Bloomsbury venture to bring books "back from dead"

Bloomsbury venture to bring books "back from dead"
Reuters
British writer JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, poses during the launch of new online website Pottermore in London June 23, 2011. By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter booksin ...
Banned Books Week: Join the virtual Read-Out protest on YouTube
Christian Science Monitor
The American Library Association urges users to read from banned or challenged books on YouTube. By Molly Driscoll / September 28, 2011 Users can upload a YouTube video of themselves reading from a banned or challenged book. During Banned Books Week, ...
MB Library Now Lends Kindle Books
Patch.com
Scroll down to “EBooks” and pick a fiction or nonfiction category. The list of books you see will tell you if copies are available, and even how many people are on the waiting list. A search box is at the top. Once you find an available book you want, ...
Anthony Bourdain has no reservations about publishing gig
Kansas City Star
To me, there are certain books and authors that I feel evangelical about. And there have been in the past a number of authors, not just chefs but also authors, who I have really believed in and I have hectored my agent into taking on, or pestered Dan ...
Sarah Palin May Have a Hard Time Proving Defamation
ABC News (blog)
Schmidt added that as one of the biggest publishing houses in the country, Random House “doesn't publish books like these carelessly,” but the “author is responsible for the content he put in it.” This isn't Palin's first legal scuffle in the ...
Que Publishing Offers Enhanced eBooks through Apple's iBookstore
MarketWatch (press release)
INDIANAPOLIS, Sep 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Que Publishing announced today that it is now offering enhanced eBooks from its USING series through Apple's iBookstore. Designed for beginner-level home and office computer users, USING eBooks include up ...
MIPJunior Launches Books-to-TV Exchange
Sacramento Bee
LBF is part of the Reed Exhibitions Books and Publishing Group. Reed Exhibitions is the parent company of MIP Junior organiser Reed MIDEM. "The London Book Fair is very happy to be involved in this project," notes Alistair Burtenshaw, Group Exhibition ...
Russian Orthodox Church slams 2 acclaimed authors
CBS News
Father Vsevolod Chaplin's demand that Russia's government investigate and limit the use of the books was his church's latest attempt to impose religious norms in a country that once rejected religion altogether. Chaplin, who heads the Moscow ...
Authors with BC connections dominate Writers' Trust shortlist
Vancouver Sun (blog)
Two other authors with roots in BC are also shortlisted: Michael Christie was nominated for his short story collection The Beggar's Garden, while Patrick deWitt's novel The Sisters Brothers was also named. DeWitt is from BC, but now lives in Oregon. ...
Banned Books Week 2011: Surprising List of Controversial Reads
International Business Times
By IB Times Staff Reporter | September 27, 2011 8:06 PM EDT Banned Books Week highlights one of the most fundamental rights for book lovers everywhere: the freedom to read whatever they want. The motto for the 2011 Banned Books Week is "Think for...
At long last, Kindle owners can get eBooks from library
Mukilteo Beacon
“It will be interesting to watch the growth in circulation as our customers find out that we have Kindlebooks.” Kindle users can browse Sno-Isle Libraries' collection of bestselling and classic eBooksfrom a PC or Mac computer, check out titles using ...
Disney Publishing Worldwide Debuts New Disney Princess Mobile App in Honor of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Headquartered in White Plains, NY, Disney Publishing Worldwide publishes books, magazines, and digital products in 85 countries in 75 languages. For more information visitwww.disneypublishing.com .
Library hosts book sale
Half Moon Bay Review
The Friends of the Half Moon Bay Library are still accepting donations of books for their third annual book sale, set for Oct. 1. Typically the sale had been held on the same weekend as the Citywide Garage Sale, but this year the Friends decided to ...
Putin Comments on Timchenko and Books
The Moscow Times
He said a special government commission is tasked with "finding the most efficient legal solutions that would issue guarantees to authors" so that "the digital book market can develop in a civilized and legal way." When faced with a comment from one ...
The Jewish High Holy Days: Extraordinary Time, Dearth of New Books for Kids
Publishers Weekly
“Our editorial staff has been working with some wonderful authors to build up our list of Judaica. We make lots of suggestions to our authors; however, in the end, we need to follow the leads of our creative talent and their inspirations. ...
Books-A-Million closes Hamilton Place site, says others unaffected
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Books-A-Million managers in Chattanooga declined to discuss the closings. But company CEO Clyde Anderson blamed the company's sales decline on "a soft publishing lineup, the effect of e-book migration and the impact of Border's liquidation. ...
