Books Unbound New York Times (blog) Is any form of traditional media under more assault than the book? For half a millennium, it was happily contained between covers: easily understood by a child, disposable, nearly indestructible, demanding minimal energy, a triumph of economy and form. The Internet has upended all that, of course. Yet the strongest impression from several of the sessions at the Books in Browsers conference in San Francisco over the last two days is that while the off-line book might be dying, the online book has yet to be born. The most basic definitions are ...
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WSJ best-seller lists to include e-books
WSJ best-seller lists to include e-books Wall Street Journal AP NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Nielsen BookScan to publish best-seller lists that include both physical books and e-sales. Since 2009, Nielsen has provided the journal with lists based solely on hardcover and paperbacks. ... | ||
On the death of book publishers and other middlemen GigaOm By Mathew Ingram Oct. 28, 2011, 9:37am PT No Comments Hot on the heels of Amazon signing publishing deals with authors, and thus doing an end-run around their publisher partners, another major e-reader company says it plans to do the same: Kobo is ... | ||
Grisham talks ambulance chasers, eBooks CNN CNN: As an author who has sold millions of books, what do you think about the emergence of eBooks? Have you tried using an eReader? Grisham: Amazon sent me a Kindle two years ago as a gift. I read a couple of books on it. It was an enjoyable experience ... | ||
Hyperink, a Content Farm That Grows Books BusinessWeek Hyperink pitches itself as a way to achieve the same kind of massive scale for publishing expert advice. It's raised $1.2 million from venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Hyperink has been in trial mode and selling ... | ||
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Hyperink Commissions Books Based On Search Engine Results mediabistro.com Hyperink founder Kevin Gao told Forbes that he can “churn out a book in a month at one-tenth the cost of physical books.” The publisher already has a number of eBooks for sale. eBookNewser has more: “Hyperink already has niche titles such as The Best ... | ||
IS IT THE END FOR BOOKS? A CONVERSATION WITH TWO WISCONSIN BESTSELLING AUTHORS ... Insurance News Net (press release) A CONVERSATION WITH TWO WISCONSIN BESTSELLING AUTHORS [Corporate Report Wisconsin] The digital revolution has changed the way America does almost everything. Remember books? Those printed treasures we held in our hands, turning actual pages until we ... | ||
A Writer of Slasher Books Finds More Than a Muse New York Times We meet Mr. Fox; he is a writer of slasher books, and he has an assistant, a woman named Mary whom he conjured in a trench during his days fighting in World War I. He also has a wife, Daphne. At some point or other, all three of them write. ... | ||
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Atria Publishes First-Ever Nearfield Communications Enabled "smart book" MarketWatch (press release) Atria Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, ... | ||
Barnes & Noble to Double Size of Some Nook Boutiques Wall Street Journal The decision comes as Barnes & Noble faces intensifying competition from Amazon.com Inc. on both the e-reader and digital books front. In late September, Amazon unveiled new versions of its Kindle e-reader, including a $199 Kindle Fire tablet, ... | ||
5 Reasons E-Books Are Awesome – Even for the Most Reluctant MindShift I was happy with regular papery books. When the iPad went on sale in 2010, it was harder for me to resist. I've been using Macs, and Macs only, since I was a 6-year-old trying to ford a river in the game Oregon Trail on my school's Apple II. ... | ||
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Lonely Planet's Lights, Camera...Travel! with Special Event at McNally Jackson ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Several distinguished actors will be reading their stories at McNally Jackson Books on November 7th, 2011. "The premise behind this anthology is simple: since the ancient Greeks, actors have been society's storytellers. And ever since Hollywood first ... | ||
This Week In Photography Books By Jonathan Blaustein Edgar Martins' “This is Not a House,” is a smooth, mid-sized hardcover recently released by Dewi Lewis Publishing in England. I suspect ... Suzanne Opton's “Soldier/Many Wars” is a new, hard-cover offering from Decode Books in Seattle. ... A Photo Editor | ||
GOOD Books: Thrillers - Culture - GOOD By Nina Lincoff Five thriller novels, plus their on-screen counterparts, to get you in a Halloween mood. GOOD | ||
Hyperink Pairs Writers With Experts For Niche eBooks « eBookNewser By Dianna Dilworth Hyperink Pairs Writers With Experts For Niche eBooks. Digital publishing has changed the way thatbooks are distributed and read, but a new publishing company called Hyperink aims to change the way that books are sought out. Call it books ... eBookNewser | ||
Publishing News: Amazon's Kindle Format 8 dashes hopes for ... By Jenn Webb Any hopes of EPUB3 becoming an across-the-board publishing format standard were dashed by Amazon's new KF8 format. Also, The ... The Books in Browsers conference continues today — and it's being livestreamed. Speakers today ... O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,... | ||
Amazon, Books, and Change : Beyond Search By Stephen E. Arnold Amazon, Books, and Change. October 28, 2011. Amazon's recent pre-release sales campaign for the not-yet-here Kindle Fire, with a price below most expectations, has created a lot of buzz around the company's digital publishing aspect. ... Beyond Search |
Charlie Rose interview of Misha Glenny on his book 'DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You'
Charlie Rose interview of Misha Glenny on his book 'DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You' (video) http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11967
Florence Parry Heide, Children's Writer and Poet, Dies at 92 New York Times By BRUCE WEBER Florence Parry Heide, who wrote dozens of books of prose and poetry for children — often enhanced with the drawings by famed illustrators — that enthralled the youngest readers (and those who read to them), has died at her home in ... | ||
Thousands spent by embassies to buy Obama books CNN (blog) However, the examples given by the official were books not published until after the authors left office. "Obviously, the White House didn't have anything to do with this," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling aboard Air ... | ||
