| Republic restores 2 books to library, with rules Houston Chronicle (AP) Two months after removing two books from its curriculum and school library, a southwest Missouri school board has voted to allow them back into the library but with strong restrictions on who will be allowed to check them out. ... | ||
| Dolls, books give glimpse of historic New Orleans BusinessWeek Denise Lewis Patrick, who wrote the Cecile stories, said the books gave her a chance to reconnect to her New Orleans roots. "I grew up in Natchitoches, but my grandmother was from New Orleans," she said. "And I love history and storytelling, ... | ||
| 'The Color Purple' and other Alice Walker works finally released as e-books Washington Post “If this were not enough, there is a sense, lacking often in publishing, of connectedness with the author, of all of us being in this adventure together, wanting it to be the best.” Walker's agent, Wendy Weil, wrote in an email that “with e-book ... | ||
| Kindle library lending begins in Seattle, King County The Seattle Times (blog) Seattle-area libraries are testing the long-awaited Kindle feature that lets patrons transfer borrowed library books to the electronic device. Amazon.com agreed in April to work with OverDrive, a Cleveland company that provides electronic book lending ... | ||
| UM freezes book digitizing project after lawsuit Wall Street Journal Authors shouldn't have to trust their works to a group that's making up the rules as it goes along," Turow said. The authors said books from nearly every nation have been digitized, including thousands of works published in 2001 in China, France, ... | ||
| Are books as a design element a thing of the past? Examiner.com Perfect, the article states, for "ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read." The article goes on to explain that e-books have overtaken hardcover sales and that the Swedish furniture ... | ||
| Lineup of Food/Drink Authors Baltimore Magazine The Food for Thought Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival will be cookin' with some great visiting authors and local chefs this weekend, Sept. 23-25. I think I'm just going to camp out there the whole time. Here's the schedule: Noon-2 pm Chefs from ... | ||
| Vt. man facing more publishing fraud charges Houston Chronicle BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) A 62-year-old Vermont man is facing more charges he took money from aspiring authors to publish their books and then not doing so is facing more charges. Last week Peter Campbell-Copp of Manchester pleaded not guilty to two new ... | ||
| CALS Banned Books Week Today's THV While Arkansas has no banned books, it certainly fields some challenges to certain literature. Assistant Director for Public Relations at the Central Arkansas Library System Susan Hill Gelé discusses the topic in detail. "Challenged books are different ... | ||
| Books without Borders TODAYonline "Buying books goes beyond the individual purchase to a communal experience where one can share, receive feedback or discuss with others within the NoQ community or with friends." That Times Publishing - owner of the Asia-wide bookstore chain, ... | ||
| KnowledgeView Launches Advanced Mobility and Newsletter Publishing Solutions ... Sacramento Bee By KnowledgeView KnowledgeView will launch at the IFRA Expo 2011 two Expo Firsts: Hosted very affordable publishing solutions for Web-Mobile, Android, iPhone and iPad to cater to small and large publishers: Be there, Inform, Engage and Publish. ... | ||
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| Library Going Digital MyMotherLode.com Library card holders will soon be allowed to download books onto their I-Pad, Kindle, or other handheld devices, and will have access to the book for a period of 21 days. At the end of the period, the book will no longer appear on the device, ... | ||
| Google Books case stalls The Daily Princetonian The Authors Guild; equivalent organizations in Australia, Canada and the UK; and a large group of other authors filed a lawsuit against a partnership between Google and the universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Cornell University and the ... | ||
| Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market Publishers Weekly Even has Amazon dominates e-book sales, however, the survey found that ePub has gained traction across all publishing segments in terms of the devices and platforms publishers are targeting e-books for. While 18% of all publishers are making their ... | ||
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| Katherine Paterson discusses the longevity of paper books and the best of ... Washington Post (blog) By Janice D'Arcy Books are everywhere this week with Northern Virginia's Fall For The Book running through Friday, the Baltimore Book Festival starting Friday and the gargantuan two-day National Book Festival on the Nation Mall this weekend. ... | ||
| Former Bills coach signs books, talks football News 10NBC Former Bills coach and General Manager Marv Levy was in Rochester Tuesday and he was talking Bills football but he was also signing books. Levy's new book called "Between the Lies" is a fictional novel. He says during his coaching years he would put ... | ||
| What Startups Can Teach Publishers | Publishing Perspectives By Guest Contributor The comparison of authors to entrepreneurs is also strong, though writers must appreciate their role in engaging readers to buy books. “I can't get your mom to buy your book,” my publisher explained when I signed the contract for my first book. ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
| Ebooks and science: Livestreamed tonight | The Loom | Discover ... By Carl Zimmer I'm heading to New York this evening for an exciting conversation about the future of books, hosted by Science Online New York. We'll be talking about the new opportunities opened up by ebooks and apps, as well as some of the problems ... The Loom | ||
| Publishing Words: The Future of Books | Arts | The Harvard Crimson By SOFIE C. BROOKS Today alone she will sell thousands of books directly to readers, without the help of a major publisher. This type of change threatens to render the entire business obsolete, assuming that other aspiring authors feel confident enough to go in ... The Harvard Crimson | Latest Stories | ||
| MediaPost Publications Authors Guild Challenges Claims About ... By Wendy Davis The theory was that no publisher would risk printing new copies of those books if doing so could result in damages of $150000 per infringement. Now, however, new information turned up by theAuthors Guild challenges the premise that ... MediaPost | Online Media News | ||
| Library Ebooks now Available for the Kindle - The Digital Reader By Nate Hoffelder I found an ongoing discussion over on MobileRead this evening where several Kindle owners are trying (and succeeding) to download ebooks from their libraries. ... I don't think they are able to do that with a book unless it's one of their books. I know ... Blog Roll, An American Editor, BeWriteBooks, 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 ... The Digital Reader | ||
| 3quarksdaily: a place not just for books, but for stories By Morgan Meis The idea of the library as theatrical set, where the content of books is secondary to the atmosphere books create, may gain more respect in coming years. This past May marked the centennial of the New York Public Library's main branch ... 3quarksdaily | ||
| Sample this! Authors say use of fair use is growing - KansasCity.com Sample this! Authors say use of fair use is growing ..... Books · Restaurants · Visual Arts · Opinion · Columnists · Yael T. Abouhalkah · Miriam Pepper · Lewis W. Diuguid · E. Thomas McClanahan · Barbara Shelly · Lee Judge. Blogs ... Kansas City Star: Entertainment | ||
| Library Lending on Kindle Books Now Available In Some Areas By Melanie Pinola Amazon's Kindle Library Lending, which lets Kindle users to borrow books from over 11000 libraries across the US is live now in some areas—Seattle at least. Lifehacker |
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