| Borders' Liquidation Sales an Unexpected Boon for Authors Huffington Post But because Borders is liquidating all of their stock by selling the books they have on hand at deep discounts, none of these books are being returned. I and other authors are actually selling more copies of our books than we would have if Borders had ... | ||
| I Read My 5-Year-Old Banned Books & You Should, Too Huffington Post (blog) It's pure coincidence that I taught Nadine Gordimer's luminous, difficult Burger's Daughter during Banned Books Week this year. Banned in South Africa immediately upon its 1979 publication in the UK, Gordimer's novel is a fictional portrait of the ... | ||
| Rin Tin Tin The Life And The Legend NPR His father and grandfather had already been celebrated around the world in silent films, talkies, radio, vaudeville, comics, and books; this new Rin Tin Tin, Lee insisted, was ready to conquer television, "the coming medium," as he described it. ... | ||
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| BOOKS: Q&A: From hardboiled newsman to chronicler of friendship Taunton Daily Gazette By Rosemary Herbert A crowd of Newburyport denizens gathered Jabberwocky Bookshop recently when Tom Ryan returns to Clipper City as the author of the highly-touted new memoir/travelogue/inspirational volume, ... | ||
| MindTouch Launches Social Publishing and Behavior Analytics for Top Desktop ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) In just a few clicks, content authors can publish to MindTouch from their existing tools. Hierarchies, cross-link references, image and page formats are maintained. Content is automatically and dynamically organized by tags and the site hierarchy. ... | ||
| Palos Verdes Libraries Lend Kindle Books Patch.com Residents now can borrow library books on a Kindle as the Palos Verdes Library District has joined a new Amazon program. By Vickey Kalambakal Palos Verdes residents now can take their Kindles to the library and choose between books to read on the ... | ||
| New Books Uncovers The Alleged Dark Side Of Walter Payton The Smoking Section Sweetness hits stands everywhere books are sold October 4 and is the subject and cover of the new Sports Illustrated set to be released the day prior. Like I said before, my opinion of Payton the NFL icon will never change. The gaudy numbers – 21264 ... | ||
| Q& A -- Former Beacon reporter publishes novel MetroWest Daily News It sold quickly to two publishing houses -- Simon & Schuster is the US publisher, and Random House bought the rights to distribute the English language version worldwide -- and both houses have bought the next two books in the series as well. ... | ||
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| The nation's first cloud platform for e-books launched Taipei Times The cloud platform enables access to new literary collections, allowing people to read wherever they go, share comments, interpretations and discussions through social Web sites, and edit typos of thebooks online, Taiwan Digital Publishing Forum ... | ||
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| The library is more than lots of books Adobe Press By Susan Galluzzo Books, videos, DVDs, magazines, audio books on CD: The list goes on and on, yet the surprises never end when you visit the Nipomo Library. Our local branch has rich offerings of computer databases available, both in the library itself ... | ||
| Mark Bittman Brings Cooking Back and Pushes Publishing Forward Huffington Post (blog) The book's publisher, Byliner Originals, recruits well-known authors to write e-books that can be read in a single sitting. The format is popularizing, if not altogether creating, a new niche in mid-length nonfiction, sandwiched between magazine ... | ||
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| Kenya: Price of Books Could Rise By 50 Percent AllAfrica.com Exercise books and other indispensable tools used alongside textbooks may also have to pay VAT. According to Kenya Publishers Association,Executive Officer,James Odhiambo this will be a major blow to the education sector and will stifle the publishing ... | ||
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| Kohl's Shares the Love This Holiday Season with Whimsical and Imaginative ... MarketWatch (press release) Readers of all ages will get swept away in the loving words and imaginative illustrations of these storybooks and will feel good knowing Kohl's donates 100 percent of the net profit to children's health and education initiatives in communities ... | ||
| Handy Flowchart for Choosing Among NPR's Top 100 Science ... By Charlie Jane Anders Now that we officially know the 100 greatest science fiction and fantasy books, according to NPR's fine readers, there's some great reading material waiting for all of us. But which of these great booksis best for you? It's a dazzling amount of ... io9 | ||
