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Publishers Make 'Good Progress' on Google Books Talks, Get More Time
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Publishing groups suing Google over its effort to digitize millions of books said this week that the two sides have made "good progress" in reaching a settlement. At a status hearing on the case, meanwhile, a judge gave them more ...
Authors Guild sues universities over online books
WPTV
The authors said books from nearly every nation have been digitized, including thousands of works published in 2001 in China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom, and hundreds from Australia, Austria, ...
The Children's Authors Who Broke the Rules
New York Times
Yet these three authors — who each have a new book coming out this month in what can only be described as a Seussian coincidence (“But, see! We are as good as you. Look! Now we have newbooks, too!”) — challenged the conception of what a children's ...
Man donates Vietnam War books to N. Idaho college
Houston Chronicle
That quest to learn everything he could about the war's history led to an obsession with collecting the finest, rare first-edition and out-of-print books on the war. Recently, Rudy decided to give the best of his collection to the Lewis-Clark State ...
No Authors Have Been Harmed in the Making of This Library
EFF
We've been puzzling over the Author's Guild's decision to sue several university libraries for participating in the digitization and storage of millions of works (largely in connection with the GoogleBooks project) and making scans of some of those ...
US needs a wake-up call, says new Friedman book
Reuters
By Andrea Burzynski NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new book by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum began with a broken subway escalator the authors encountered during their daily commutes that they saw as epitomizing the state of politics and economy. ...
E-books push deeper into interactive territory
Los Angeles Times
Amazon proved it could transform the publishing landscape by introducing its Kindle e-reader in November 2007. Before that, e-books were an oddity, and e-readers strange, unloved creatures. After Amazon put the Kindle in front of book buyers, ...
Borders Books in Fort Worth is finally closed
Pegasus News
I was a little stunned to see this sign in the window of the Borders Books in Fort Worth last night. I thought I had one more day to pick through the liquidators salvage, but alas it wasn't to be. I honestly was a bit saddened to realize one of Fort ...
On the Books Sept. 16: Harlan Ellison sues to stop 'In Time' starring Justin ...
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
++ Digital self-publishing phenoms have been making headlines lately, but hotel concierge Amber C. Johnson is a different kind of scrappy author. Her book, New York, Phew York, is a scratch-and-sniff guide to New York featuring 20 smells, ...
Three Books For The Truly Fearless Frequent Flier
NPR
Here are three books I actually read while five miles off the ground that featured the worst that can happen in the sky. Even though they forced me to face my fears, I loved every moment I spent with them. by William Langewiesche Journalist William ...
Banned Books Read Out Launched Online
Publishers Weekly
ALA publishes a Top Ten Banned Books list annually. The authors of challenged books are also participating in the read-out. Videos of frequently censored authors Judy Blume and Lauren Myracle have recently been posted. Other highly acclaimed and/or ...
Kids do read books in Everett!
HeraldNet (blog)
by Emily, Everett Public Library staff Out in the adult world, when people learn that I work with children and teens in a public library, they often ask: Do kids still read books? They do in Everett! During our annual two-month long summer reading ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: There Shall Come a Titan
New York Times (blog)
These Titans, written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George PĂ©rez, become one of DC's most popular books. The stories reprinted in this omnibus edition chronicle the formation of the team, faceoffs with the assassin Deathstroke and the Fearsome ...
Google wants to reformat the publishing business
Siliconrepublic.com
It has emerged that Google is about to take on the social publishing revolution and beat early proponents like Flipboard and Pulse by helping the genre to flourish on its Android platform for smartphones and tablets. Anyone who is familiar with apps ...
Every Sale of New philosophy Product to Provide New Books for Kids in Need
MarketWatch (press release)
100% of philosophy's net proceeds from the sale of this new gel goes directly to First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides new books to children from low-income families. "Our friends at philosophy are stepping up to make a real difference in ...
New kids' books: Wimps and dragons and Dr. Seuss, oh my!
Los Angeles Times
New books from both classic authors are coming this month — Seuss' "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories" (Random House) and Silverstein's "Everything on It: Poems and Drawings" (HarperCollins). "New" isn't exactly the correct word to use ...
Starting them off young
Cabinet.com
By AMY SOLOMON The Friends of the Merrimack Library believe literacy is so important that the group encourages new parents to read books to their babies. This encouragement comes in the form a gift bag from the Merrimack Public Library, courtesy of the ...
Last week in September celebrates banned books
Our Colorado News
No matter how racy a story may be, Banned Books Week celebrates an individual's right to read it. The list of banned or challenged books in the United States is lengthy, and some of the included titles can be surprising. Date of publication doesn't ...
D & M publisher's story is a real page-turner
Vancouver Sun
The publishing house was launched in 1971, and today the company has three imprints: Douglas & McIntyre, Greystone Books and New Society Publishers. Between them, they produce well over 100books a year — in both print and e-formats — ranging in ...
