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Apple And Amazon Break Up Mediocre-Selling eBooks Into Solid-Gold Singles
Fast Company
To draw an analogy to the music industry--going from albums (books) to singles (chapters) could makes great sense and lead to better business for some types of authors (artists) and publishers (labels). Who would benefit most? Lone Pine Publishing is ...
Daniel Sinker, The Man Behind @Mayor Emanuel, Is Tweeting A Story Exclusively ...
Huffington Post
Well, this is Huffington Post Books, so I wanted to write a short story about books, about their mythologies and about why we hold the stories inside them so dear. But I'm setting it far in the future, at the very end of days for the book. ...
Vanity Fair e-book tells 'The Art of Fielding' publishing story
USA Today
It's about 2000 words longer than Gessen's article, "The Book on Publishing," in the October issue of Vanity Fair. The novel itself is 528 pages, or more than 150000 words. Gessen, a college friend and colleague of Harbach's at n+1, a Brooklyn-based ...
Books-A-Million Closing Four Stores, But Buying More From Borders
paidContent.org
In its SEC filing (PDF), Books-A-Million attributed the declines in comparable store sales to “a weak bestseller publishing lineup compared to the prior year and the increasing transition of certain book categories to an electronic format. ...
ING DIRECT USA Kids Foundation and Books for Kids Bring Childhood Literacy and ...
PR Newswire (press release)
9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ING DIRECT USA Kids Foundation and Books for Kids, a national early childhood literacy non-profit, are partnering to enable children in San Francisco who may not have access to books or a public library to discover the magical ...
The Guardian announces nine new Guardian Shorts ebooks
The Guardian
This collection, including contributions from celebrated children's authors Michael Rosen, Meg Rosoff and David Fickling, gives clear and useful tips to prevent you ending up on the slush pile, from improving your opening pages, to the importance of ...
Woman arrested for stealing library books
UPI.com
9 (UPI) -- Oceanside, Calif., police have arrested a woman for stealing about 2000 library books. Police said Maria Natar, 44, was likely to resell the books she allegedly pilfered from Carlsbad and San Diego County libraries, CBS News reported Friday. ...
Elsevier Security Experts Offer Advice on National Infrastructure, Homeland ...
MarketWatch (press release)
From economics and public health to microbiology and genetics, we have a wide variety of books and ebooks online for you to choose from. Elsevier S&T Books provides seamless integration of its scientific and technological content through online ...
French Publishers Drop Lawsuits Against Google Book Scanning
PCWorld
The two companies did not mention whether they would consider selling paper versions of these oldbooks through Google's on-demand printing service. Putting out-of-print books back on sale via on-demand printing may seem like a good deal for authors, ...
Waterstone's to take on Kindle and Nook with own reader
Register
The advent of ebooks, and even selling actual books online, has given bricks-and-mortar bookshops the same headaches that iTunes gave high street CD-sellers, and while Waterstone's does sell ebooks and books on its website, it has had a hard time ...
Palo Alto Publishing Publishes "Countdown to 9/11" by Robert Schopmeyer
MarketWatch (press release)
9, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In a follow up to "Prior Knowledge of 9/11," first published in October 2006, Palo Alto Publishing is releasing "Countdown to the attacks on 9/11" the most detailed account to date on how and why the CIA and FBI HQ ...
9/11 books challenge us to relive fateful day
Chicago Sun-Times
The authors, New York Times journalists, conducted hundred of interviews from those who escaped the towers and gathered other accounts from witnesses, e-mails, phone messages and radio transcriptions. A new postscript begins and ends with the funeral ...
Photo: THE SUN PUBLISHING
Daily Sun
Tomorrow, the pains, agonies, and nostalgia of that brutish attack, the worst any nation ever experienced  in the hands of hateful agents of international terrorism would re-echo all over USA. Just like a flash, that brutish assault on the powerful ...
Kenya: MP Condemns Raid On Publishing Firm
AllAfrica.com
But the publisher has assured me that no amount of threats will stop him from publishing. There may be delays in the next issue which was expected later this month, but they'll continue to publish," said Mr Imanyara. The lawmaker said the publication, ...
Michael Miller From Que Publishing and Richard Rabins From Alpha Software to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NASHVILLE, TN, Sep 09, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Guests from Que Publishing and Alpha Software will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a ...
Where on earth does Rick Perry stand on his books' controversial views?
Washington Post (blog)
By Greg Sargent Does the Rick Perry campaign have any strategy at all to deal with the fact that controversial views that will seriously complicate his chances in a general election are right there in black and white, in books with his name on their ...
With music, movies, e-books, Amazon  well armed in tablet battle with Apple
TechFlash
JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz says Amazon's digital content, which covers music, movies andbooks will be a great asset for Amazon. The Seattle e-commerce giant also has its giant worldwide customer base, Moskowitz said in a note to investors ...
