Books as Art

Books on display as art, not reading material
Towerlight
“The Book: A Contemporary View,” located in the Center for the Arts, is an exhibition celebrating books through art, featuring the work of more than forty nationally known artists. “There are artists from Taiwan, Cuba and Japan as well as Greece and ...
Books, arts tango in group of exhibits around town
The Tennessean
credit: Nettie Hale Rand Collect;Vanderbilt Unive There's a happy coincidence among this season's art exhibitions — a focus on works that incorporate books or text, or on books that are themselves works of art. Here's an overview of what's out there. ...

Young authors bask in spotlight at Copperfield's
Napa Valley Register
Jorgen Gulliksen/Register The Napa Valley Writing Project assisted third through fifth graders in writing and publishing their own books. On Saturday, as parents and total strangers sat quietly at Copperfield's Books at Bel Aire Plaza, ...
Local authors craft tales of aliens, Irish, murders
Florida Today
Both books are available as ebooks at amazon.com. Barefoot Bay resident Ed Davidson has written "Uncle Ed Said" ($12.95, American Perspective Ltd.). In it, Uncle Ed remembers tales of immigrants struggling to make a life in Ontonagon, Mich., ...
Books Q&A: Jesmyn Ward
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Jesmyn Ward grew up in the Mississippi town of DeLisle and earned her master's from the University of Michigan. She was the 2010-11 Grisham writer-in-residence at Ole Miss. She is now an associate professor of creative writing at the University of ...
Authors And Illustrators Set For Celebrate Children's Book Day, 9/25
Broadway World
The full schedule of authors appears on www.hudsonvalley.org. Books by all of the attending writers and illustrators will be available for purchase and signing. Food from Irvington-based Geordane's will be available for picnickers. ...
Deadwood's population should nearly double during the Festival of Books ...
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Reviewers of the book have agreed, saying Marshall's book is much warmer and filled with details missing from many other authors' books about Crazy Horse. Marshall's first language was Lakota. He said he enjoys traveling and talking about his work, ...
Kansas books touted at festival
Topeka Capital Journal
On the lawn several tents were set up for authors to meet with people and sign books as well as a tent with children activities based on famous Kansans. “I think this is a fantastic event,” said Director of the Wamego Public Library, Leah Kulikowski. ...
Clues To Amazon's “Prime eBooks” Loan Program Found In Kindle ...
By John Biggs
Sadly, there was no evidence of the Kindle Tablet in the code. However, we did confirm that these loans will exist as an Amazon “Prime” subscription service, suggesting a Netflix-like method for downloading many books for a set price. ...
TechCrunch
Happy banned books week! - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
Banned Books week begins today, runs through October 30, and includes everything from challenged children's books to banned erotica. ... Jacket Copy. Booksauthors and all things bookish. « Previous | Jacket Copy Home ...
Jacket Copy
Banned Books Week - Blog - Murderati
By Murderati
Authored by 14 of today's leading mystery and crime writers, MURDERATI examines critical themes, historical archetypes and trends in publishing, marketing and the life of the published author. ... TheAuthors. MONDAY. A Ready Rebel. bLAWg and ORDER. TUESDAY. And Furthermore... Whispers From The CaveWEDNESDAY. Write From Wrong. Character AssassinationTHURSDAY. Changing Feet The AussieFRIDAY. Comma Sutra. Off-Beat. SATURDAY. Ghost Writer WASP Noir ...
Murderati
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #12 — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
... posted at Anthony F. Rando, saying, “Questions to ask when creating a book cover.” Gary McLaren presents Top Twitter Hashtags for Ebook Publishers posted at Publish Your Own Ebooks.... Marketing and selling your books. Lindsay Buroker presents Authors, Why You Should Start a Newsletter posted at Ebook Endeavors, saying, “Start a newsletter, and keep your fans from forgetting about you (and sell more books too!).” Gordon Burgett presents What do you write your early ...
The Book Designer
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to support iOS 5 Newsstand | Adobe ...
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that publishers will be able to use Adobe Digital PublishingSuite to create magazine and newspaper applications that appear in the Apple Newsstand section of... ... Any opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information expressed in this section of the AMEinfo.com Web site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited. AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited is not responsible or liable for ...
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Publishing Quartet Share Advice | The Gatekeepers Post
By GATEKEEPERS POST STAFF
What can publishers and authors do to promote and market their books? The concept of publishing to subcategories is as old as publishing itself. However, the economic and other efficiencies of the new technologies is allowing us new ...
The Gatekeepers Post
19 Best Free E-books To Enhance Blogging
By Mike Brenson
EBooks are nothing but the digital format of textbooks. The good thing is that the eBooks have the same text and content as the books. I prefer eBooks to books sometimes because they give me the flexibility to be able to read anywhere. Books ...
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Weekly Freebies: Rosh Hashanah Books | Hirhurim – Torah Musings
By Hirhurim
In preparation for the upcoming holiday, here are some relevant free books available on HebrewBooks.org: Gevuras Yitzchak on Elul, Rosh Hashanah and Yom K...
Hirhurim - Torah Musings
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net
By Seth Fischer
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement. Seth Fischer bio ↓ · September 25th, 2011 · filed under Homepage Feature, books. It was one hell of a week at Rumpus Books. Come see what we published last week. Cool Reconnaissance Of The ...
The Rumpus.net
Reading – and keeping – books in the digital age
By LLG
There were over 2000 books in the London flat before I sold it last summer. They got hauled to my father's garage where they were stashed them for safe keeping until I decided where I would live long-term. (Last August I intended that to be ...
Liberty London Girl
Kindle & Epub Library Ebooks – Where to Find Them - The Digital ...
By Nate Hoffelder
Kindle Ebooks Now Live at All Participating Libraries – Including Mine ... Don't have OverDriveebooks at your local library? ... Sadly not all libraries are OverDrive partners, so I've put together this little list to help you find library ebooks. ... Blog Roll, An American Editor, BeWrite Books, BookSprung, Direct eBooks, Dulin's Books, Ebookanoid, Evil Wylie, Joe Wikert's iPad Hound Blog, Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog, John Miedema, KindleWorld, Mike Cane, Oz-E-Books, Password...
The Digital Reader
Readers and Authors Flocking To The Baltimore Book Festival ...
By sbhagav
The festival offers author meet-and-greets, readings and workshops. And for the kids, storytellers and hands-on projects.
CBS Baltimore
The 2011 Guardian and Observer books power 100 – interactive ...
The people exercising the greatest influence over the UK's reading habits - right now.
www.guardian.co.uk/books/.../books-power-100-interactive

