ZDNet
Summary: Two years after the Kindle was launched in the UK, Amazon's customers there are now buying more ebooks than printed books. In the US, the distance between the Kindle release and that milestone was four years. ... "Over the past year, there has ...
Wigtown Book Festival: Scotland's answer to Hay-on-Wye
Telegraph.co.uk
There you'll find Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town, a mini Hay-on-Wye with a kilt — with a dozen second-hand bookshops and a quarter of a million books. Sometimes this works: more often, I feel I'm giving directions to an obscure part of Kazakhstan.
Telegraph.co.uk
Social Media for Authors: A Bubble About to Burst?
Huffington Post
And ten years ago, no big six publisher would even consider a book by an author with no tangible "platform." True, the marketing pressure on authors has increased as the publishing industry implodes. But contrasting today's social media craze to a ...
In Google Books Case, Authors Guild Asks for Damages that Could Exceed $1 ...
Publishers Weekly
If the Authors Guild prevails in its legal battle over Google's library book scanning program the search giant could theoretically be on the hook for over $1 billion in damages. According to theAuthors Guild motion for summary judgment, filed on July ...
New Venture to 'Fansource' Book Events
Publishers Weekly
Looking to address the major problem with promotional book events—the dreaded barely attended reading/signing—science author Andrew Kessler is launching a new online venture called Togather.com, a “fansourcing” platform that allows authors or their ...
E-book Piracy: A Rose by Any Other Name
Huffington Post
He admits he knows what he did was wrong, and says he sent the publisher a check in compensation. ... The debate generated by Pogue's blog post isn't about why the pirate sites exist, or whether it's the publishers' fault that they exist because their ...
Book Review: The Big Book Of Dan: Road Alligators And Other Incongruous ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
In Dulik's book The Big Book Of Dan: Road Alligators and Other Incongruous Possibilities, Dulik offers wacky, humorous, and off-the-wall viewpoints on a wide range of subject material. Traversing time, space, and a number of other conundrums in between ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Old Book Projects: How To Reuse Novels, Non-Fiction And More
Huffington Post
This is a super cool DIY project: an easy, awesome way to use up a whole stack of old books(either hard or paperback) without <a href="http://carpenters.networx.com/" target="_hplink">having to be a professional carpenter</a>. ... e-Reader Cover. You ...
'The Shining' book sequel, movie prequel
USA TODAY
--Book covers: NPR asks, "In the e-book world, are book covers a dying art?" Meanwhile, author Patrick Wensick blogs about his experience as an ephemeral Internet star when Jack Daniel's sent him a cease and desist letter claiming hisbook's cover ...
USA TODAY
Author: Hatch is record industry's 'Senator Fido'
Salt Lake Tribune (blog)
Reid's new book is a science-fiction comic novel, Year Zero, about an intergalactic threat to the Earth – prompted because the rest of the universe has fallen in love with Earth's popular music. In the book, two aliens visit a lowly copyright lawyer ...
Author Peter James And Sidekick Track Seaside Crime
NPR
Author Peter James And Sidekick Track Seaside Crime. by Vicki Barker ... And guess what happens in the book," James says with a laugh. James lists his ... After turning over a book to his publisher, Peter James wakes up the next day and starts on the ...
Novelist Maeve Binchy Was Childless, Not Heartless
Huffington Post (blog)
In an essay published in last week's Telegraph, author Amanda Craig makes the unfortunate argument that the late, beloved, famed novelist Maeve Binchy would have been a better writer had she been a mother, giving her a "deeper understanding of human ...
Appeals Court upholds decision on book ban
Sin Chew Jit Poh
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 6 (Bernama) -- The Appeals Court here today upheld a high court decision which had dismissed an application by the author of a book on the 2001 violent clashes in Kampung Medan to quash the home minister's decision in banning the ...
Erie library seeks to bridge digital divide
San Francisco Chronicle
"It's just like a (printed) book in that regard," Stewart said. Technology did pose a problem for some e-book users when the library first started offering e-books: Users who owned a Kindle, Amazon's popular e-reader, had to buy the books directly from ...
