Bloomberg
Let's hope it doesn't: Putting an end to the deal Apple and the publishers have reached on selling e-books would be grim news for authors and readers alike. The Justice Department has been investigating whether the publishers colluded in adopting, ...
Bloomberg
Erotic e-book '50 Shades of Grey' seduces Hollywood suitors
SunHerald.com
... little-known British author EL James, the woman behind an overnight literary phenomenon titled "50 Shades of Grey." The first in the trilogy of erotic e-books about a virginal recent college graduate and her lurid relationship with a billionaire in ...
DigitalMarketer.com Article Says Self-publish on Amazon and Reap the Benefits
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Even more importantly, self-publishing an e-book for sale on Amazon lets authors tap into the main source of the shifting culture of reading literature. The rise of digital content like e-books is negatively affecting the traditional publishing ...
'Hunger Games' pits book gore vs. movie gore
MiamiHerald.com
Individually and as a three-book series, "The Hunger Games" is idea-driven. And like the best speculative fiction, it poses complex questions about how one might live in frightening circumstances. Necessarily, the book contains numerous episodes of ...
(CBS/AP) The seventh "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" novel is due out in November.
CBS News
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" (Credit: Amulet Books) (CBS/AP) The seventh "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" novel is due out in November. Amulet Books announced Wednesday that a new book, currently untitled, was coming from "Wimpy Kid" author Jeff Kinney.
CBS News
Wimpy Kid's Love is in the Air Will Be a Global Affair
Huffington Post
While at the Bologna Children's Book Fair Kenney announced that following the Nov. 13 US release by his American publisher, Amulet, publishers in The United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, and Norway will release the book in their ...
'Fifty Shades' heats up the book list's Top 10
USA TODAY
Book 1 is No. 4; Fifty Shades Deeper is No. 7; and Fifty Shades Freed is No. 9. According to her new publisher, Vintage, the British author, a married mother of two and TV executive who uses the pseudonym EL James, will be making US bookstore ...
USA TODAY
Book Talk: Kari Vaara drifts into Finnish darkness
Reuters
I did spend a few years working on the book, on and off, because I was in university and I was working on my master's thesis. So it took me a while. The book I'm finishing now, I'll sit and write 3000 words a day. I once finished a long book in six or ...
Book review: 'The Escape Artists' by Noam Scheiber and 'Confidence Men' by Ron ...
Los Angeles Times
In 'The Escape Artists' by Noam Scheiber and 'Confidence Men' by Ron Suskind, President Obama's economic recovery plan and his advisors are in the spotlight, but the books' analyses are off the mark in places. By David Lauter, Los Angeles Times On Oct.
Motherlode Book Club Video: Anne and Sam Lamott on His Unexpected Fatherhood
New York Times (blog)
As you'd expect, interviewing them both was just like an extension of the book. And it gave me a head start on one of the big questions surrounding “Some Assembly Required” that I've been weighing: now that I know how it all turns out — and that it's ...
'Hunger Games' Exclusive: 'Unofficial Cookbook' Author on Whipping Up Dishes ...
Hollywood.com
By Matt Patches , Hollywood.com Staff | Thursday, March 22, 2012 In the forward toauthor Emily Ansara Baines' new Hunger Games-inspired cookbook (The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook, available now), Baines stresses the importance of food in the hit ...
Hollywood.com
New eBook Challenges the Prevailing 'Best Practices' in Social Media Marketing
Seattle Post Intelligencer
In the process, the book exposes many so-called “best practices” in social media that actually lead to Pyrrhic marketing victories rather than a real and sustainable return on investment. Community as a Resource, the new eBook by John Schroeter ...
Books: New and noteworthy
9NEWS.com
Imagine: How Creativity Works - By Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, non-fiction, on sale March 19) - What it's about: The young author (he's all of 30) of the best seller How We Decide investigates the process of creativity, ...
9NEWS.com
Fellow swing coach blasts Tiger book as 'ethical violation'
USA TODAY
By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY Hank Haney has broken the bro-code. And that is not sitting well with his colleagues. Haney, the former swing coach for Tiger Woods, has written "The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods." The tome details not only Woods ...
