage, Art and Marion Fowler liquidate their savings and reserve the bridal suite at a Niagara Falls casino, where they make high-risk bets in the hopes of fixing ...
Will Interactive iBooks Be The Next Big Booty For Pirates?
TechCrunch
... it's not just the big-name publishers and the best-selling authors who have to deal with this. I spoke briefly with Rick Tannenbaum, who operates a small publishing firm called Hen House Press in upstate New York. They publish around a dozen books ...
TechCrunch
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: True stories and recipes from islands and kitchens
Kennebec Journal
By Crash Barry Many books have been written on the subjects of lobster fishing and life on a Maine island, usually painting a romantic, picturesque image of rugged individualism and serene independence. Well, this isn't one of them. ...
Response to e-books has been slow but steady at Iredell library
Statesville Record & Landmark
“There are some publishers who will not sell e-books to libraries,” she said, referring specifically topublishing house Simon & Shuster, which will not sell Stephen King's new releases to libraries in e-book format. Other publishers make libraries ...
BOOKS: 'Captain Underpants' author goes digital
Kennebec Journal
The releases will include deleted scenes and material about the making of the books, spinoffs of the “Captain Underpants” stories. The proliferation of iPads, Nooks, Kindle Fires and other color devices have made publishers and authors increasingly ...
Tucson Bans Mexican American Studies and Over 80 Books
San Fernando Valley Sun
Roberto Rodriguez, University of Arizona professor and one of the nation's top Chicano and Latinoauthors on Mexican American Studies, had two books on the list. His reaction was outrage. "The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. ...
Apple Isn't The Only Disruptor: How Amazon Is Killing Publishers
TechCrunch
We can't pay $1 million for books anymore. Amazon could probably afford to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to put the other publishers out of business. I think that's what they're trying to do–throw money around in an industry that ...
Best Keep Fit Books, according to the Book People
WebWire (press release)
Online bookseller the Book People is encouraging the UK public to change their dieting and exercising ways following the festive period by turning to keep fit books for help. The Book People have a wide selection of books to choose from, with everyth ...
E-publishing of scholarly texts has proven to be incredibly robust. Source: AP
The Australian
ANU ePress, Sydney University Press and Monash University Publishing (all active since 2003), to give just a few examples of the growing list of 'e-presses', publish close to 100 scholarly books a year and have an active backlist of over 700 titles. ...
New music, books, TV shows debut with new year
Destin Log and Walton Log
3 by Bantam Books in trade paperback format. It's 486 pages and retails for $15. The story explores female friendship in the unlikely setting of a court-ordered anger management class. All four of the women — Kit, Grace, Jane and Leah — are first ...
iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple ...
By Eric Slivka
Engadget highlights the economics of publishing iBooks Textbooks to the iBookstore, noting that paid downloads follow Apple's traditional App... ... An iBooks Author FAQ notes that authors may distribute their books free of charge through their own websites, but that book sales must go through the iBookstore. iBooks Textbooks also may not be offered under any subscription-based access programs. Well, it turns out that Cupertino is giving authors the ability to set their own prices as ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Folium Book Studio gives both self-publishing authors and independent publishers the ability to instantly upload manuscripts into an easy-to-use, online service that translates Microsoft® Word® and other documents into complete digital works ready for ...
Universities test buying e-books in bulk
Wall Street Journal
Students at the Madison campus spend an average of about $1140 on books and supplies per year. The State Journal (http://bit.ly/y77Kg1) says the pilot project is led by Internet2, a higher education research network. The others participating schools ...
Romance Titles Get a New Imprint, E-Books Only
New York Times (blog)
In a move to cater to that quickly growing group of voracious readers, Grand Central Publishing said on Thursday it would create an imprint for romance titles that would publish only e-books, not printbooks. Called Forever Yours, the imprint will ...
Enhanced eBooks: Next Frontier or Passing Fad?
MarketWatch
A new crop of digital books comes loaded with videos, songs, animated shorts and pop-up graphics. Is this the future of publishing or just a passing fad? Alexandra Alter has details on Lunch Break. What you should do when you spot scary names in a ...
Publishing houses like Penguin, HarperCollins' plan to release a slew of e-books
Economic Times
BANGALORE/MUMBAI: A small team at Penguin India's New Delhi office is agog with excitement as the publishing powerhouse - with 250 titles every year - waits for its E-moment - launch of the first set of 150 ebooks slated for this month. ...
BOOKS: 'Lunatics' fun, lacks Barry's typical wit
Kennebec Journal
By DINESH RAMDE AP By Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel In his popular books and newspaper columns, Dave Barry displays such a zany wit that on the rare occasions he's being serious he actually has to specify, “I am not making this up. ...
Purchase Featured Books
NPR
Struggling with job losses, the imminent foreclosure of their home and a floundering marriage, Art and Marion Fowler liquidate their savings and reserve the bridal suite at a Niagara Falls casino, where they make high-risk bets in the hopes of fixing ...
Will Interactive iBooks Be The Next Big Booty For Pirates?
TechCrunch
... it's not just the big-name publishers and the best-selling authors who have to deal with this. I spoke briefly with Rick Tannenbaum, who operates a small publishing firm called Hen House Press in upstate New York. They publish around a dozen books ...
TechCrunch
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: True stories and recipes from islands and kitchens
Kennebec Journal
By Crash Barry Many books have been written on the subjects of lobster fishing and life on a Maine island, usually painting a romantic, picturesque image of rugged individualism and serene independence. Well, this isn't one of them. ...