| 12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S. By Miss Cellania It might have been easier to write up a “books that have never been banned anywhere” list. The banning of ... O.K., let's take a look at a brief (in the scheme of these things) list of books that have been (ironically) banned here in the U.S…. 1. ... Neatorama | ||
| From Commentary to Conversation: The ... - Publishing Perspectives By Guest Contributor Social reading seems like a counterintuitive idea, but it enriches both reading and publishing, argues Anobii CEO Matteo Berlucchi. ... The key benefits of e-books compared to paper books (p-books) are primarily linked to the form factor: faster to get the book you want, no weight to carry around on planes, font scaling etc. All the other features are arguably the same: bookmarks, ... Reading, Personal History. › Previewing PubLaunch's “eBooks Around the World” Frankfurt Confab ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
| Create and publish your own books with Book Creator for iPad | TiPb By Leanna Lofte Kids love writing their own little books, and doing so with Book Creator will likely make kid authors feel extra proud of their books when they are able to show them off in iBooks on an iPad. The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, ... TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and... | ||
| Haymarket books to celebrate 10th anniversary By Philip Weiss Brooklyn, NY Haymarket Books is ushering in its tenth year of independent publishing with an evening of drinks, music, and politics at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on Friday, September 30. Come see authors Dave Zirin, Chris Lehmann, ... Mondoweiss | ||
| Houston's Clear Thinkers: Markets in Self-Publishing By Tom K. One of the most interesting emerging markets that I've been following recently has been in self-publishing. UCLA business law professor and longtime blogger Stephen Bainbridge - who, along with Larry Ribstein, is a blogosphere leader in ... Houston's Clear Thinkers | ||
| 4 Books Every Career Woman Should Own « Clutch Magazine By Danielle Pointdujour With these four books in your arsenal you'll be well on your way to making all your career dreams come true. Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers – Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D ... Clutch Magazine | ||
| Banned Books Week - Las Cruces Sun-News By By Norm Dettlaff/ Sun-News Reference Librarian Carmella Lee adjusts the "jail" of banned books Wednesday at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library. News | ||
| Search all your cookbooks with Eat Your Books « Baking Bites By Nicole For instance, if I want a recipe for pork chops with apples for a fall dinner, it may take me a while of hit-and-miss searching through books that I think might have such a recipe. This whole process is streamlined with a little help from Eat Your ... Baking Bites | ||
| New Top Challenged Books – Stephen's Lighthouse By admin As readers around the country celebrate Banned Books Week, The Huffington Post has created a massive infographic with excerpts from the top ten of the 348 books that were threatened in school libraries or curriculum last year.” Top Ten ... Stephen's Lighthouse | ||
| Top 10 banned books all college students should read « - College ... While many of us connect censorship with TV and the radio, books are also victims of challenges and bans in libraries and schools around the country. In honor of Banned Books Week, the First Amendment and individual thought, I've ... College Media Network |
“Free” eBooks for Kindle Arrive at the Library! Santa Barbara Independent Library patrons with a Kindle, the portable eReader from Amazon.com, may now download eBooksfor FREE from the Santa Barbara Public Library System's website. Until now, the library's catalog of over 3500 eBooks has been available for free download to ... | ||
| Bloomsbury venture to bring books 'back from dead' IBNLive.com London: Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter books in Britain, launched its first purely digital imprint on Wednesday which it said would bring out-of-print titles "back from the dead". Bloomsbury Reader has signed up a string of authors ... | ||
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| Wyandotte Library Supports the Reading of Banned Books Patch.com In honor of Banned Books Week, the National Library Association has released a list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2010. By Jason Alley Public libraries across the country, including here in Wyandotte, are encouraging people to peak into some ... |
