Finalists Named for National Book Awards New York Times (blog) By JULIE BOSMAN For the second year in a row books about war and foreign locales enchanted the judges of the National Book Awards, whose finalists were announced on Wednesday. The finalists for fiction are Andrew Krivak, for “The Sojourn” (Bellevue ... | ||
Bearport Publishing and Scientific Publishing Select ACCESS(TM) Digital ... MarketWatch (press release) Bearport Publishing, which offers high-interest nonfiction books on topics that appeal to young readers, such as animals, sports heroes, and scary places, will be making their 150+ book titles available to Pre-Kindergarten to 8th grade readers via an ... | ||
Why Children's Books Could Take Off On The Kindle Fire paidContent.org So it caught my eye recently when reading about next month's launch of the Kindle Fire that it is going to include a 1000-title (at launch) collection of children's books formatted especially for the Fire, including Carle's classic (among Hammock ... | ||
Barnes & Noble won't stock physical books that it can't also sell on its Nook ... Kansas City Star Barnes & Noble Inc. said Friday that its stores will not stock hard copies of 100 DC books that the Warner Bros.-owned unit is making available exclusively on Amazon.com's Kindle platform - a direct competitor of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader. ... | ||
Maurice on Books: 'The Marriage Plot' will be one of the 'it' books this year Naples Daily News We learn right away how she defines herself; through the books on her shelves. She is an incurably romantic English major specializing in Victorian studies. Her senior thesis is based on the marriage plot within the novel. Leonard is studying to be a ... | ||
Peg Tyre: Five books for selecting the best school for your child Washington Post (blog) Tyre spoke with Eve Gerber from The Browser about books she thinks will help parents “get smarter about education.” Tyre's descriptions of the books and the full interview are here. What criteria do you use in choosing a school for your child? ... | ||
Packt's Online Digital Book Library Now has Over 640 Books San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Furthermore, for those who have a subscription to access eBooks on PacktLib, subscribers will receive a complimentary eBook download of their choice for each month they are subscribed. Packt is a modern, unique publishing company with a focus on ... | ||
Hard Choices: Do Libraries Really Destroy Books? NPR (blog) Maybe finding a home for every library book would require a loving book detective to find the granddaughters of authors who know their grandpas from pictures. It's too much to ask, I know. But hey — let me know if you're thinking about pulping a copy ... | ||
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The Amazon Publishing “Premium”: $100000? MocoNews Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing's general trade imprint, headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, reportedly paid $850000 for Laverne and Shirley star Penny Marshall's memoir at auction—about $100000 more than the next highest bid. ... | ||
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With More Than 100 Publishing Partnerships Now in Place, AcademicPub Moves to ... MarketWatch (press release) Both announcements were made by Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of SharedBook Inc. A newly inked AcademicPub partnership with Elsevier, along with recently signed deals with ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), Berghahn Books, ... | ||
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'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman On Digital Books: 'It's 'Performance Art' Death and Taxes ... Kindles and other digital book platforms has already changed the publishing industry, and shows no sign of slowing down. As the digitization of books continues unabated, there stand in harsh relief a few authors who continue to resist the trend, ... | ||
B&T, Gardner Books Team to Offer Blio Publishers Weekly Bob Jackson, commercial director of Gardners Books, said, "Blio is an exciting development in the fast moving world of digital publishing and Gardners Books is delighted to bring this new software to publishers in the UK. The association with Baker ... | ||
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Virgin Books Revives WH Allen Imprint Booktrade.info Acquired in 1939 by journalist and writer Mark Goulden, it was the second publishing house after Penguin to use the mass-market paperback format and had a stable of authors that included Richard Nixon, General George Patton, Desmond Morris, ... | ||
GENWI Raises $4 Million From Nexus Venture Partners in Series A Funding MarketWatch (press release) Offering one of the easiest and yet extremely powerful cloud-based platforms for publishing content on Tablets and Smartphones, GENWI has created and is actively managing over 1500 apps for thousands of publishers. As opposed to custom building apps ... | ||
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There's Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books — The Book ... By Joel Friedlander So I suppose it's the rule that books about self-publishing that are self-published themselves look bad because the authors are attempting to follow the DIY (do-it-yourself) route to show just how easy it is to publish a book. And maybe that's the ... The Book Designer | ||
Urtak's new publishing tool creates collaborative online polling - The ... By Courtney Boyd Myers Urtak is a publisher polling tool that has been a few years in the making by two Harvard gents, Aaron Gibralter and Mark Lizoain, who are now fully immersed in New York City's TechStars accelerator program. The Next Web | ||
Books Acquired, 10.11.2011 | biblioklept By Biblioklept (On a side note, said bookstore was robbed this week for cash—no books were stolen). 20111011-180425.jpg. I found Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles somewhat randomly, hunting through the “Co”s for something by Dennis Cooper. ... biblioklept | ||
101 Books FAQ | 101 Books By Robert And since I've been meaning to do this for a while, I thought now would be a great time to write a 101Books FAQ–many of which are questions I've been asked, some of which are questions I ask myself when I interview myself. You don't do ... 101 Books | ||
R related books: Traditional vs online publishing | (R news & tutorials) By mages How many R related books have been published so far? Who is the most popular publisher? How many other manuals, tutorials and books have been published online? Let's find out. A few years ago I used the publication list on r-project.org ... R-bloggers | ||
The Book Bench: In the News: Brave Books, Bartleby's Lessons ... By Alexia Nader The Italian author Roberto Saviano, who went into hiding from the mafia after the release of his book. The Book Bench | ||
Traci Nobles, Anthony Weiner Sextee, Is Publishing a Book - New ... By Rosie Gray Traci Nobles, the cheerleading coach from Georgia who is one of Anthony Weiner's former sexting partners, is publishing a... ... By Jen Doll. 1. Weinergate · Traci Nobles, Anthony Weiner Sextee, IsPublishing a Book. By Rosie Gray. 2 ... Runnin' Scared | ||
Another Bookstore Chain Pulls DC Books - Blog@Newsarama By Graeme McMillan Barnes & Noble is no longer the only bookstore chain overreacting to the DC Comics/Amazon Kindle Fire exclusive digital deal, with Books-A-Million following in its footsteps and pulling all 100 titles that will be made digitally available to Kindle Fire users exclusively from its shelves. Publishers Weekly quotes CEO Terrance Finley as explaining that the ... Hannibal: Digital publishing isn't the main issue here, it's the exclusivity. Amazon has been single-handedly trouncing the bookstore ... Blog@Newsarama | ||
Writing tools, Pt.1 - Why Authors Need iPads | Personal Branding ... By Roger Parker ... life and save a lot of time. Here are the top reasons I recommend iPads to authors and small business marketers: ... Mind maps make it easy to break big projects, like books, into a series of relatively simple writing, self-publishing, and social marketing tasks. Several mind ... If you're planning to write and distribute ebooks, marketing materials, and white papers on mobile platforms and ebook readers, it's essential that you gain first-hand experience reading on an iPad. Reading on an ... Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel |
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