| E-Book Author Signs Print Deal With Simon & Schuster New York Times (blog) By JULIE BOSMAN John Locke, the first self-published author to sell one million e-books on Amazon.com, has made a deal with Simon & Schuster for the sales and distribution of his printbooks. Mr. Locke said he wanted to allow readers “traditional ... | ||
| Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis including English copy of ... Washington Post By AP, BERLIN — Berlin's Central and Regional Library says it will return books the Nazis stole from the Social Democratic Party, including an English-language copy of the Communist Manifesto. The copy dates from 1883 and is believed to have belonged ... | ||
| Dear Book Lover: Where to Find Free Online Books Wall Street Journal (blog) I get lists of the books, but so few are ever reviewed, which is a shame, for good books are lost in the daily tsunami of free books. I would like to discover new authors and/or books that are not the "classics." I knew there were a lot of free books ... | ||
| Tor/Forge Books and NASA Jointly Announce Publishing Collaboration PR Newswire (press release) Forge includes books by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Douglas Preston, Eric Van Lustbader, W. Bruce Cameron and Former Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen. Together, the imprints garnered 20 New York Times bestsellers in 2010. | ||
| ebrary Signs its 120th University Press Publishing Partner Virtual-Strategy Magazine ebrary ®, a leading provider of e-books and research technology, today announced new publishingpartners University of Arizona Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Wayne State University ... | ||
| Warning as children shun books in favour of Facebook Telegraph.co.uk One in six children are failing to read books as they spend an increasing amount of time texting friends, sending emails and searching Facebook and Twitter, research suggests. Children who fail to read at a young age risk turning into illiterate adults ... | ||
| Books, sites, apps help kids learn money skills Belleville News Democrat BOOKS: Even a cursory review of The Berenstain Bears books by Jan and Stan Berenstain will uncover numerous titles that teach money lessons to young children. Books such as the "Trouble with Money" and "Dollars and Sense" are among the favorites of ... | ||
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| National groups call on Republic school board to reconsider removal of books Springfield News-Leader Barry Lynn, executive director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Calling the removal of two books “educationally unsound and constitutionally suspect,” officials from nine national groups are urging the Republic school board to ... | ||
| Purchase Featured Books NPR Its hard drive was filled with old books, movies, TV show episodes, song files, and nearly every videogame made in the twentieth century. I booted up my emulator and selected Robotron: 2084, one of my all-time favorite games. ... | ||
| Obama's Summer Reading New Yorker (blog) Obama is reported to have bought two of the books on the list, “Rodin's Debutante” and “The Bayou Trilogy” at the Bunch of Grapes book shop on Martha's Vineyard. Bucolic summer haunts are surely not immune from economic competition, and perhaps no ... | ||
| Volunteers Sort Mountains of Donated Books For Sale Patch.com The excitement stems from the sale of more than 1000 boxes of donated books which volunteers have painstakingly sorted, priced and categorized. It is a bargain hunter's paradise, with books divided into 30 categories and generally selling for between ... | ||
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| Sgt. Maj. to Marines: Read these books Marine Corps Times He said he reads frequently and gives Marines copies of books he has enjoyed while traveling. “Yeah, I've got my coin, and there's a time and place for giving coins,” he said. “But, do you know what I'd rather give a Marine? Something they can actually ... | ||
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| On the Books Aug. 22: New Decemberists video's literary roots, Obama's summer ... Entertainment Weekly (blog) ++ Self-published author John Locke, not to be confused with the 17th century philosopher or a Smoke Monster, has entered an exclusive deal with Simon & Schuster to handle the distribution of physical copies of his books. Locke's Donovan Creed novels, ... | ||
| Retired Appleton teachers Peter and Connie Roop find joy in children's books Appleton Post Crescent Yes, Connie and her husband, Peter Roop, both 60, are living authors. Their latest book, “Down East in the Ocean,” a counting book released in May, joins the authors' list of more than 100 children's titles. It also features a place the couple knows ... | ||
| Economic Lessons in Children's Literature New York Times (blog) You can look up books that teach subjects as diverse as incentives and opportunity cost, or savings and scarcity. And contrary to the notion that children's authors don't understand the market economy, the site offers five books on markets and ... | ||
| Start Up Creates Community for Teenage Authors Wall Street Journal (blog) It has more than 75000 visitors a month, and about 5000 authors who upload more than 100 stories a day. “We have an ebook store which features all the Danish published ebooks, but our users are not interested in that. They like the idea there is a live ... | ||
| Children's Corner: Fine new picture books to help kids turn the page on summer Evansville Courier & Press As she did in three previous books, Ljungkvist invites young readers to follow a black line from page to page; in this book, as readers follow the line, they discover the various facets of school life, from the music and art rooms, to the math corner, ... | ||
| Authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Bring the Laughs at Mission Viejo Book ... Patch.com Allyson said she has read all of the Starcatchers series and that it was 'really cool' to meet theauthors. "I was at Mission Viejo library and I saw a poster (for this event) and I was like 'I have to go to this." Which one of the four books is her ... | ||
| Classics Illustrated Sold MarketWatch (press release) First Publishing evolved into First Classics, Inc., and oversaw the publication by Acclaim Books of 62 digest-size CI study guides in 1997-1998. In 2002, First Classics, Inc. and Jack Lake Productions, Inc., of Toronto, Canada, reached an agreement ... | ||
| Convert Your Books to Kindle Prfire (press release) The Kindle allows users to access a large number of books from one place as well as buy them at a better price than their physical siblings. In turn, the amount of authors and publishers that want to convert books to Kindle format, has skyrocketed and ... | ||
| "Ban Rape/Not Books" Protest Planned at Republic School Board Meeting KSPR Republic, MO — "Ban Rape/Not Books." It's a battle cry for many grassroots groups organizing on Facebook after the high profile problems the Republic R-III School District is facing. The district is in the midst of a sexual abuse scandal involving a ... | ||
| Library thieves owe Houston taxpayers millions Houston Chronicle By YANG WANG, HOUSTON CHRONICLE One look at the Houston Public Library's delinquency records is enough to both buoy and sink the hearts of book-lovers: Borrowers seem to like the printed word so much that they've failed to return 243102 books since ... | ||
| How open source is transforming the publishing industry | TechRepublic By Jack Wallen Find out how Linux and other open source software titles are empowering independent authors and filling an important niche in the publishing industry. Many of you already know I am not only a writer of a technical nature, but a writer of ... I have been working hard to produce a catalog of ebooks and paperbacks for the last three years. During that time I have discovered something that seems to be slipping through the cracks of the majority of computer-type pundits — open ... Linux and Open Source Blog |... |
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