Poet John Ashbery and bookseller Mitchell Kaplan to receive honorary National Book Awards

Poet John Ashbery and bookseller Mitchell Kaplan to receive honorary National Book Awards ... Washington Post Kaplan, whose Books & Books in Miami, Florida, is among the country's leading independent stores, has won the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Kaplan also co-founded the Miami Book Fair International and is a former ...

Changing Reading Forever, Again New Yorker (blog) “Cultural decline is not inevitable,” said Dana Gioia, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, upon the announcement that more Americans were reading books than in previous years. It was a small victory—“literary” reading rose seven per ...

Facebook 'Likes' music, films and books: Site transforms into 'entertainment ... Daily Mail By Rob Waugh Facebook's latest 'revamp' is no cosmetic overhaul - the site will now offer films, music, news and books directly through the site, in a move that will put in direct competition with media giants such as Time Warner and Fox. ...

Graphic Books Best Sellers: Mythic Tales of Man and Gods ... By By ADAM KEPLER The comics medium has grown adept at translating legendary stories from the course of civilized history. ArtsBeat

This Week In Photography Books By Jonathan Blaustein As such, I spend quite a bit of time at photo-eye, which has one of the world's best inventories of photo books and 'zines. We're kicking off a new feature where I'll be doing quick reviews of new releases, to give you a sense of what's new and ... A Photo Editor

U.S. libraries now lending eBooks for Kindle U.S. libraries now lending eBooks for Kindle. By Darren Quick. 23:08 September 22, 2011. Library-goers in the U.S. can now borrow books for Kindle eReaders and Kindle apps from their local library. Despite their somewhat stuffy image, ... Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

mental_floss Blog » Children's Books for Children: The History of ... By Rob Lammle Duplaix had the idea of creating small, sturdy, inexpensive books with fewer pages, simpler stories, and more illustrations so little kids could actually enjoy them. Western was already publishing a line for kids called Golden Books, so they ... mental_floss Blog

Food Politics » Recent books about food and cooking By Marion Here are some of the books that have drifted my way. These in particular are ... These authors watched movies and television, examined package labels, visited exotic places, delved in wonderful libraries, and ate great food.” Corn Refiners ... Food Politics

Facebook Timeline, Or Who Needs Baby Books? | Best Week Ever By Eliot Glazer Aye yaye yaye. Facebook's redesign continues to grow, and now we've been introduced to some sort of newfangled product called Timeline. Mark Zuckerberg calls it. Best Week Ever

Gal Beckerman's 6 favorite books about political movements - The ... By The Week The opinion editor of The Forward recommends histories of the Civil Rights movement, the Russian Revolution, and the birth of Israel. The Week: Most Recent Home Page Posts

First Book partners online with Free-eBooks.net to battle illiteracy ... By Paul Biba Follow us on. Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| ... With the development and availability of digital books, called eBooks, it's hoped that more reading material will eventually be made more affordable and easily available, without the expense of paper-based books and the expensive distribution of these works. However, today, in low-income communities with less handy computer ... TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Kindle E-Books Available For Loan At Local Libraries @PSFK Kindle e-books are being offered on wireless-enabled loan at 11, 000 participating libraries across the US. ... Electronics & Gadgets, Media & Publishing, Web & Technology. TAGS: amazon, books, checkout, ebooks, Kindle, Library, loan ... PSFK

Libraries Rethink Digitization Effort After Authors Sue | The Cornell ... By Rachel Rabinowitz The lawsuit, filed Sept. 12, claims that Google and the five universities — Cornell, the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of California — have digitized about seven million books illegally. ... The Cornell Daily Sun

How to Check Out (and Return!) Library eBooks from OverDrive on ... By Bobbi Newman 09.22.2011 · Posted in eBooks. Or any Kindle application including the Cloud Reader. Having gone through this process myself I can say it is almost like magic, especially compared to the pain and suffering that is Adobe Digital Editions. Enjoy ... Librarian by Day

This Year's Authors | Humanities Tennessee Southern Festival of Books · Community History Program ... www.humanitiestennessee.org/programs/southern.../authors

Julian Assange: Statement on the Unauthorised, Secret Publishing ... According to The Independent, Canongate “enacted a huge security operation to secretly ship booksout to thousands of stores nationwide without tipping ... wikileaks.org/Julian-Assange-Statement-on-the.html

