Los Angeles Times
The Internet search giant says users can now store up to 20000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks, download more than 450000 Android apps and games, browse e-books and rent movies on the digital media hub. The initiative brings together ... https://play.google.com/
A Brownsburg baller and his book on benchwarming
A.V. Club New York
As his first title hits the shelves of bookstores across the country today, the self-deprecating author stopped by The AV Club to give us the play-by-play on what to expect from the pages of Don't Put Me In, Coach. The AV Club: First thing first, ...
A.V. Club New York
BOOK REVIEW: Crawlspace and Cold Bullets
Tucson Citizen
-Dave Zeltserman, Author of Small Crimes and The Caretaker of Lorne Field. Detour if you dare into the dark alleys and twisted cul-de-sacs of the human heart. Brush shoulders with men whose eyes are as hard and cold as bullets – murderers, grifters, ...
Thoughts in Progress: Author John J. Smith: Have Patience Writing
By Mason Canyon
It's always fun to host a 'new-to-me' author and learn more about them and their writing. Today please help me welcome John. J. Smith as one of those intriguing authors .... I post them here, as well as several other sites such as Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. If you are an author who would like for me to review your book or you would like to guest blog here, please contact me atmcbookshelf@gmail.com. These reviews are done for the love of a good book, not for monetary ...
Thoughts in Progress
Making e-books even more kid-friendly: the Storia reading app from Scholastic
Christian Science Monitor
Kids' books will be getting the e-book treatment by children's publisher Scholastic through the Storia reading app, which includes multimedia e-books, an electronic bookshelf, quizzes, an e-dictionary and other interactive components.
Christian Science Monitor
The buzz in books - March 6
USA TODAY
--A mook?: What do you get when you mix a magazine article and a book? Electronic mini-books are allowing writers to publish shorter pieces, The New York Times reports. While Amazon is a major publisher, "Digital publishers like Byliner and The Atavist ...
USA TODAY
13 Judy Blume books coming out as e-books
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — A big batch of Judy Blume books are coming to the digital market. Random House Children's Books announced Wednesday that 13 stories by the million-selling author will be coming out as e-books this year, starting with 10 on March 21.
What's Next For Google Play? Audiobooks And Magazines
TechCrunch
Yesterday, Google announced the launch of Google Play, a rebranded Android Market which consolidates all of Google's media offerings, including apps, music, movies and e-books, into one portal. But it appears that Google's ambitions to create its own ...
The Book Of Revelation: 'Visions, Prophecy & Politics'
NPR
5:00 pm ET by Elaine H. Pagels The Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, has some of the most dramatic and frightening language in the Bible. In her new book Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation, ...
Scholastic enters the e-book fray with Storia and 1000 children's stories
Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien posted Mar 7th 2012 8:44AM Between Google Books, iBooks, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Sony... you'd figure the e-book field was crowded enough, right? Well, if you're specifically in the market for children's stories, things might look a ...
2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards by Smart Book Lovers Now Open for Submissions
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Smart Book Lovers, non-profit organization for people with high intellect and a passion for books, is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards. The Sharp Writ Book Awards are presented annually by Smart Book lovers to recognize ...
Android Market, Books, Music rebranded "Google Play" to compete with Apple's ...
Apple Insider
Google Play categorizes its content under Movies, Music, Books and Apps and Games, only the later of which requires an Android device. "Google Play is available on any computer with a modern browser at play.google.com," the company states on its ...
Jonathan Franzen – this time taking on Twitter – heaps more scorn on social media
Christian Science Monitor
Then e-books. Now Jonathan Franzen has turned his ire on Twitter. The notoriously luddite author of “Freedom” and “The Corrections” was speaking at Tulane University in New Orleans Monday when he turned from attacking “Revolutionary Road” (he dismissed ...
Christian Science Monitor
Thousands of Book and Magazine Publishing Executives to Convene in NYC for the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PHILADELPHIA, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Thousands of publishing executives from the book and magazine publishing industries will convene at the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square, March 19-21, for the Publishing Business Conference ...
Google Play unifies books, music, movies, games
Los Angeles Times
Seeking to create a single destination for digital media and entertainment, the Mountain View, Calif., company on Tuesday said it is pulling together its disparate books, music, movie and game efforts under one umbrella dubbed Google Play.
Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Celebrates 85th Birthday
Fox News
As Efe reported, the Nobel Prize-winning author stayed all day at his home in the exclusive neighborhood of Pedregal de San Angel with those closest to him, both family and employees, but with no lavish party to mark the occasion.
Michigan native perplexed by Rush Limbaugh's jabs at book
Detroit Free Press
"I had planned on shutting off the Internet today, but some random person just tweeted me, saying he had heard about me from Rush Limbaugh," said McMillan, 35, who spoke from San Francisco, the first stop on a book tour for her first book, ...