USA TODAY
50 Shades of Grey author courted by Hollywood
Vancouver Sun
Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Hollywood studios are rolling out the red carpet for little-known British author EL James, the woman behind an overnight literary phenomenon titled “50 Shades of Grey.” The first in the trilogy of erotic e-books about a ...
Harlan Coben Stay Close author
WEEI.com
Dale and Gerry welcome Harlan Coben on the show, his new book Stay Close is out today and he also gives his take on Tebow to the Jets. We're talking to former rams and cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner . -- the part of this that almost bothers me as ...
Author probes the mysteries of creativity
Wisconsin State Journal
Jonah Lehrer, a regular contributor to Wired and the New Yorker and the author of "How We Decide," said he wasn't immune to writer's block while writing his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works." It's humbling and frustrating enough for a writer to ...
The Nonfiction Writers Conference-An Online Event-Returns May 16 to 18, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Keynote speakers include Dan Poynter, author of "The Self-Publishing Manual," Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords.com-an ebook publishing platform, John Kremer, author of "1001 Ways to Market Your Books," Michael Larsen, literary agent, ...
Teens' taste turns to 'Hunger:' First book in popular young-adult trilogy now ...
Scranton Times-Tribune
BY CAITLIN HEANEY (STAFF WRITER) JAKE DANNA STEVENS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER "The Hunger Games" book series has proven popular among teens like, clockwise from top, Joshua Malone of Scranton, Rachel Ezrin of Clarks Summit, Sophia Assaf of Scranton and Alex ...
Scranton Times-Tribune
EmpowHER Adds "HER Books Resource Center" to Promote Selected Women's Health ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new "HER Books Resource Center" features hand-picked health and wellness books for women, helping the female health consumer access valuable information on a variety of health topics. EmpowHER Founder and CEO, Michelle King Robson, ...
Self-Publishing: Why You Could Be the Next Stephen King
Mashable
That makes me, I guess, a published author. There are lots of people like me bridging the gap between amateur writer and published author. This is the future of publishing: your story, an easy-to-use platform, and direct access to an audience that may ...
Wimpy Kid finds 'love is in the air' in book seven
The Guardian
The illustrated Wimpy Kid books, peppered with handwritten notes and cartoon illustrations, trace the daily trials and tribulations of computer game nerd Greg. The first novel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, was voted best children's book of the decade by Blue ...
The Guardian
The Books That Read You
Huffington Post (blog)
Not enough focus has been put on what an e-book could become, and how it could outstretch the spatial and temporal restrictions imposed by print. This is starting to change. In January, a new publisher appeared on the Kindle.
App Smart Extra: Book Apps for Young Adults - NYTimes.com
By By BOB TEDESCHI
The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore is the most well-known exception to that, but I recently found another excellent book app, The Artifacts ($2 on Apple), that's aimed squarely at a younger person's imagination, and it's well worth ...
Gadgetwise
The books that read you | TeleRead: News and views on e-books ...
By Paul Biba
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... Coliloquy currently uses the data in one of two ways; they either commission authors to write serial narratives, and the writer agrees to follow the narratives that the majority of readers have chosen to follow, or the author writes multiple versions of a narrative, ... Coliloquy's latest book, Fluid takes the idea even further, with what it claims as 500 different story paths made possible by the readers' choices.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Intermission: Art Carved Out of Books - Design - GOOD
By Kristy Pyke
For more than 30 years, artist Guy Laramee has been carving landscapes out of books. Laramee sees his work as a way of illustrating the tension between technology and print. ... NewBook Figures Out the Carbon Footprint of Everything ...
GOOD
Naming Your India Book: A Pocket Guide - NYTimes.com
By By HEATHER TIMMONS
Categorizing the flood of new non-fiction books about India by title. ... Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA visitor browses through books on display at the World BookFair in New Delhi, March 4, 2012. “On 05 May Faber is publishing the new book from Oliver Balch, India Rising: Tales from ... Beguiling or provocative phrase, followed by colon and description of what it will tell you about India (only if you are a literary writer, please). “The Beautiful and the Damned: A ...