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'Honorary' Authors Still Common, Survey Finds MedPage Today Some papers included both honorary and ghost authors, such that a total of 21% of the 630 papers deviated from the ICMJE authorship standards in one way or the other. In addition to JAMA, the journals publishing these papers included the New England ... | ||
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Bookseller Amazon.com expands into publishing Toronto Star “(Self-published works) really leverage the power of digital reading and e-books to connect authors with audiences in a way that they've never been able to do before.” Asked if Kobo might follow Amazon in courting major authors and establishing ... | ||
'Elephant and Piggie' author Mo Willems on his latest best-seller and his new ... Entertainment Weekly by Jeff Labrecque Cartoonist Mo Willems likes to say he doesn't write books — he makes them. And children and parents who've enjoyed his numerous award-winning stories — Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny, Elephant and Piggie, ... | ||
Books can be a parent's best tool for teaching Local IQ I don't know how we grew up well-adjusted in the dark ages before Peter Brown started publishing. You Will Be My Friend and Children Make Terrible Pets are Brown books that show children how to get along with their peers. On top of that, they are both ... | ||
Library bringing readers, authors together The Barrie Advance “Whenever I explain this project to my friends, I tell them to picture a concert tour, except with books and authors instead of musicians and instruments,” said IFOA project co-ordinator and programmer Erin Warner. “It has a real on-the-road feel to it ... | ||
Bedbugs in books alarm libraries The Province By Elaine O'Connor, The Province October 27, 2011 Lower Mainland libraries are advising the public to report bedbugs found in loaned books after a New Westminster library shut its doors for a day for pest control. The library reopened Wednesday at noon ... | ||
Harry Potter helps Bloomsbury to 16pc rise in revenues Telegraph.co.uk The Harry Potter books and Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question helped Bloomsbury Publishing grow its first half revenues 16pc to £44.9m, although pre-tax profits more than halved to £300000. The publishing group said the decline in profits was down ... | ||
Hudson Booksellers Announces the Best Books of 2011 PR Newswire (press release) EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hudson Booksellers, a brand unit of travel retailer Hudson Group, has announced its list of the Best Books published in 2011. Hudson Group, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dufry, AG of Basel, ... | ||
Barnes and Noble – Not Just for Books Anymore FleshEatingZipper So, B&N, stop selling DVD's, CD's, computers, and MP3 players (Just ask Borders how well that went) and instead use that warehouse space to stock books. Lots of Books. Redesign the Website to push Nook books instead of paper books. Ebooks are the ... | ||
Purchase Featured Books NPR Twelve short stories from the author of Winter's Bone depict people on the fringes of society, including an injured rapist who is cared for by a young girl and a husband who cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet. There's a hardiness to Daniel ... | ||
Halloween books for kids USA Today Whether you want to trick your kids into falling asleep or just treat them to story time, here are four children's books perfect for Halloween. Click through images from the books to find out more. By Jane Yolen, illustrated by Kelly Murphy Two ... | ||
Technology is holding back ebooks Fudzilla Kevin Duffy, Blue Moose Publishing, said that a key problem for both authors and readers is ownership of the content. He said: “The problem with the Kindle is that you do not own any of the content that you download, and they can take it away from you ... | ||
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: New books describe a Maine of the past, designing the ... Morning Sentinel Read about “poor man's fertilizer” and how to put on a proper clambake. This collaboration is a smart effort to preserve the rich heritage of Maine's people, and story contributions for future books may be sent to: dlsoucy@remembermedia.com. ... | ||
Kobo To Publish Books - GalleyCat By Dianna Dilworth Like a traditional publishing house, Kobo will do the book editing, design and marketing, and will sell the books. Sound familiar? Amazon has been pushing into the publishing business itself making deals with agents and authors alike. ... GalleyCat | ||
An Interview with Kevin Weiss About Self-Publishing [Video ... By Michael Hyatt What advantages does self-publishing have over traditional publishing? What kind of authors can benefit the most from self-publishing? Who are some examples of self-published authors who have succeeded? What should an author expect ... Michael Hyatt's Blog | ||
Thursday Threads: Library Linked Data, Shifts in Publishing ... By Peter Murray In this weeks thread of topics: the final report of library linked data, an interview with one of the executives of Wiley Publishing, important questions to ask when considering major system migrations, and the announcement of work to begin on a ... Disruptive Library Technology Jester | ||
Publishing's tech and edit worlds converge - O'Reilly Radar By Jenn Webb He talked about writing collaboratively with GIT and used the SXSW fieldguide he developed as a forkable guidebook on GIT Hub as an example how coding books in HTML is a much more open, accessible format. This afternoon's lineup ... O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,... | ||
Kobo Is Getting Into Publishing - eBookNewser By Dianna Dilworth Kobo Is Getting Into Publishing. ... CBC News has more: “Kobo will be offering complete publishingservices for authors, including book editing and design. 'It's part of ... Oceanhouse Media Joins Android Books & Reference App Top Ten List ... eBookNewser | ||
Moglue: Create interactive ebooks and release ... - iLearn Technology By admin This download desktop platform makes it a snap for students to create interactive ebooks and release them as apps for iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android tablets and Android phones. Students only need to build the content once ... iLearn Technology | ||
Publishing Business Virtual Conference & Expo and ... By Paul Biba Publishing Executive and Book Business magazines will be presenting the Publishing Business Virtual Conference & Expo on October 27, 2011 and on-demand. TeleRead: News and views on e-books,... |
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