Books about 9/11 inform but shield young readers
Chicago Tribune
By Mary Harris Russell Special to Tribune Newspapers By Don Brown Don Brown moves through the events of 9/11 chronologically, with watercolor illustrations, not photographs, and a calm description of confusion, fear and bravery. ...
Do you read e-books to your kids?
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Given the soaring sales of the iPad, Kindle, Nook and book apps, is anyone still reading books made of paper to their kids? There are some obvious advantages to the e-book, iBook and app versions of books. Some are available for free download, ...
Library offers good stories, music, movies with a purpose
BlueRidgeNow.com
You can never have too many books or too many friends. Just ask the Henderson County Public Library. If you're looking to add more books to your home library or to give as gifts, the Friends of the Library's 31st annual book sale starts tomorrow. ...
Police: Woman's Home Had 2000 Stolen Library Books 'Everywhere ...
By Ian
Police say a Southland woman suspected of stealing thousands of public library books and DVDs was likely going to hold a book sale of her own.
CBS Los Angeles
1DollarScan digitizes your books, docs, and photos for only $1 ...
By Jennifer Bergen
Sep. 8, 2011 - Many of us have dozens of books that we lug around every time we move. Most of them we've already read, but there's something about hanging onto those.
Geek.com
Daniel Sinker (@MayorEmanuel) to Tweet for HuffPost Books ...
By Jason Boog
Daniel Sinker (@MayorEmanuel) to Tweet for HuffPost Books. ... The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry · Publishing · Deals · Bookselling · Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Trident Media Group is looking for a Foreign ...
GalleyCat
Graphic Books Best Sellers: True Life Comics - NYTimes.com
By By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
Last week, I lamented that Feynman, a biography about the physicist Richard P. Feynman published by First Second, had not yet appeared on the list. But now it has arrived – and it sits atop the hardcover graphic novels list. “Feynman” is an ...
ArtsBeat
Digital Publishing Suite to Support iOS 5 Newsstand « UK and ...
By mabear
Adobe news, resources and useful information for UK Education Partners.
UK and Ireland Channel News
September 11, 2001 and Its Impact on Publishing | Publishing ...
By Edward Nawotka
Publishing Perspectives editor Ed Nawotka shares his memories of September 11, 2001 and considers its impact on the publishing industry. ... People feared another plane was hijacked; some worried about one hitting the Empire State Building or the Rainbow Room, where Warner Books had planned a launch party for Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut. Word reached us that nearby St. Vincent's Hospital wanted volunteers to go and give blood, as they were expecting a wave of ...
Publishing Perspectives
Instapundit » Blog Archive » AT AMAZON, picks for Best Books Of ...
By Glenn Reynolds
VERONIQUE DE RUGY: OBAMA'S RECORD OF BROKEN JOBS PROMISES. Check out the thoroughly damning grap… September 9, 2011. AT AMAZON, picks for Best Books Of The Month. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 3:00 pm. Tweet ...
Instapundit
5 eBooks About 9/11 - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
eBooks About 9/11. ... 5. The River Panj: Different from the other books on this list, this eBook from author David Raterman is a novel that begins on September 11th, 2001, in Afghanistan ...Publishing Jobs. Featured Company. Life-Extension ...
eBookNewser
4 Must-Read Customer Community Books for Social Business Pros ...
By Joshua Paul
With all of the online reading that marketers and customer management professionals do, it is sometimes refreshing to read or listen to an entire book on a.
Business 2 Community
Juxtapoz Magazine - LED Books by Airan Kang | Current
At times, she stacked as many as 18 books into one sculpture, and for other components she recreated entire bookshelves. For the show, "Kang traveled around the world to visit and photograph different bookstores and famous libraries in ...
Juxtapoz Magazine
Banned Books??? | Liberty Hill Public Library
By local_admin
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, ...
Liberty Hill Public Library
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)
Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time ... He didn't beat the thing to death like so many other authors end up doing. ...
blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books
Search: Celebs' favorite books - Celebrities favorite books 2011 - 1
To honor National Read a Book Day, we take a look at the favorite books of famous people – from musicians and actors to business leaders and politicians. ...
specials.msn.com/.../Celebrities-favorite-books-2011.aspx?...
Amazon Best Sellers: Best Kindle Store
Buy A Kindle · Cloud Reader · Kindle eBooks · Kindle Singles · Newsstand · Popular Games · Accessories · Discussions · Manage Your Kindle · Kindle Support ...
www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digital-text

Project Gutenberg creator Michael S. Hart dies at 64
Washington Post
By Emily Langer, As it happens, Cervantes's classic tale of the man of La Mancha is one of the more than 36000 books in Project Gutenberg, a monumental free online library that Mr. Hart conceived of four decades ago, when the Internet was in its ...
A model, a Kennedy and a comedian bring new books to Naperville
Chicago Sun-Times
A limited number of children's tickets (for ages 10 and younger) are available for $5 each and include admission to the program, but no book Note: Tickets to all of the authors' visits are required and available while they last from Anderson's Bookshop ...

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