Book Review: Psychic Intuition: Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask But Were ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Du Tertre documents how Edgar Cayce, the noted psychic and scientist, was said to have the ability to sleep on his books and retain the knowledge contained in them. The Croatian born inventor Nikola Tesla was known to memorize many complete books ...
Outside a Dog Book Festival
Washington Post
Book World bestsellers Aug. 6 ... .. Event (e.g., concert, exhibit, festival, theater performance, happy hour, author ...
HuffPost Book Club: A How-To Guide
Huffington Post (blog)
We're four people with varied backgrounds, but we all have a rapid hunger for reading, and we started this club because we know the way you engage with books has probably changed since the dawn of the ereader and Twitter and Facebook - it has for us ...
BOOK EXCERPT: Elton John on the Friends He's Lost to AIDS
Advocate.com
BOOK EXCERPT: Elton John on the Friends He's Lost to AIDS. In this exclusive excerpt from his memoir Love is the Cure, the iconic entertainer reveals how his life was transformed by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Advocate.com
Mark Snyder: New book brings to life Michigan football program's legends, history
Detroit Free Press
With an introductory spread on each, summarizing the key nation and world moments along with the decade on the field, the book breaks its form only briefly to honor the most significant figures (13 legends and the stadium), concluding with a page for ...
Wiley Announces Seven New Books on OS X Mountain Lion
Sacramento Bee
"With over 200 new features in OS X Mountain Lion, users will be able to quickly gain knowledge on everything the new operating software has to offer through Wiley's latest books," said Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, author of OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies ...
Book Review: The Mers by Ami Blackwelder
Blogcritics.org (blog)
In The Mers by Ami Blackwelder, the author takes us into such a situation, one our heroine, Mira, can only guess at. Living among the Mers, a people that have evolved after the Great Deluge, she understands she is not like them. They have gills and ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Brothers' Book Tells How They Solved Hero Father's World War II Death
NewsMax.com
Three Boston-area brothers “made one of the most stunning finds” in 2007 when they found the wreckage of a submarine commanded by their father that had gone down 70 years ago without a trace in the Alaskan waters during World War II, the author of a ...
Jonathan Wood, Author of Yesterday's Hero On Geekdom, Action Flicks, and ...
Wired News
Last week we shared that GeekDad is hosting free digital versions of Jonathan Wood's twobooks, No Hero and its brand new sequel, Yesterday's Hero for the next week. Well, if you still haven't had a chance to download them, or for some reason just ...
Book World: 'Buried on Avenue B'
Washington Post
Although the mystery of the boy's death is interesting enough, what you'll most likely remember are the book's one-liners and strange characters, such as a bearded lady who works in a sideshow, a woman of 90 whose bawdy bedroom proclivities shock ...
Prolific reviewer Myron Marty closes his books
STLtoday.com
Jane Henderson, the Post-Dispatch's book editor since 1992, says, “I doubt there are very many reviewers, especially for daily newspapers, who have reviewed long enough to have written about every one of those Caro books. His depth of knowledge, ... It ...
Sharjah Book Fair teams up with education ministry
gulfnews.com
During the meeting, Al Ameri thanked Humaid Al Qutami, minister of education, for his call urging students to participate and meet Arab and international authors and literary figures during the Sharjah Book Fair, to be held from November 7 to 17 ...
Fitzhenry & Whiteside acquires Whitecap Books
Publishers Weekly
Canadian publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside have acquired Whitecap Books, the British Columbia independent best known for its culinary tites. Whitecap Books co-owner and publisher Michael Burch says he and co-owner Nick Rundall decided to sell their ...
ebrary Enhances Strategic E-book Acquisition Program for Public Libraries
Sacramento Bee
About ebrary (www.ebrary.com) ebrary helps customers acquire e-books strategically through a three step approach: Transition, Diversify and Streamline™. The company believes that by challenging the e-book status quo, organizations can effectively ...
