| Amazon Publishing Leaps Forward; HarperCollins Smells a Monopoly Big Think (blog) (The Columbia Publishing Course, a condensed graduate program for publishing job-seekers, saw a major spike in applicants this year despite dismal industry-wide hiring and salary prospects.) A lot of it will come from authors, a profession for which ... | ||
| Dolly Parton hails free book scheme The Press Association More than 40000 free books have been donated to children in Scotland by a foundation headed by country singer Dolly Parton. The singer was in Glasgow on Sunday to mark the success of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which aims to give looked after ... | ||
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| Ebooks: the great rekindling of our love of reading The Guardian The average UK shopper now spends £4 per month on ebooks and 53% of Kindle users say they are now reading more books than ever before. Better still, grumpy bibliophiles are falling in love with the Kindle's sleek, reader-friendly lines, ... | ||
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| Rise of e-books will benefit one group: readers Eagle Tribune Cries of doom have been the publishing industry's favorite pastime for the past 70 years, since the introduction of paperbacks, derided as "throwaway books" that devalued reading itself. In the 1940s, the creation of so-called trade paperbacks, ... | ||
| Choosing the Right Books for Quality Reading? Southern Pines Pilot This latest investigation into the great mystery of the gutsy skyjacker who parachuted into the night with a ton of money kept nagging me as I browsed through the books on display at The Country Bookshop. “Read me, read me,” it kept whispering. ... | ||
| Sunday books: Joseph Heller, Freud's cocaine and more Los Angeles Times (blog) It's been 50 years since the publication of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," an occasion marked by two new books: the first biography of the author, who died in 1999, and a memoir from his wryly funny daughter. Carolyn Kellogg reviews "Just One Catch: A ... | ||
| What is Intel's 'The Tomorrow Project'? [Video and Podcast] International Business Times By IB Times Staff Reporter | August 21, 2011 5:08 AM EDT World's largest semiconductor chip maker Intel has commissioned top science fiction authors to pen short stories that will imagine future uses for the firm's technology. ... | ||
| Kendal Rautzhan: Books teach kids about integrity Reading Eagle Today's reviewed books address this in various ways for different age groups. Ask your librarian and bookseller to point out other books that deal with this topic. Anything we can do to help children develop an incorruptible code of values is well ... | ||
| Free entertainment, for life CNN (CNN) -- Are you a person who loves to read books? If so, you're set for life. It's one of those things most of us seldom pause to think about. After all, much of the news about the book publishing business has been kind of grim lately. ... | ||
| Penguin India Launches Mobile Application International Business Times By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 21, 2011 8:05 AM EDT Leading book publisher, Penguin Books India has launched a mobile application that offers information of all books by the penguin Books India. The new mobile app supports iPhone and Nokia Symbian ... | ||
| Authors take 'Operation Thriller' to troops Monterey County Herald In this year's tour, the authors will make the long trek to the Middle East — a trip that Peterson says will take about two and a half days — to spend time with the troops, and sign autographs, pose for photos and talk to them about books, movies, ... | ||
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| First read: New books from Columbus to Gilded Age NYC Asbury Park Press Even though we grew up in Arizona, land of the free, home of the brave and active hub of the John Birch Society — even with all of that, we found out in school that Native Americans got a pretty raw deal following Cristóbal Colón's discovery of ... | ||
| 5 books on: Views of Islamism in Egypt Al-Masry Al-Youm If you piled up all the books that feature one-dimensional Islamist characters, you would have a veritable mountain of thrillers, detective novels, faux memoirs and pop political science. As you climbed toward the summit, you would find that in most of ... | ||
| Warren Adler: E-Books: Unintended Consequences By Warren Adler The number of self-published e-books has surpassed and will continue to surpass books published through the time-honored process of editing and distribution that has been the practice of publishing companies for centuries. ... Believe me, I am in no way insulting the efforts of such authors who choose this mode of self-expression. There is a lot to say for the psychic joys of creating and publishing a book and hopefully getting it in the hands of a reader. ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
| 9 PHP and MySQL Books You Should Get Your Hands On | UnderWorld ... By Creative Director A lot of my coding skills did come from books and just searching the internet. Here you will find 9 PHP and MySQL Books You Should Get Your Hands On I'm not saying buy all 9 just find the best one for you. UnderWorld Magazines | ||
| Blogging Pompeii: Books on offer By j-t-berry@hotmail.co.uk (Jo Berry) I've been contacted by Bob Leahy in the USA who has a number of books about Pompeii and Herculaneum that he would like to donate to a scholar or library (preferably in the USA). Would anyone be interested in the following, as described ... Blogging Pompeii | ||
| Childrens Books With Economics Lessons — Marginal Revolution By Alex Tabarrok NYTimes: Justin Wolfers, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, cited “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type” by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin, a book about cows that withhold milk from a farmer until he ... Marginal Revolution | ||
| The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net By Seth Fischer It's Sunday again, always the best day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Here's a roundup of what we've been up to all week. The Dead Man's Back Arches — Lois Bassen reviews Vertigo, Marvin Bell's latest poetry collection. ... The Rumpus.net | ||
| S. Krishna's Books: Book Review: The Pillars of the Earth - Ken ... By Swapna There were multiple reasons - too high expectations, the length - but with the new miniseries and the fact that I have been much more eager to read long books as of late, I decided to pick it up. I was at once impressed by the ... S. Krishna's Books | ||
| Five books in a suitcase By Mr. Whiskets The first is the new Enrique Metinides book Series from Kominek Books. Metinides is often referred to as the "Mexican Weegee." Metinides worked as a newspaper photographer and many of his gritty, often gruesome images were used in the ... 5B4 | ||
| Three Books That You Should Be Reading - Coordination Problem By Peter Boettke Peter Boettke| Garrett Barden and Tim Murphy, Law and Justice in Community (Oxford University Press, 2010). This is a fantastic social-philosophic examination of the origins of law outside of the formal apparatus of the state. Coordination Problem | ||
| Ghana Airports Company Ladies donate computers and books to Mole ... By spyghananews Other items were exercise books, pens, pencils, erasers, chalk, sandals and “T” shirts. Mrs Doreen Owusu-Fianko, Managing Director of GACL, who made the donation on behalf of the Association, said it was part of their ... Spyghana.com |
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