Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending

Penguin to Expand E-Book Lending
New York Times (blog)
In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of print and digital books, to start e-book lending programs in the Los Angeles County library system, which will reach four million people, and the ...

E-Book Series Introduces a New Character: [Your Child's Name Here]
New York Times (blog)
Sourcebooks, a midsize Chicago publisher, will announce on Monday that it is introducing an app to allow customers truly to alter books to include a child's name throughout the copy. The app, Put Me in the Story, will allow its purchasers to take best ...

Book on Richmond depot to help finance restoration
Seattle Post Intelligencer
I decided right then I was going to write a book about the history of (the depot) site." That book will be available for purchase beginning Nov. 26. ... "No one hesitated when asked to enlist in helping to create this book," writes Martin on the ...

New book promises keys to hotel industry kingdom
The Associated Press
Jacob Tomsky promises readers the keys to the hotel industry kingdom in his tell-all book, "Heads in Beds." The one-time philosophy major has spent more than a decade working in the industry and, like room service, he delivers the goods. Take those ...

Spotlight on researcher for McCullough, Ken Burns
Huffington Post
If there were a category for "popular researchers," the list would have to begin with Hill, who can be found in the credits of so many books and documentaries, from McCullough's "John Adams" to Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower" to Burns' baseball ...

Thanksgiving for 2012 Books
Huffington Post (blog)
I've written variations of this Thanksgiving list just about every year since I read a book a day. One year it was to give special thanks to women writers, one year to add my two cents to the New York Times best books of the year list. I use my list to ...

The Book We're Talking About: 'Sweet Tooth' By Ian McEwan
Huffington Post
McEwan's most autobiographical novel to date tells the story of Serena, a young book lover and math scholar who is assigned to an exciting mission by the British security service during the early 70s. She is asked to coerce a modernist writer into ...

Second Cutest Book Ever: ZooBorns Goes Exotic
Wired
One of the goals of the ZooBorns website and books is to spread the word about the precarious situations many of these species are in and the efforts underway to save them. A portion of the proceeds from the book goes to support conservation work by ...

Wired

NYT: Penguin to extend ebook and audiobook library rentals to LA ...
By Mat Smith
Expect the same lending rules, with new books appearing six months after their first release and the bizarre 'one copy at a time' system, in which each title can only be rented at one person at any one time. Worse still, at least for libraries, at the ...
Engadget

Bookstore Installs Random Book Dispenser - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Bookstore Installs Random Book Dispenser. ... Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Harlequin is looking for a Freelance Editor. next job Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. is looking for a Publisher, Fairchild Books. see all · Bookselling ...
GalleyCat

Penguin to extend ebook and audiobook lending across US libraries ...
By Sam Byford
The new ebook expansion is said to include the same anachronistic lending terms as the current New York trials: books become available for lending six months after release, they can only be borrowed by one person at a time, and the library ...
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The Best Science Books of 2012 | Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
But in Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired (public library), a fine addition to these 7 essential books on time, German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg demonstrates through a wealth of research that our sleep .... theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was setting out to release A Brief History of Time, one of the most influential science books in modern history, his publishers admonished him that every equation included would halve the book's sales.
Brain Pickings

Book News: Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth, and the Poetry of Google ...
By Andrea DenHoed
I knew I wasn't going to get another good idea, or if I did, I'd have to slave over it.” An interview with Philip Roth about his recent retirement. (Also, read David Remnick on Roth's announcement.) Simon and Schuster...
Page-Turner

The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the History ...
Here's our list of ten books you must read if you want to understand this ... This book explores Earth as a "young planet," meaning in the years before the ...

The Dresden Files Reread: Book 3, Grave Peril | Tor.com
A reread of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books on Tor.com: Grave Peril. ... Together, he and Harry start the book dealing with a ghost who appears in a Chicago ...

Amazon's Jeff Bezos as 'Businessperson of the Year': Can the book ...
... for one of Amazon's new products, Kindle Serials, was author Charles Dickens, and he ... By and large, the book industry today is a beleaguered one, dogged by stagnant ... Apple and Flipboard team up to bring more books to iOS devices ... His inspiration for a new e-book product called Kindle Serials, delivered digitally ...

Hungry for knowledge? Vending machine dispenses random book ...
The shop focuses on odd and antique books, but every dealer ends up with a lot of ... Fowler described the machine as a success to book news magazine Quill ...



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