Scholastic launches Storia, an ebook platform for kids
The Verge
By Sam Byford on March 7, 2012 01:56 am 1Comments Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, is making a drive into the ebook market with its own dedicated store and reading app. Storia just launched in beta for Windows PCs, ...
Political strategist, pollster, author & commentator
Forbes
Douglas E. Schoen is a political strategist, Fox News contributor, and author of several booksincluding the forthcoming “Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond” (Rowman and Littlefield).
Random House eBook price increase effects local libraries
Examiner.com
Local Michiana library systems will see this increase reflected in their eBook purchases. "The library is always watching the bottom line", Pamela Armstrong stated in response to the news of Random House increasing their ebook pricing.
Healing Spices Book Receives ABC's Duke Award for Consumer and Popular Books ...
Bradenton Herald
The book was written by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, and Debora Yost, and published by Sterling Publishing in 2011. Dr. Aggarwal, author of Healing Spices, has been a faculty member at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Lost Majority'
Washington Times
By W. James Antle III - Special to The Washington Times By Sean Trende Fewauthors are as appropriately named as Sean Trende. The senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics is a premier political number cruncher, regularly churning out readable ...
Washington Times
Android Market checks out, Google Play moves in
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience. Beginning Tuesday, the Android Market will be known as the Google Play...
The Associated Press
World Book Day: Please will you tell us a story
The Press, York
World Book Day was celebrated at schools across the region with youngsters dressing up as their favourite characters. At one primary in York written invitations were sent out to guests to come in and read to the children, as Education Reporter Haydn ...
Five things you may not know about Google Play
CNET
Today, Google announced Google Play, a service that combines Google Music, Books, Movies, and Apps into one entertainment hub. In a nutshell, Google Music, Google eBookstore, and the Android Market were combined to form Google Play.
Latest Version of Thomson Reuters ProViewTM eReader Platform Launches Globally
Reuters
Thomson Reuters ProView is a first-of-its-kind, professional-grade platform for the delivery and use anywhere, anytime of specialized Thomson Reuters content and productivity tools, including popular legal reference books from Thomson Reuters Westlaw, ...
Latino activists smuggling blacklisted books into Arizona
New York Daily News
By Marcelo Ballve / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS New Yokers Elizabeth Calixto and Rich Villar have joined the campaign to send "forbidden" books to Arizona. Latino activists who have dubbed themselves “librotraficantes,” or “book traffickers,” are planning to ...
New York Daily News
Only Six Books: Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson's New Memoir
Daily Beast
I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, “The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.” I thought to myself, Too late for what? I began to read books in secret—there was no other way—and every ...
Godin to authors: You have no right to make money any more ...
By Mathew Ingram
In a recent interview with Digital Book World, the writer and creator of the Domino Project — a joint publishing venture with Amazon that he recently wound up — was asked about his advice that authors should give their books away for free, and that ... To take just two examples, the news industry is struggling to adapt to an era where anyone can commit “random acts of journalism” with a blog or smartphone — and where sources of news have the ability to publish their own content ...
GigaOM
USA TODAY
--A mook?: What do you get when you mix a magazine article and a book? Electronic mini-books are allowing writers to publish shorter pieces, The New York Times reports. While Amazon is a major publisher, "Digital publishers like Byliner and The Atavist ...
USA TODAY
13 Judy Blume books coming out as e-books
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — A big batch of Judy Blume books are coming to the digital market. Random House Children's Books announced Wednesday that 13 stories by the million-selling author will be coming out as e-books this year, starting with 10 on March 21.
What's Next For Google Play? Audiobooks And Magazines
TechCrunch
Yesterday, Google announced the launch of Google Play, a rebranded Android Market which consolidates all of Google's media offerings, including apps, music, movies and e-books, into one portal. But it appears that Google's ambitions to create its own ...
The Book Of Revelation: 'Visions, Prophecy & Politics'
NPR
5:00 pm ET by Elaine H. Pagels The Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, has some of the most dramatic and frightening language in the Bible. In her new book Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation, ...
Scholastic enters the e-book fray with Storia and 1000 children's stories
Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien posted Mar 7th 2012 8:44AM Between Google Books, iBooks, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Sony... you'd figure the e-book field was crowded enough, right? Well, if you're specifically in the market for children's stories, things might look a ...
2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards by Smart Book Lovers Now Open for Submissions
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Smart Book Lovers, non-profit organization for people with high intellect and a passion for books, is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards. The Sharp Writ Book Awards are presented annually by Smart Book lovers to recognize ...
Android Market, Books, Music rebranded "Google Play" to compete with Apple's ...