Amazon Now Selling More EBooks Than Real Books In The UK ...
By John Biggs
According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago. It took four years for U.S. ebook sales to overtake print ...
TechCrunch
TIPS FOR EBOOK AUTHORS: Part 3 of 3 | TeleRead: News and ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
An Excerpt From Ebook Author Success Guide, by Steve Bareham }} TIPS FOR EBOOK AUTHORS | Part 3 of 3 Part I | Part II ♤ ♤ ♤ For. ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... Increasingly, the e- reader crowd is willing and able to nail offending authors. ... We do accept public domain content; however we may choose to not sell a public domain book if its content is undifferentiated or barely differentiated from one or more other books.” * * * ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
APA honors book on literacy | Harvard Gazette
The book reports research undertaken over several decades at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE); a feature article on the Nepal part of this work appeared in the Gazette in 1997. Robert LeVine is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development Emeritus at HGSE; Sarah LeVine is a former research associate there; and the other three co-authors are former students who received their Ed.D.s at Harvard. The book is the final report of the Project on ...
Harvard Gazette
Barnes & Noble Giving Away Disney Books with Nook Purchase ...
By Dianna Dilworth
... Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is looking for a Publicist- LBYR. next job Candlewick Press is looking for a Publishing Technologies Specialist. next job Penguin Group (USA) is looking for a Publicity Manager-Penguin Press. see all · Barnes & Noble ... The book retailer has been giving away differenteBook collections to Nook Tablet customers throughout the summer. Once a customer buys the tablet, they are given a download ...
GalleyCat
Author Interview: Peter Brown
By Design Mom
These same qualities make him a pretty wonderful children's book author and illustrator, too. When he describes his process — “I say as much as possible with my paintings, and whatever I can't say with the art I say with words. My stories don't ...
Design Mom
Paris Review – Man Pulls Sword over Badly Treated Book: Happy ...
By Sadie Stein
“Christopher Meusburger, twenty-nine, of St. Paul, Minnesota, allegedly threatened his sixty-two-year-old neighbor with a sword on Monday night after she complained that he mistreated a bookshe lent him, the Pioneer Press reports.” A list of ...
The Paris Review
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Rory O'Connor, Friends, Followers and the
By Beth Becker
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Rory O'Connor, Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media. Author: Beth Becker Sunday, August 5, 2012 12:00 pm Pacific ...
Book Salon
Q: “How many books does the average American read a year ...
By by cathay
Q: How many books does the average American read per year, and has this been affected by the rising popularity of ebooks? There are some ... In April, 2012, the Pew Internet and American Life Project published a study centered around ebook usage. This indepth report gave us a lot to think ... Pew goes on to state that the average reader of e-books read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months; the average non-e-book consumer read an average of 15. But again, age and ...
Division of Libraries' Blog
Flavorwire » A Brief Survey of Unlikely Literary Friendships
By Emily Temple
It's a well known fact that, like any contemporaries in a wide artistic field, authors like to hang out together. It makes sense — who else could a writer gripe to, swap critiques with, and steal ideas from? But sometimes we're a little surprised as to ...
Flavorwire
Book Review: Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead | The Book Smugglers
By Ana
How did I get this book: Review copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Why did I ... Review: In Middle Grade, books about young boys having a hard time at home and/or at school are a dime a dozen and as such it is imperative that new books with this particular storyline offer something unique to the reader. ... To borrow from the book's recurrent conversation about the Science of Taste- Liar & Spy is an absolutely delicious book, cementing Rebecca Stead's place as a favourite author.
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By Ana
How did I get this book: Review copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Why did I ... Review: In Middle Grade, books about young boys having a hard time at home and/or at school are a dime a dozen and as such it is imperative that new books with this particular storyline offer something unique to the reader. ... To borrow from the book's recurrent conversation about the Science of Taste- Liar & Spy is an absolutely delicious book, cementing Rebecca Stead's place as a favourite author.
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