“Books Are Only Going To Get Better And Better"

Reading In Four Dimensions: “Books Are Only Going To Get Better And Better ...
Washington Post
In the video below, Andrew shares some of the key points from the essay – how print brings permanence to digital publishing, how the concept of “publishing” has translated online and the value of paper books in our increasingly digital world. ...
Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books
New York Times
“I was looking to books for more than just escape and pleasure,” said Ms. Sankovitch, an accomplished environmental lawyer who gradually gave up practicing after she had children. Now she was seeking answers about “how to live with sorrow and how to ...
Net pirates turn over a new leaf
Sydney Morning Herald
The newer breed of net-savvy, entrepreneurial, do-it-yourself authors want global reach, believing cheap ebooks will bring readers and even bigger markets. ''Nothing drives me more crazy than hearing from someone who wants to buy my books but can't .
Paging all authors
The Australian
The failure of the country's largest book retailer has not only focused debate on the viability of brick and mortar bookshops, it raises the question: in an era of online retailing and e-reading, what is the future of publishing and print books...
1DollarScan Scans And Digitizes Your Books For You “For A Dollar”
Washington Post
And now a new company called 1DollarScan tries to do the same for books, documents, pictures and just about anything that's printed on paper – through pricing. 1DollarScan is the US equivalent of a service in Japan called Bookscan, which is the largest ...
Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks
The Guardian
Literary festivals give readers the opportunity to see their favourite authors – but they're also a chance for authors to meet their heroes too. The stars of the show reveal their top tickets The Edinburgh international book festival features almost ...
Beyond books: Libraries offer bargains, too
Washington Post
From DVDs and e-books to language courses and yoga classes, the neighborhood public library is one of the best deals around. We asked area librarians to recommend the top services their institutions have to offer. The best part? They're all free. ...
Spies to Brides: Fall Fashion Books
New York Times (blog)
It's a huge season for fashion books — huge, as Diana Vreeland would have insisted, herself the subject of a new work. In fact, I am most curious about “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel” (Abrams), by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who is married to a ...
Books: A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin
Long Island Press
Martin's publishing pace has been sporadic at best, and has only slowed as he's gotten older. The original A Game of Thrones was published in 1996, and its two follow-ups, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords, were published in 1998 and 2000, ...
When books can be deceiving
Sydney Morning Herald
Nor is it one of the seven Harry Potter books or a title from the Twilight saga. Apart from George R. Martin's historical fantasy A Game of Thrones, fiction isn't among the top 100 ebooks downloaded by users of the Swedish site. ...
Books, beach, bliss
Sydney Morning Herald
Choosing the books to take on holiday is a serious business, one that gives me pleasure and angst in equal measure. I spend more time agonising over my reading material than on choosing the destination itself. Then, having crammed the entire Booker ..
Used books get new chapter
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Photos by Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette LANCASTER -- It's not difficult to find an interesting read at the Paperback Exchange -- the used-book store boasts an inventory of about 20000 books. The store at 109 N. Columbus St. features virtually all genres ...
Movellas Is Like YouTube For Ebooks
Mashable
Figment, Protagonize, WeBook and WritersCafe are a handful of the websites that have created a similar publishing platform. Movellas stands out with its mobile ebook format and its focus on adolescents. Depending on how you look at it, the site could ...
Lodi library looks into offering e-books
Lodi News-Sentinel
"When people think of e-books with all the hype, they think of reading bestsellers, but you can't get them," Martinez said. Also, most of the e-book vendors that sell to libraries sign contracts individually with authors. So if an author hasn't signed ...
Wine books have insights into industry
San Francisco Chronicle
That's good: A new crop of wine books comes with surprising intellectual edge, as though pleas to end the string of thumb-sucking memoirs and rote recommendations finally have been heard. It has been a while since a grand book on California wine ...
Downtown bookstore, events spot nears end
Winnipeg Free Press
Aqua Books and Eat! bistro owner Kelly Hughes says his used-book, restaurant and performance centre isn't paying for itself and he'll have to close. The owner of a downtown used-book store, restaurant and gathering spot says he'll close the business in .
School librarians help piece Joplin books together
The Marshall Democrat-News
By SARAH REED/Staff Writer Beth Chase, Betsy Lewis, Debbie Hollrah, Katie Berger and Rebecca Cramer take a brief break from sorting library books in Joplin Friday, Aug. 5. They feel schools are a vital part of a community, and libraries are integral to ..
Books for young readers: Museum of Thieves, by Lian Tanner
Guelph Mercury
By Susan Fish Museum of Thieves, by Lian Tanner (Random House Books, 312 pages, $19.99 hardcover, $8.99 softcover) — When my children were small, I read chapters of great books aloud to them each night. We slowly made our way through classic works and ...