Apple Insider
Google Play categorizes its content under Movies, Music, Books and Apps and Games, only the later of which requires an Android device. "Google Play is available on any computer with a modern browser at play.google.com," the company states on its ...
Jonathan Franzen – this time taking on Twitter – heaps more scorn on social media
Christian Science Monitor
Then e-books. Now Jonathan Franzen has turned his ire on Twitter. The notoriously luddite author of “Freedom” and “The Corrections” was speaking at Tulane University in New Orleans Monday when he turned from attacking “Revolutionary Road” (he dismissed ...
Christian Science Monitor
Thousands of Book and Magazine Publishing Executives to Convene in NYC for the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PHILADELPHIA, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Thousands of publishing executives from the book and magazine publishing industries will convene at the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square, March 19-21, for the Publishing Business Conference ...
Google Play unifies books, music, movies, games
Los Angeles Times
Seeking to create a single destination for digital media and entertainment, the Mountain View, Calif., company on Tuesday said it is pulling together its disparate books, music, movie and game efforts under one umbrella dubbed Google Play.
Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez Celebrates 85th Birthday
Fox News
As Efe reported, the Nobel Prize-winning author stayed all day at his home in the exclusive neighborhood of Pedregal de San Angel with those closest to him, both family and employees, but with no lavish party to mark the occasion.
Michigan native perplexed by Rush Limbaugh's jabs at book
Detroit Free Press
"I had planned on shutting off the Internet today, but some random person just tweeted me, saying he had heard about me from Rush Limbaugh," said McMillan, 35, who spoke from San Francisco, the first stop on a book tour for her first book, ...
Scholastic launches Storia, an ebook platform for kids
The Verge
By Sam Byford on March 7, 2012 01:56 am 1Comments Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, is making a drive into the ebook market with its own dedicated store and reading app. Storia just launched in beta for Windows PCs, ...
Political strategist, pollster, author & commentator
Forbes
Douglas E. Schoen is a political strategist, Fox News contributor, and author of several booksincluding the forthcoming “Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond” (Rowman and Littlefield).
Random House eBook price increase effects local libraries
Examiner.com
Local Michiana library systems will see this increase reflected in their eBook purchases. "The library is always watching the bottom line", Pamela Armstrong stated in response to the news of Random House increasing their ebook pricing.
Healing Spices Book Receives ABC's Duke Award for Consumer and Popular Books ...
Bradenton Herald
The book was written by Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, and Debora Yost, and published by Sterling Publishing in 2011. Dr. Aggarwal, author of Healing Spices, has been a faculty member at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Lost Majority'
Washington Times
By W. James Antle III - Special to The Washington Times By Sean Trende Fewauthors are as appropriately named as Sean Trende. The senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics is a premier political number cruncher, regularly churning out readable ...
Washington Times
Android Market checks out, Google Play moves in
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience. Beginning Tuesday, the Android Market will be known as the Google Play...
The Associated Press
World Book Day: Please will you tell us a story
The Press, York
World Book Day was celebrated at schools across the region with youngsters dressing up as their favourite characters. At one primary in York written invitations were sent out to guests to come in and read to the children, as Education Reporter Haydn ...
Five things you may not know about Google Play
CNET
Today, Google announced Google Play, a service that combines Google Music, Books, Movies, and Apps into one entertainment hub. In a nutshell, Google Music, Google eBookstore, and the Android Market were combined to form Google Play.
Latest Version of Thomson Reuters ProViewTM eReader Platform Launches Globally
Reuters
Thomson Reuters ProView is a first-of-its-kind, professional-grade platform for the delivery and use anywhere, anytime of specialized Thomson Reuters content and productivity tools, including popular legal reference books from Thomson Reuters Westlaw, ...
Latino activists smuggling blacklisted books into Arizona
New York Daily News
By Marcelo Ballve / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS New Yokers Elizabeth Calixto and Rich Villar have joined the campaign to send "forbidden" books to Arizona. Latino activists who have dubbed themselves “librotraficantes,” or “book traffickers,” are planning to ...
New York Daily News
Only Six Books: Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson's New Memoir
Daily Beast
I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, “The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.” I thought to myself, Too late for what? I began to read books in secret—there was no other way—and every ...
Godin to authors: You have no right to make money any more ...
By Mathew Ingram
In a recent interview with Digital Book World, the writer and creator of the Domino Project — a joint publishing venture with Amazon that he recently wound up — was asked about his advice that authors should give their books away for free, and that ... To take just two examples, the news industry is struggling to adapt to an era where anyone can commit “random acts of journalism” with a blog or smartphone — and where sources of news have the ability to publish their own content ...