Pulled up for publishing unlicenced paper
Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper
Under the “requirement of a licence to publish books and newspapers,” in the Act, section 96 states that no person shall print or publish, or assist in the printing or publishing of, any newspaper in Bhutan, except in accordance with a valid licence, ...
Books: Star-spangled 'events' usher in the fall
Buffalo News
But neither of those is going to be what makes the world of books so authentically exciting this fall. Whether one's favored chosen publishing conveyance is digital or Gutenberg's magical self-propelled paper machine between covers, we are going to see ...
Political books: Party colours
The Guardian
Politics has its traditions, one of them being that – despite the digital revolution – politicians still like to make speeches and write books to set out their case. Next week, at the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham, the speeches begin, ...
Books in Spanish donated to Lawrence Public Librar
Eagle Tribune
She said it is hard to order books in Spanish because it had to be done through publishing companies in Spain or Mexico. The books would either be on back order, took too long to get or never arrived. Tejada said he has been collecting the books since ...
Community's needy children to get 150000 books — free
Stockton Record
But for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, access to books often is extremely limited. Providing a free book to a needy child can make a big difference in his or her life. Giving 150000books to needy children? That might be a game-changer. ...
We Give Books to Help At-Risk Students Support Jumpstart's Read for the Record
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Millions of children in low-income neighborhoods don't have books in their homes, missing out on the chance to develop crucial early literacy skills that affect their success in the classroom and in life. We Give Books, a digital reading initiative ...
US religious publishers reap rewards with Justin Bieber and the Bible
Reuters Blogs (blog)
New editions of the Bible have also been released recently, as well as e-books and audio book downloads by popular religious authors. “Both in dollars and units sold, the industry is back in line with its historical growth of the last decade,” since ...
Brumback Library now offers downloadable audiobooks, ebooks, music and video
Times Bulletin
The Brumback Library has expanded its services to include eBooks, audiobooks, digital music and digital video. The Library's new digital media content is available to download at any time from the Library's website via the Ohio eBook Project. ...
Italy's 40K Books: No Paper, No Attention ... - Publishing Perspectives
By Rachel Aydt
MILAN: E-book publishing house 40K Books (the “K” stands for Key, not the abbreviation for thousand) is a company based in Milan that has planted itself firmly into the global digital marketplace. They've shaped their business around two constants: no paper, and no attention ... Our essays are, by definition, original works, because we ask our authors for hot, entertaining storytelling with a strong focus. Novelettes and novellas sometimes are previously published in print, mostly in ...
Publishing Perspectives
Is It Time to Rethink E-Books?
By Jacob Gube
It seems that even though e-readers are everywhere, the publishing industry, editors, and writers seem to have forgotten that they're working with an entirely new, quite powerful medium. ....Cinematic E-Books. The move toward a more cinematic electronic book is also being explored. The Atavist, a new long-form article platform, recently made a great trailer for one of its authors' pieces. Following that trend, there's even an app that attaches sound effects and soundtracks to whatever ...
Six Revisions
Publishing Information Right Here! | Rachelle Gardner
By Rachelle Gardner
Publishing Information Right Here! home title Posted on ... Want to check out Mary DeMuth's e-books on writing book proposals? You can find ... My passion is partnering with authors to bring worthwhile books to publication. I started this blog ...
Rachelle Gardner
Pubslush Is Like Kickstarter For Books - GalleyCat
By Dianna Dilworth
Pubslush Is Like Kickstarter For Books. ... The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ·Publishing · Deals · Bookselling · Writer ... Authors can participate by submitting ten pages and a summary of their book on the site. It's a good idea to ...
GalleyCat
Starbucks, Apple expanding giveaways to books, TV shows ...
By Todd Bishop
The partnership has now expanded to books, with this week's giveaway of an extended book sample from Erin Morgenstern's “The Night Circus,” and AllThingsD says TV shows could soon be added to the mix, as well. Previously: How I just ...
GeekWire
Books Set Free - The Rumpus.net
By Lisa Dusenbery
The Guardian will unleash 15000 books on the Brits in a Book Swap to kick off their six-week autumn books season. Readers and writers can also give away their favorites with an embedded message for the finder. If you are in the UK, keep ...
The Rumpus.net
From the Authors Guild Blog: University of Michigan Suspends ...
By Gary D. Price
In the past few days, the Authors Guild, its members, and those commenting on this blog have identified or found leads, many quite strong, to the owners of the literary property rights to 50 of thebooks that Michigan planned to start releasing for ...
INFOdocket
Free NOOK Books - Barnes & Noble
Free NOOK Books. ... Read Star Wars NOOK Books Download now from a galaxy far, far, away ... Learn More. NOOK. NOOK Color; Overview · What's New ...
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Statistics - Most Cited Authors in Computer Science
Most Cited Computer Science Authors generated from documents in the CiteSeer x database as of September 14, 2010. An entry may correspond to multiple ...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/authors?all=true
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