Risky reads! 5 books that have been banned
msnbc.com
What banned book do you think is worth reading? Are there any books you'd ban from your home? New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Worick has published more than 25 books. Also a publishing consultant, she can be found at The Business ofBooks.
How to get your kid to be a fanatic reader
CNN
ReadKiddoRead.com, a site dedicated to helping parents find books that will get their kids reading. (CNN) -- You're reading CNN.com, so maybe this isn't a stress-inducing worry in your house, but for too many kids in this country, reading is a dirty ...
7 Graphic Design Books for Kids
The Atlantic
The First Book of Jazz, which you might recall as one of our favorite children's books by famous authors of literature for grown-ups, became the first-ever children's book to review American music, and to this day arguably the best. ...
Getting clubby with books
Edmonton Journal
Sandra Leclair, a library staffer who hosts the Monday afternoon and Tuesday night book clubs at Idyl wylde, says she tries to choose a cross-section of books for the clubs, both fiction and non-fiction - "whatever I can grab ahold of and think might ...
"When the gods go Astray" by Curtis Hatch Now Available for Kindle
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
EBooks are a rapidly growing market. According to the New York Times, "Since April 1, Amazon sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books, including books without Kindle versions and excluding free e-books...
Amazon Tops 1 Million Kindle Books In Just Four Years | TechCrunch
By Jordan Crook
Amazon Tops 1 Million Kindle Books In Just Four Years. Jordan Crook. posted 6 hours ago. Comments. View Author Page. Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining ...
TechCrunch
Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at Microsoft SharePoint ...
By KimSpilker
Our blog offers book info, links to ebooks, & other good stuff. ... Event: Meet Microsoft Press authorsat Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. Books & ebooks about Microsoft applications, certifications, tools, technologies, & research. .... Todd Bleeker - Advanced Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 IT Professionals; Robert Bogue - Customizing Content Publishing Approval Workflows; Andrew Connell - Deep Dive on SharePoint Ribbon Development & Extensibility; Steve Fox ...
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Digital Publishing – “If You Want to Change the Culture, Create the ...
By Michael Mandaville (Profile)
The 26 year old was tired of the Old World publishing house runaround. She self-published her young adult paranormal books on Smashwords. Her nine titles sold 164000 ebooks in 2010 alone. To date, she's sold several million copies, ...
RedState
GoErie.com Blogs: Loaves & Dishes - Books for cooks
By Jennie Geisler
Books for cooks. Before I get to the books, let me try to clear something up: There will not be a shortage of canned pumpkin this year. The crop is good in Illinois, where 90 percent of canned pumpkin is grown. It's the Halloween pumpkins in the ...
Loaves & Dishes
Some recent recommended science books | Open Parachute
By Ken
It's the latest annual short list selected by the UK Royal Society for the Winton Prize for ScienceBooks. I think they all look interesting. I have already purchased two of these (The Disappearing Spoon and Massive) and will keep an eye out for ...
Open Parachute
“What kind of investment books do you recommend?” Early ...
By Jacob
Many investment books, especially the non-technical ones, contains a strategy that can be summarized on one page while the rest of the book is an attempt at justifying why this strategy works along with some anecdotes on how the strategy ...
Early Retirement Extreme
Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » Free Books! Another ...
By Columbia University Press
We want to give more books away. There are a limited number of boxes so you must act now. Please email your name and mailing address to cup.publicityintern@gmail.com and you will enter to win a free box of books from Columbia ...
Columbia University Press
IVR Deconstructed » Amazon in E-Publishing
By charlie
Amazon in E-Publishing. September 27, 2011. Despite the smartphone and job in the tech industry, I still enjoy paper magazines and books. I stare at a computer enough at work. I'd rather hold a book in my hand instead of a tablet on my bus ...
IVR Deconstructed
Banned Books Week, Sing Out | The Hub
By Mia Cabana
In honor of Banned Books Week I drew a little cartoon inspired by the Banned Books Week Virtual Read Out, imagining what it would be like if some of our favorite frequently-challenged authors got together to form a band and sing out about it! ...
The Hub

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Michael Lewis possesses the rare storyteller’s ability to make virtually any subject both lucid and compelling. In his new book, “Boomerang,” he actually makes topics like European sovereign debt, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank not only comprehensible but also fascinating . . . 

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