Knight Center's e-books reach thousands of journalists in the Americas: 200000 ...
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
E-books published by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas in English, Spanish and Portuguese have already been downloaded nearly 200000 times, read and shared by thousands of journalists, journalism students and professors all over the ...
Read ebooks in your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader
OnSoftware
The Kindle Cloud Reader's interface is otherwise left uncluttered, save for a small button that allows you to purchase books directly from Amazon and a few others that allow you to navigate away from the book you're currently reading. ...
Reading In Four Dimensions: “Books Are Only Going To Get Better ...
By Paul Carr
In the video below, Andrew shares some of the key points from the essay – how print brings permanence to digital publishing, how the concept of “publishing” has translated online and the value of paper books in our increasingly digital ...
TechCrunch
Publishing News: Amazon launched the HTML5 Kindle Cloud Reader - O ...
By Jenn Webb
In the latest edition of publishing news, the Kindle Cloud Reader's HTML5 platform offers a new level of content ubiquity, BookStats latest survey shows optimistic results for publishers, and a Seattle law firm alleges Apple and five US publishers ... and "forced Amazon to abandon its discount pricing and adhere to a new agency model in which publishers set prices and extinguished competition so that retailers such as Amazon could no longer offer lower prices for e-books...
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Adam Morganstern: 8 Great Organic Wine Books For Summer
By Adam Morganstern
Organic, Biodynamic and natural wines are making the jump from the wine list to the book shelf. A great new crop of books have just been released by people passionate about both the quality of their wines and the methods behind how ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Graphic Books Best Sellers: Manga Mania - NYTimes.com
By By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
The manga list is filled with change this week as eight titles make their first appearance on the list.
ArtsBeat
Amazon finally cracking down on spam books | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
Well, just in case you forgot, spammers have re-publishing books (both out of copyright and those still under copyright) as their own titles; indirectly stealing money from many self-published authors who have worked hard to write them ...
Ubergizmo
Tips for promoting sales of your eBooks, and other digital content
I also think it's a good idea to "beta test" new products, including eBooks, with selected readers before introducing them to the public. Your readers can provide fresh perspectives that alert you to issues you might have missed before launch. ... They are especially helpful if you're truly publishingon your own, and haven't otherwise had another set of eyeballs on your copy before you publish. Your current readers are your viral agents, too. You need them telling their ...
OJR
Rise of E-books Will Benefit One Group: Readers < PopMatters
By Glenn Garvin - McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
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 ...
PopMatters
How To Price Comparison Shop For eBooks - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
Want to get the best price on digital books? Inkmesh.com can help. The site aggregates the eBooksby store, price, format and device. For example, if you search for Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you can see that the ...
eBookNewser
Xlibris Publishing introduces their latest publishing services ...
By admin
Xlibris Publishing introduces their latest publishing services that do not just self publishes books but also turn them into audio books. Bloomington, IN, December, 15, 2010 – Xlibris Publishing, a just for One particular self publishing industry, ... Authors will Provide These adventure a voice That includes Xlibris' Audio Book Publishing opportunities And simply The availability of Show crowd Will also experience Their precious background Just for the Extremely time. ...
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Why I won't throw away my books any soon – In2EastAfrica – All ...
By In2EastAfrica
First you can travel with as many books as you like (up to 4000 books), without taking up any luggage space. Second e readers are environmental friendly-no trees cut, no ink wasted, and no cost of publishing. I'm not so sure that books ...
In2EastAfrica - All East African...
More SilverlightShow ebooks in MOBI and EPUB format
By editorial@silverlightshow.net (Silverlight Show )
In an effort to provide mobile reader versions (MOBI and EPUB) for all ebooks on our ebook shelf, we have today released updated ebook packages for 7 more ebooks (see the ebooks updated earlier this week). The new ebooks which have MOBI ...
SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community
Knight Center's e-books reach thousands of journalists in the ...
By Knight Center
E-books published by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas in English, Spanish and Portuguese have already been downloaded nearly 200000 times, read and shared by thousands of journalists, journalism students and professors ...
JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS Blog

Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR
You'll notice there are no young adult or horror books on this list, ... A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of ..... We may edit them for clarity or brevity and identify authorsby name and location. ...
www.npr.org/.../your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-b...


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