GigaOM
Here Are A Few Important Things E-Book Sellers Aren't Bragging ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
Glancing at your bulging bookshelf and then over at your slim reader might make you wonder if paperbooks will someday go the way of the dinosaur in favor of e-books. For a few reasons at least, hang on to those paper copies, ... There's no such thing as "one-reader-fits all": Switching from one brand of e-reader to another isn't going to be easy, at least when it comes to bringing along all the booksyou've already purchased. Publishers say they aren't really your books, you've only ...
The Consumerist
Google Play: Apps, Music, Movies, and Books All Under One Roof
By Brent Rose
Today Google took steps to get all of its entertainment ducklings in a row. Google Play is the new umbrella that will cover the company's Apps, Movies, Music, and Books offerings. It'll cover both desktops and Android phones. Think iTunes for ...
Gizmodo
Justin Bieber's Mom To Publish Memoir 'Nowhere But Up'
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... her son's rise to superstardom. Pattie Mallette signed a deal with Revell Books to publish, "Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom." ... The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom." Thebook's publisher said in a statement Tuesday that Mallette will share details of the trauma, abuse and addiction that plagued her early childhood and young adult years, leading to a suicide attempt when she was 17. ... Transgender Author: Why I Decided To Become... Letters In The Mail: The Rumpus ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Book Review: A Toast to Bargain Wines by George Taber ...
Book Review: A Toast to Bargain Wines by George Taber. Review by Tim Patterson Books and articles about bargain wines are a dime a dozen--check that, a nickel a dozen. And like many forms of wine recommendations, they tend to be ...
Vinography: A Wine Blog
Matt's new book — Marginal Revolution
By Tyler Cowen
... answer, I wonder if the e-book format is adequate. Matt has argued that the shorter-than-a-book-but-longer-than-a-magazine-feature is the perfect size for the e-book and that the e-book was a good size for TRITDH, but now I'm not sure.
Marginal Revolution
The core of the author platform is unchanged — it's the tools ...
By Jenn Webb
In the following interview, Jeff Potter (@cookingforgeeks), author of "Cooking for Geeks," talks about the changing author platform, which is requiring authors to don marketing hats and connect with readers directly. He says the book as a product is ... I was incredibly lucky to have my book come out the same month that JetBlue sold its "All You Can Fly" pass — I put up a blog post that read, "If you buy a box of books, and JetBlue flies to your city, I'll come and give a talk." This worked out ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
Google Play: Movies, Books, Music & Apps from Google
By Jon Mitchell
Google just took the wrapper off a new service called Google Play. It's a single cloud-based media store for apps, songs, books and movies that streams between Android devices and the desktop. The Android Market and Google Music have ...
ReadWriteWeb
Audio Books in Google Play?
By Alex Chitu
The Google Play help center includes an empty page titled "Audio Books". There are also two genres with a similar name: "audio books" and "audiobooks", but the ebook store doesn't include audiobooks. Genres could be automatically ...
Google Operating System
3 Books to Help You Grow Beautiful Edible Gardens From Yard ...
By Ramon Gonzalez
Rosalind Creasy literally wrote the book on edible landscaping 25 years ago. The original Edible Landscaping (Sierra Club Books, 1992) popularized the idea of the edible front yard. Today, there are pale imitations of Edible Landscaping ...
Latest Items from TreeHugger
Google Music, Movies and Books updated with Play branding
By Kevin Krause
While the Google Play Store hasn't quite made the complete transition over to our Android handsets, other applications are getting the full treatment. The artists formerly known as Google Music, Google Movies, and Google Books have all ...
Android Phone Fans
Jeff Polman: The Top 25 Baseball Books for Your Desert Island
By Jeff Polman
From Cobb's father being accidentally shot and killed by his mother, to Cobb jumping into the stands to pound on a crippled, heckling fan, to hardly anyone showing up for his funeral, the book is the baseball bio equivalent of Raging Bull. 21. Crazy '08 by ... The author, an L.A. Times reporter in the early '90s when it was still a good newspaper, took a year off to travel around the country in his RV, visiting minor league parks and writing about the teams, players and fans. Starting in the ...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (February 2012) | The Big ...
By Barry Ritholtz
In addition to throwing off minor referral revenue, the Amazon embed code lets me track every click from these links — how many people look at the page, how many books gt collectively purchased. Its anonymous — I don't know who bought ...
The Big Picture
Brewster Kahle archives millions of paper books against uncertain ...
By Chris Meadows
Last year we mentioned the physical book archive Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, has started, stockpiling physical books in cargo containers in.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
New tell-all book reveals how Mick Jagger begged his wife Bianca ...
Author of the book, Debra Sharon Davis, who spent time travelling with The Rolling Stones in the 1980's goes on to explain that Jagger's former wife wasn't ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../New-tell-book-reveals-Mick-Jagger-b...
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