Long books for a long weekend

Long books for a long weekend | Dystel & Goderich Literary ...
By Lauren
Back before I became an English major and then publishing professional, I used to feel a tremendous need to finish anything I started. In publishing, that's a virtual impossibility, but as a teenager I opened The Stand, never really liked it that ...
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Vanderbilt exhibits explore how books and art inspire each other ...
By Ann Marie Deer Owens
Vanderbilt exhibits explore how books and art inspire each other . A joint opening reception for “The Book as Art: Beautiful Books” and “Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art” is scheduled Sept. 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. in two ...
Vanderbilt News

books about the city of Washington
Washington Post
Christopher Sten, a professor of English at George Washington University, begins the survey with the capital's founding in 1800 and pinpoints the dichotomy of Washington writing — authors focus either on the business of politics or on the everyday ...
E-books Continue To Move Into Mainstream
Patch.com
With the growth of tablets, many more people are finding e-books to be as compelling as Angry Birds or Facebook. Publishers and authors hope that the new technology might actually bring new readers to books or help lapsed readers of fiction to ...
Decatur Book Festival gets ready for big weekend
Champion
It's wonderful to have so many authors, publishers and books being represented in one place,” Straub said. Throughout the festival their booth will feature activities for young and old. “We will be having authors and WINK's tutors visiting throughout ...
Amazon Kindle to let readers question authors
Ubergizmo
Amazon recently launched a test version of Kindle that gives users the ability to question authorsabout their work. Called the @author feature, it lets Kindle users highlight passages in an eBook, add questions about the passage and send them off to ...
Hip Digital Inc. to Offer eBooks and Audiobooks from OverDrive®
PR.com (press release)
eBooks are a high value reward that is sure to be top on everyone's holiday list this year and we are excited to be able to enhance our offerings with this significant partnership.” Most recently, Hip Digital added to its industry-leading portfolio of ...
More New Authors Turn to Self-Publishing
Voice of America
September 02, 2011 More New Authors Turn to Self-Publishing Self-published books outnumber those released by traditional publishers Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC More and more authors are taking control of their future by self-publishing their work. ...
Writer of 'sexy novels' taking part in Aurora library author fair
Chicago Sun-Times
10, for the Aurora Public Library's Catch a Bunch of Authors fair from 1 to 4 pm at the Eola Community Center, 555 S. Eola Road. “My real name, Kathy, was not a romantic enough name (for publishers),” Lee said. She did write “five or six books” as ...
Atlantic Books closing most of its South Jersey locations
Press of Atlantic City
Donna Hennessey, right, shows friend and fellow teacher Maggie Zale, both from Pottstown, Pa., a funny card on Thursday at the 12th street and Boardwalk location of Atlantic Books store in Ocean City. The chain is closing both Boardwalk locations, ...
E-Readers: Offering an Intellectual Treat!
Business Review India
Take a look as we dole out some of the best: Amazon is the leader in online book world: it makes the Amazon Kindle to have the large collection of eBooks.Presently Amazon Kindle is using the 3 rd version of it's which includes Wi-Fi connectivity and 3G ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: Bloody Wolverines, Vampires and Baked Goods
New York Times (blog)
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES Our Best Sellers lists are filled with movement this week: The deluxe edition of WE3, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, enters at No. 1 on the hardcover list with their compelling and beautifully illustrated tale about ...
Quark Includes Channel in Digital Publishing Revolution
What They Think
DENVER, CO – With today's launch of QuarkXPress 9.1 and App Studio, Quark becomes the only vendor in the digital publishing industry to allow its channel partners to sell licenses that enable their customers to publish content to the iPad. ...
Ludacris Helps Provide 30000 Students With New Books
HipHopDX
by Sean Ryon Earlier this year, Ludacris announced that he had teamed up with Better World Books and DoSomething.org to launch the Epic Book Drive to provide the Recovery School District in New Orleans with new textbooks. Now, it appears as if Chris ...
Now Everyone is an Author: Publishing eBooks from Mobile Phones
PR.com (press release)
Instebooks apps automatically convert the speech to text, form narratives, and index the content before publishing. Published instebooks are real eBooks readable in most eReaders, smartphones, and tablets. Though published by amateur authors the eBooks ...
Live Nude Authors: UK's Unbound Lets A ... - Publishing Perspectives
By Roger Tagholm
“The idea for Unbound really came out of frustration with publishing as it is currently structured,” says co-founder John Mitchinson. “We thought there has to be a better way of getting books out. There are great ideas; why not let readers have a ...
Publishing Perspectives
More Classic Kids Books Hit the Apple App Store - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
... AllFacebook · AllTwitter · SemanticWeb · The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ·Publishing · Deals · Bookselling · Writer Resources · GalleyCat Reviews · Jobs · Cambridge University Press is looking for a Editorial Assistant. next job Oxford Press University is looking for a Development Editor. next job Smithsonian Books is looking for a Smithsonian Books Editorial Internship. next job Life Extension is looking for a Integrative Medicine: Text Book Editor in Chief. see all ...
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Best Books of 2011 « Genreville
By Rose Fox
A Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Publishing Blog Hosted by Publishers Weekly. Home · Industry News ... For example, there hasn't been much epic fantasy that really wowed me; I liked The Dragon's Path a lot, but it didn't bowl me over like Abraham's Seasons of War books did (though admittedly that is a really high bar), and A Dance with Dragons and The Wise Man's Fear were pretty decent but don't make sense outside of the series context. A lot of the people who had ...
Genreville
Australia's Largest Bookseller Launches Publishing Arm ...
By Nate Hoffelder
The goal of the new imprint is to create publishable books and possibly distribute them through Dymocks. There's no mention of eBooks, but I imagine they will be included as well. It sounds like it's going to be something more than your usual ...
eBookNewser
The Gawker Guide to Fall Books
By Lauri Apple
Fall's the time for sitting on the couch with an overflowing snack bowl and dogs in your lap, sunning yourself in the bright lamp light that helps you to manage your Seasonal Affective Disorder, and trying not to think of winter. In other words, a ...
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