India Ink
The IPKat: Property Rights in Personal Data: a book review
By noreply@blogger.com (Catherine Lee)
According to the publisher: 'This important new book defends the ground-breaking proposal to 'propertise' personal data.'Propertisation' arguably improves the position of a data subject to exercise control over his/her personal data by ... It can also be used, the author shows, to enforce existing data protection rights as expressed in the EC Data Protection Directive (1995), Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1945) and ...
The IPKat
Connecticut Demands Sales Tax From Scholastic Book Club & Its ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
Those no good, book-spreading fat cats over at Scholastic Book Club are finally getting their just desserts from the state of Connecticut, along with their nefarious teacher accomplices, who encourage kids to buy and read books. The state's ...
The Consumerist
Behind the Book Tour with Joy the Baker » Bay Area Bites | KQED ...
By Megan Gordon
I thought publishers provided the means and support to help authors promote their books and while on tour they had the opportunity to explore new cities, dine at trendy local restaurants and meet and greet their fans, relaxing in the knowledge that their books have been published. However, after some investigation I discovered this romanticized view doesn't necessarily reflect what it is truly like to go on a book tour, especially for a first-time author. I had the chance to speak with Joy ...
Bay Area Bites
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: Books to Bar
By Jeremiah Moss
Books to Bar. After planning to do so for years, Strip House has finally expanded into the former space of once-beloved 12th Street Books. today. In 2008, decade-old 12th Street Books shuttered when their lease ended and the landlord hiked the rent. Upscale chain restaurant Strip House (which replaced 75-year-old ... During those four years, 12th Street Books relocated to Brooklyn and became The Atlantic Book Shop. Sadly, it did not last. In May 2011, that bookstore also shuttered.
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
Prison Planet.com » Monsanto 'Biotechnology Book for Kids' Caught ...
By admin
In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the “Biotechnology Basics Activity Book” for kids. With the intent to be used by 'agriculture and science teachers', the activity ...
Prison Planet.com
New IDW Books This Week! - IDW Publishing | The home of 30 Days ...
New IDW Books This Week! Wednesday, Mar 21st, 2012. Take a look at IDW's new books this week! Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and the Little King Otto Soglow (w & a & c). Click here for a preview! A BIG BOOK FOR A LITTLE KING! .... Shadow, the still in-progress Starstruck, and a myriad of stunning covers illustrated for nearly every comics publisher–as well as being part of the legendary STUDIO (along with Jeffery Catherine Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson).
IDW Publishing
Book Review: Can Science Determine Which Foods Taste Best ...
By Paul Adams
science,feature,paul_adams,book_reviews,books,flavor,food,reviews,taste,wine. science. 61211 ... Intriguing idea, yes; but the author sets it out in a hodgepodge of details with a diaphanous veneer of science, direly lacking the clear explanations of cause and effect that would make it truly useful. .... If that's what you call science, then I'm going to publish a bookalmost but not quite explaining why buttered toast lands butter-down, just because I think that may be the case. Link to this ...
Popular Science - New Technology,...
Meet Juror No. 4361: Denver Author Charged With Perjury After ...
By jonathanturley
Susan Cole thought she had a clever way out of jury duty. The author and Denver cosmetologist dressed up as a mentally unstable homeless person suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from military service and domestic violence. ... She is the author of the book, “Seven Initiations with El-Way's Secrets,” which promises readers that it will “renew your spiritual outlook and help you deal with difficult relationships and situations.” It uses passages from Genesis and Revelations for ...
JONATHAN TURLEY
Step by Step UI Design eBook
I hope you'll enjoy this eBook, it was written specially for hackers and ... In this eBook, I'll take you through my process for designing Kandan (an open source ... been very good at writing, I knew he'd grow up to become a famous eBook author ...
sachagreif.com/ebook/
Ten questions for an author: Alethea Black
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Her collection was chosen as a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" pick, and as an Oprah.com book of the week. Black will be in the Twin Cities for three bookstore appearances this month: 4 pm Sunday at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis; ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Utah author takes a lighthearted approach to bullying in new book
Dixie Press Online
Utah columnist and author TS Romney released his new book in February for kids ages 9 to 12 with a topic that nearly every child can relate to: bullying. In his book, TS Romney takes on the topic of bullying with a lighthearted twist.
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