Libraries lending Kindle books Amazon Kindle books are now available at more than 11000 libraries across the country. Users can borrow e-books, which will vary by location, through their ... specials.msn.com/A-List/.../Libraries-get-Kindle-books.aspx?... Authors: Disbanded  bandmates often exit music biz for other careers Washington Post According to research by Davis, Calif., pop music authors Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March, disbanded bandmates of the past have ended up in everything from landscaping to auto repair. Who knows, the mechanic who tunes up your car may have once tuned ... Free Books on Kindle, Smartphone from Library Patch.com By Franklin Tucker The popular and classic eBooks are available through the library's website using the OverDrive Digital Media catalog (go to www.belmont.lib.ma.us and click on “Find eBooks and eAudio”). Almost all of the eBooks now in the OverDrive ... Naperville writers turn to self-publishing Chicago Sun-Times “The (self-published books) that do well are the ones whose (authors) tell everyone they can think of about the book,” Nugent said. “Some stop when they get it on the shelf. Your work has only started.” And although the cookbook ladies made their money ... Amazon founder heads digital advance on Guardian books power list The Guardian But the list still represents the talented editors and agents who are the nuts and bolts of the publishing world. Andrew "the Jackal" Wylie is at number 14, despite his faltering foray into the world of ebooks, and Ed Victor, whose clients include ... Books power 100: 60 - 100 The Guardian The publisher's digital mastermind will kick off this autumn by focusing on 500 books that are no longer available, including titles by Alan Clark, Rose Macaulay, VS Pritchett and Ivy Compton-Burnett. Offering readers the chance to purchase ebooks as ... The Most Powerful People in Books Don't Write Many Books The Atlantic Wire Today in books: The Guardian ranks publishing's 100 most powerful people, what America's unbanning on the eve of Banned Books Week, and Bill Clinton has written a new book to save the economy. The Guardian published its Books Power 100 list today and ... Cornerstone Books Gone, Salem Lit. Fest Still a Go Patch.com Those looking to publish their work can then get insider tips from agents, self-published authors and publicists at panels like the Literary Agent Panel, "What Every Writer MUST Know About Publicity" and "The Changing Face of Publishing. ... The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books The Atlantic By Dan Cohen On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild sued the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University over digital copies of books from their vast libraries. ... Josh Powell barred from publishing Susan Powell's diary entries Salt Lake Tribune A Washington state judge has barred Susan Powell's husband from publishing her teenage diary entries, at least for now. Judge Vicki Hogan granted Susan Powell's parents' request for a preliminary injunction in a hearing that coincidentally fell the day ... Peepers Reading Glasses and Leon & Lulu Partner to Sponsor Books & Authors ... Sacramento Bee 23, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to support children's literacy, Peepers Reading Glasses will provide over 150 pairs of fashionable and optical quality reading glasses at Leon & Lulu's Books &Authors event. Leon & Lulu will celebrate the ... Cookbook authors featured in West Texas Book, Music Festival Abilene Reporter-News Cookbook authors and chefs were invited to speak to a group of people through the lunch hour during the West Texas Book & Music Festival. Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Abilene cooks came to hear from cookbook authors and chefs at the Abilene Public Library ... 3 books about Christopher Columbus Washington Post These books will clear up his story. 1. Columbus: The Four Voyages , by Laurence Bergreen (Viking, $35). Everyone knows that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but did you know he made three more voyages to the New World? ... Two books on the Medill newspaper dynasty Washington Post They are now almost entirely forgotten outside newspaper circles — the simultaneous appearance of two ambitious new books about them is nothing if not a mystery — but the practices for which they were noted unfortunately linger on: abuse of press ... A century later, a Massachusetts library lifts its ban on a Mark Twain short story Christian Science Monitor Just in time for Banned Books Week, the Charlton, Mass., library reversed its ban on Twain's story "Eve's Diary." By Molly Driscoll / September 23, 2011 "Eve's Diary," a short story by Mark Twain, includes an illustration of a nude Eve, which spurred a ... Bookstores try on-demand publishing MarketWatch As Borders and other bookstores close, one major publisher is taking a novel approach to boosting sales. Books: If you love a book, let it go The Seattle Times Avid reader "releases" books in coffee shops, parks, even the laundry room of her apartment complex. By SUSAN THURSTON No comments have been posted to this article. An avid reader, Vicki Long considers it cruel to let a book stand on a shelf gathering ... How One School Observes Banned Book Week Newport Beach Independent Newspaper Wrong again. Each year, beloved authors such as Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, AA Milne, and Webster (yes, the dictionary!) find themselves on the list of books publicly targeted by different groups and individuals. In fact, even the book containing the ... Three iOS Children's eBooks Now Available on Nook Color Gotta Be Mobile iStoryTime, makers of three iOS children's eBook apps for iOS, ported these books to the Nook Color and parents can purchase them for their kids now. The three books include How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Smurfs. ... Six essential digital publishing tools for journalists IJNetVideo There are many digital tools out there a journalist can use today but only a handful are essential. Emmy award-winning journalist and ICFJ trainer Patricio Espinoza shares a few he uses on a daily basis. Sports Books That Matter: A Selection Wall Street Journal Seabiscuit wasn't the greatest race horse—there are good books about the likes of Man o' War, Secretariat and we hope, one day, Zenyatta—but he was one of the sport's great underdogs. Ms. Hillenbrand, who went on to write the current best seller ... County bookshop displays banned books Oxford Times Along with Charles Dickens and Anne Frank, she now joins a collection of 80 'banned' authors on display in an Oxfordshire bookshop. The Oxfam bookshop, in Thame, has collected more than 120books which have been banned or suppressed at some stage. ... Storyopolis Entertainment Announces Literary Liaison With East West Literary ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Our mutual goal: to offer our talented authors and illustrators access to the best resources in the publishing industry. Storyopolis Entertainment is proud to announce that, effective immediately, East West Literary Agency, LLC. ... Powell's Books Cuts Eight Managers in Reorg Publishers Weekly Powell's Books, which laid off 31 staff members in February, announced Thursday that it has reorganized its management team and in the process eliminated eight executive positions. According to Powell's, the new plan will be implemented in conjunction ...  Google ebookstore      Powell's Books

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