Are There Too Many Books?

Are There Too Many Books?
The Atlantic
Unfortunately, most books fall short of their authors' fantasies for them. A major magazine piece or substantial news takeout is almost certain to reach a larger audience than a book on the same subject. Great news stories -- take the Bernard Madoff ...
NASA to work on approved sci-fi books
Register
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author NASA is working with a publisher to create a series of sci-fi books inspired by NASA's work. The US space agency has inked an agreement with Tor-ForgeBooks to work on "NASA Inspired Works of Fiction" that ...
Indie author Locke gets a sweetheart deal with publisher
Examiner.com
But authors won a bit as well, when RH agreed to pay a full 25% royalty rate on ebooks, so the fight mellowed and life went on. Until now. Authors can utilize distributors like Amazon's KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and Smashwords.com to publish and ...
First Book Provides 300000 Books to West Virginia Kids
PR Newswire (press release)
23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First Book has provided 294228 brand-new books to children in need across West Virginia, and plans to distribute 14000 more by the end of the summer. "With our reading scores what they are in the state, ...
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in libraries, books
Washington Post (blog)
The children's librarians there, Mary F. Phelan and Eboni Curry, have shared below a list of suggested books for different age groups. A more comprehensive collection is on display and available at the library. “Martin's Big Words,” by Doreen Rappaport ...
Republic ban challenged
Springfield News-Leader
Calling the removal of two books "educationally unsound and constitutionally suspect," officials from nine national groups are urging the Republic school board to reverse its decision. An Aug. 18 letter to Superintendent Vern Minor -- signed by top ...
Exclusive Interview With Publishing Visionary Richard Nash: Writing And ...
Huffington Post
The notion that we're "devaluing" a product by charging less for it is hokum--we do far more devaluing of books by publishing sequels, knockoffs, celebrity memoirs etc. People pay $25K/year to do an MFA--I don't think there's a problem with the loss of ...
National Literacy Trust Survey: Children Prefer Texts And Emails To Books
Huffington Post
Young people prefer reading text messages and emails to books, with one in five consider reading outside of class “embarrassing”, a survey has shown. The results, published on Tuesday, show only one in six UK children between eight and 17 years of age ...
Books: Alexandra Fuller documents her African childhood
Salt Lake Tribune
By ben Fulton Memoirs today seem to be the pizza-delivery service of the book world. The ingredients are right at hand. And if you know what you're doing, they're easy enough to cook up for binding between two covers. Alexandra Fuller did the genre one ...
220 Authors Confirmed For 2011 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 9/15-18
Broadway World
Cultural and programming partners are BAM, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Cave Canem, The Center for Fiction, Housing Works Bookstore CafĂ©, The Nation, the National Book Foundation, The New York Review of Books, PEN American ...
On the Books Aug. 23: Neil Gaiman's HBO deal for 'American Gods,' Kathryn ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
He joins Sloane Crosley, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Tom Perrotta in the slate of authors recently tapped by HBO to try their hand at writing for television. Echoing Salman Rushdie's praise of cable television as a storytelling medium, ...
Deborah Reed takes a long, unusual route to publishing success
OregonLive.com
By Jeff Baker, The Oregonian 2009 was a terrible year for the publishing industry. The recession was raging, e-books hadn't yet reached critical mass, and no one could see a future that didn't involve layoffs and store closures and loads of anxiety. ...
A Few Great Listening Books
Huffington Post
I live in a city and haven't driven in a million years, so I only began listening to books when I figured out that I could do so while running. While slow of foot, I'm a speedy reader and have discovered that certain books work better than others, ...
Do you suppose the President and his daughters share books?
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
President Obama and his family leave A Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Martha's Vineyard. Photo by the Associated Press. According to the Boston Globe, which is shadowing him diligently, President Obama is keeping a pretty low profile during his Martha's ...
Did the Plastic Industry Rewrite California's Text Books?
Earth Island Journal
by Amy Westervelt – August 22, 2011Follow Amy Westervelt on Twitter A California Watch report published Friday found evidence that the California state EPA allowed the American Chemistry Council to have undue influence over the drafting of the state's ...
Power of Words: Sarah Michelle Gellar's fear for the future of books
CNN (blog)
She worries that we may be getting too digital when it comes to reading and libraries put physicalbooks down at 'kid level' where curious young minds can discover new stories and new authors on paper. "Morning Express with Robin Meade" correspondent ...
Are we awash in a sea of fabricated reviews?
Christian Science Monitor
Increasingly, writers-for-hire are paid to write glowing online reviews of books they haven't read. Cornell University researchers check for an excessive number of superlatives to determine if an online book review is for real. ...
US law firms target Apple and US publishers over e-books
The Bookseller
Several US law firms have now filed lawsuits against Apple and major US publishers alleging what one described as a "horizontal conspiracy" to fix and increase the price of e-books in the US. One firm has also now moved for the lawsuits to be heard ...
Your guide to the best children's books available in Norwich this summer
Norwich Evening News
The top 10 summer reads for children are: 1) Lego Mini figure Ultimate Sticker Collection, DK Publishing, £7.99. What child doesn't love Lego mini figures? This incredible super-sized sticker book is packed with colourful images and easy-peel stickers. ...
Books tell tales of families who lived and died in early Dover Township
Westlake | Bay Village Observer
Cuyahoga West Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society has two award-winning books available for purchase: "Maple Ridge Cemetery Westlake, Cuyahoga County, OH: A history of Its People and Families" by Jeanne B. Workman and Jayne A. Broestl and ...
Unique book sale at Seaside Library
Seaside Signal
Everything a book lover would likely want to find will likely be at this sale. "We have fiction, non fiction, the classics, popular authors, and how-to books," Burke said. There are so many new booksthat the sale will be spread over several days. ...
Pearson Expands To Six Higher Education IT And Business Publishing Online User ...
Daily Markets
Media Logic, a nationally recognized agency specializing in marketing for a social world, is working with Pearson to rapidly expand the company's innovative managed community marketing program in its business publishing and IT group. In its first year, ...

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