Response to e-books has been slow but steady at Iredell library
Statesville Record & Landmark
“There are some publishers who will not sell e-books to libraries,” she said, referring specifically topublishing house Simon & Shuster, which will not sell Stephen King's new releases to libraries in e-book format. Other publishers make libraries ...
BOOKS: 'Captain Underpants' author goes digital
Kennebec Journal
The releases will include deleted scenes and material about the making of the books, spinoffs of the “Captain Underpants” stories. The proliferation of iPads, Nooks, Kindle Fires and other color devices have made publishers and authors increasingly ...
Tucson Bans Mexican American Studies and Over 80 Books
San Fernando Valley Sun
Roberto Rodriguez, University of Arizona professor and one of the nation's top Chicano and Latinoauthors on Mexican American Studies, had two books on the list. His reaction was outrage. "The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. ...
Apple Isn't The Only Disruptor: How Amazon Is Killing Publishers
TechCrunch
We can't pay $1 million for books anymore. Amazon could probably afford to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to put the other publishers out of business. I think that's what they're trying to do–throw money around in an industry that ...
Best Keep Fit Books, according to the Book People
WebWire (press release)
Online bookseller the Book People is encouraging the UK public to change their dieting and exercising ways following the festive period by turning to keep fit books for help. The Book People have a wide selection of books to choose from, with everyth ...
E-publishing of scholarly texts has proven to be incredibly robust. Source: AP
The Australian
ANU ePress, Sydney University Press and Monash University Publishing (all active since 2003), to give just a few examples of the growing list of 'e-presses', publish close to 100 scholarly books a year and have an active backlist of over 700 titles. ...
New music, books, TV shows debut with new year
Destin Log and Walton Log
3 by Bantam Books in trade paperback format. It's 486 pages and retails for $15. The story explores female friendship in the unlikely setting of a court-ordered anger management class. All four of the women — Kit, Grace, Jane and Leah — are first ...
iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple ...
By Eric Slivka
Engadget highlights the economics of publishing iBooks Textbooks to the iBookstore, noting that paid downloads follow Apple's traditional App... ... An iBooks Author FAQ notes that authors may distribute their books free of charge through their own websites, but that book sales must go through the iBookstore. iBooks Textbooks also may not be offered under any subscription-based access programs. Well, it turns out that Cupertino is giving authors the ability to set their own prices as ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
iBooks 2 lets authors set textbook prices in exchange for Apple ...
By Michael Gorman
In exchange, Apple takes a 30 percent cut, and requires authors take an oath of fealty to Tim Cook -- ok, not really, but any e-textbook author that wants access to the iPad-toting masses must make his or her work an exclusive to iBooks 2. So there you have it folks, if you want to take a gander at these awesome new ... iBooks 2 lets authors set textbook prices in exchange for Apple exclusivity · 0 · Apple announces free iBooks Author OS X app for publishing books to the App Store ...
Engadget
Best New Children's Books In January 2012
By The Huffington Post News Editors
So we're starting a new monthly feature to highlight a few books for different ages -- some exceptional titles that could be the perfect thing to perk your kid's interest, get your reader hooked on a new author, or rediscover an old favorite. Here are our picks for January: .... Keep in mind that the articles here are penned by young authors, so please keep criticism respectful, and help us to keep this a safe and supportive place for writers of all ages to contribute. Post Comment Preview ...
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Best Mystery Books of 2011 - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau) Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books) All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press) Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA ...
GalleyCat
Everything you need to know about publishing and distribution for ...
By Jordan Kahn
... there are inevitably more than a few questions regarding publishing and distribution for authors and publishers. Fortunately, Apple clarified the intricacies of the new services in a support document. A couple things we learned: Books created ...
9to5Mac
Lee Foster's Ebook Publishing Revolution, Part 2 — The Book ...
By Joel Friedlander
If you are a writer or photographer thinking of publishing ebooks, one of the most important concepts to internalize is their layout simplicity, compared to print books. Print books, especially if heavy with graphics, require a .... the indie publishing 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.
The Book Designer
Civil rights movement authors speak at Birmingham Public Library's ...
By Hannah Wolfson -- The Birmingham News
Children need to read good books about the movement and other parts of black history so they learn the truth about the past and find role models to identify with, said the authors, who spoke at the Birmingham Public Library's annual Martin ...
Breaking News from The Birmingham News
Increase in library ebooks stirs opposition in community | TeleRead ...
By Paul Biba
Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... Le French Book on "Apple rumored to announce 'GarageBand for e-books', e-textbooks for iPad at event tomorrow - Posted on January 18, 2012 ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Apple's publishing partners for digital textbooks: McGraw Hill ...
By David Pierce
Apple's also working with the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and DK Publishing to launch newbooks like Life on Earth, and to bring some of the publishers' current apps to the iBook store.Authors will have "total freedom in terms of laying ...
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Why textbooks of the future are not books — Apple News, Tips and ...
By Erica Ogg
Apple has updated the iBooks app, now called iBooks 2, and with that comes a whole new category on the iBookstore for textbooks with material from the big publishers like McGraw-Hill and Pearson, as well as other authors who want to sell their textbooks and learning ... And the really killer part of this is the easy publishing tool, iBooks Author, which is free and replicates an iWork experience, like building a presentation in Keynote, into a click-and-drag method of building a textbook .
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