| What eBooks Can Offer — and Take Away Wired News Yet some of the software restrictions and rights deals that these ebooks, apps and their platforms use can make them unfriendly to librarians, archivists, and future users. How can authors, designers, and publishers best exploit these new opportunities ... | ||
| Writers Sue Universities for Digitizing Books Courthouse News Service The authors say that "since commencing the digitization project, Google and its partners have digitized more than 12 million books." They say the digitization project may be worth millions of dollars to the universities and their partners. ... | ||
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| New library from old books Hindustan Times For the past few months, Bandra resident Vibha Kamat has been reaching out to her friends and relatives demanding their children's old Tinkles and Nancy Drew books. Kamat and her friends, Sonal Bimal and Vaishali Shinde, have taken up the task to ... | ||
| Adventures With E-Books, Kindle Single Edition Wired News It was produced in close consultation with the Kindle Singles editor, David Blum — the gatekeeper who determineswhat gets chosen to be a Kindle Single, and what gets relegated to the long tail of Kindle Direct Publishing. Reuters is running a great ... | ||
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| Sumter native donates historical astronomy materials Sumter Item Donated by Robert B. Ariail of Columbia, the collection comprises more than 5200 rare books and star atlases, scientific journals, rare offprints and manuscripts, historic and modern telescopes plus binoculars, lenses and other scientific equipment ... | ||
| Lexolution IT Unveils an e-Publishing Platform for JLLC PR.com (press release) The website is basically an online store for e- books & writing services. This e-commerce store sells e-books that are written by Jreamwriter as well as other authors who are associated with Jreamwriter LLC. The website offers membership to the ... | ||
| 16 authors in contention for Asian literature prize Daijiworld.com "We selected the long-list from a list of 52 books. And we were given barely three months to plod through the books. Each member of the jury of five recommended three favourites. We read almost round-the-clock," author Ira Pande, chairperson of the ... | ||
| Purchase Featured Books NPR An MIT senior fellow and author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak presents a definitive account of the bioterrorism attack that killed five people, the ensuing seven-year investigation and the costly disinformation that clouded ... | ||
| The Romance Reader: 'New York to Dallas' Kansas City Star By LEZLIE PATTERSON This newest Eve and Roarke story by JD Robb is a bit different from the other 32 books in the phenomenal series. Obviously, it's the first "In Death" book that doesn't have "In Death" in its title. But most importantly, the story is ... | ||
| Book Marketing Services For Authors By National Expert, Annie Jennings PR The Open Press (press release) Annie Jennings is a book marketing expert specializing in helping authors optimize their book marketing and publicity plans. Annie understands that getting publicity on major media outlets help sauthors market their books across the USA and create far ... | ||
| Book teaches gardeners to make concrete Norwich Bulletin By Lisa Wallace Now, authors Malin Nilsson and Camilla Arvidsson put it in the home crafter's hands with "Concrete Garden Projects" (Timber Press). The ultimate material of uniformity, concrete becomes a convenient and inexpensive base for garden ... | ||
| Novo Nordisk adds e-books to patient support program Medical Marketing and Media Novo Nordisk is getting in on the boom in electronic publishing with a series of e-books available through its Cornerstones4Care patient support program. The free five-volume series, compatible with all major e-readers and downloadable at ... | ||
| Actor LeVar Burton goes digital with RRKidz reading app VentureBeat With RRKidz, Burton is introducing a reading, discovery and exploration platform (enhanced eBooks) that could have more than 300 interactive books by the time it launches. Burton himself is planning on reading at least 15 percent of the titles in the ... | ||
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| Apps vs. eBooks: Where can newsrooms and journalists make the ... But while writing an app can mean creating and compiling executable code, creating an eBook required no more tech skills than writing HTML then zipping some files. (Here's our handy three-part do-it-yourself guide for publishing eBooks. ... OJR | ||
| Authors Guild Locates Orphaned Work Author in Less Than Three ... By Jason Boog The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry ... Earlier this week, the Authors Guild sued HathiTrust to prevent a consortium of universities from providing free access to some orphaned works in a scanned collection of seven million books. ... GalleyCat | ||
| Looking for Facts About Self-Published eBooks | Publishers Lunch By Michael Cader With abundant stories of self-published success via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble's PubIt and other outlets--and growing concerns as to whether self-epublishing opportunities and increased acquisitions by Amazon's own imprints poses a challenge to established publishers, we made self-published ebooks the topic of our ... Of course some of this begs the question of whether consumers have any knowledge of who publishes the books they buy in the first place. ... Publishers Lunch | ||
| How to keep orphaned books orphans By Stephan Kinsella It's not helping authors, it's doing the exact opposite, by acting like a massive luddite, attacking any form of innovation or any system that encourages the reading of books and the sharing of knowledge. Shame on the Authors Guild, who seems ... Center for the Study of Innovative... | ||
| Will E-Books Change How Our Homes Look? | Apartment Therapy ... By Anna Hoffman Did you guys see the news that IKEA is updating the Billy bookcase to make it less of a shelf forbooks and more a display case for objects? According to The Economist, the new shelves will be deeper, designed for coffee table books, vases, ... Apartment Therapy Main | ||
| 6 Compelling Reasons Why Authors Need to Blog — The Book ... By Joel Friedlander In my day job, I help authors bring their books to completion and get them ready to go to press, whether it's through a digital print on-demand service, an offset print run, or going straight to e-Books. One thing that's common with these authors: their dawning .... Joel Friedlander is a self-published author and book designer who blogs about book design, self-publishing and the indie publishing life at TheBookDesigner.com. He's also the proprietor of Marin Bookworks, where he helps ... The Book Designer | ||
| Digging Up the Weirdest Old Books and Comics From the Thrift ... By Lisa When we first encountered Alan Scherstuhl's "Studies in Crap" column over at the "SF Weekly," we knew he was one of us. Every week, he goes ... Collectors Weekly Articles and... | ||
| From Italy to NYC: Europa Editions Translates Success | Publishing ... By Brittany Hazelwood I think that we have been able to establish a reputation for successfully publishing books in translation in the US because we have been very selective. We've concentrated on established authors who have an established readership in their ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
| Dezeen » Blog Archive » Competition: five books and magazines ... By Rose Etherington Competition: five books and magazines from Brownbook to be won. 14 September ... As a multimedia platform, BROWNBOOK Publishing regularly host events, pop up shops and we produce video content. As part of Shubbak, the first festival ... Dezeen | ||
| Author visits Metropolis Books 'with a heavy heart' - LA Observed By Kevin Roderick Author and humorist Ashley Ream blogs about stopping in to say goodbye to Metropolis Books. The Main Street store in the Old Bank District of Downtown is closing at the end of September so owner Julie Swayze can move back home. ... LA Observed |
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