How to Check Out a Public Library eBook and Read it on the iPad
YouTube
Over 11000 public libraries are now lending out ebooks through their websites via the Kindle app on the iPad and iPhone. You can check out up to 6 books for 21 days. Libraries have a limited amount of licences for each book, so there may be waiting ...
Book festival to bring 35 authors to downtown Bangor
Bangor Daily News
The Bangor Public Library is facing a financial pinch with the endowment shrinking and the price of books and energy steadily rising. By Aislinn Sarnacki, BDN Staff The fifth Bangor Book Festival will bring a record number of authors to Bangor on ...
Library presents banned books on film
TriValley Central
They're movies based on books that have been banned somewhere by somebody. Or books that some groups and people want to ban. Susie Dunbar came up with the idea of a library film festival based on banned books. Dunbar is Vista Grande's school and young ...
Public libraries offer e-books
Delmarva Daily Times
LAURA EMMONS/THE DAILY TIMES SALISBURY -- As e-readers and tablets become increasingly popular, public libraries are keeping up with technology by offering vast catalogues of e-books. These sleek, thin devices allow anyone with a library card to ...
KC volunteers to replace books in Joplin schools
STLtoday.com
Kansas City librarian April Roy wanted to help after she heard that a tornado had devastated Joplin schools, including blowing away books in some of the city's elementary schools. It took a while to figure it out, but Roy eventually came up with an ...
It all started in Stillwater, OK, for Google eBooks executive
NewsOK.com
BY RICHARD MIZE richardmize@opubco.com Leave a comment For Tom Turvey, it all started — the art of pairing readers with authors through publishers — over a retail counter at Caravan Books in Stillwater. Stillwater native Tom Turvey is director of ...
Taking books seriously
Daily Mirror
For a reader, picking the well-written ones, comes with years of practice when he or she becomes familiar the subject matters and writing styles of various authors. Then again, as in any case, good and bad is relative; a most favourite book of one ...
Five Books
BusinessWorld Online
There has been an explosion of chess publishing in the past few years, and a lot of very good books have been written. Each one of the My Great Predecessors of Garry Kasparov can be considered a must-read. Biographies on Amos Burn (Forster), ...
Books Bea Binene reads
Cebu Daily News
“I love the books of Sophie Kinsella—especially Confessions of a Shopaholic. I saw the movie and read the novel as well. I can relate very well to the characters in her books because I'm addicted to shopping, too. I collect bags, shoes, shades, ...
Perry, Romney quote each other's books as ammo in debate
The Tennessean
The books have become prominent ammunition in the Republican duel for the presidential nomination, as the GOP's two front-runners used each other's words as weapons during Thursday's debate. The battle of the books is unusual in a presidential primary ...
A chapter in The Book Show's history we don't need
Sydney Morning Herald
There also seems to be some confusion about exactly what sort of books the show will be about. Mason suggests it will prioritise fiction but will also look at ''memoirs, literary criticism and publishing news''. Where does that leave biography, ...
Banned books read at Saint Mary's
South Bend Tribune
George Orwell's novel is one of many books now considered a classic that people tried to banish from schools, libraries or some other public agency. It's also one of the books that Saint Mary's faculty, administrators, staff and students will read ...

     
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