Texas Book Festival Oct. 22-23 David Graeber video


KXAN.com - interview of David Graeber - "debt crisis in historical context"
The Texas Book Festival is bringing authors from around the world and an interesting mix of ideas.

Texas Book Festival October 22-23, 2011, State Capitol Building, Austin, TX  http://www.texasbookfestival.org/
Web-based Kindle format good for comics, kids' books
CNET
A move of this sort was inevitable as e-book publishing broadened beyond the initial text-centric focus. For example, Amazon is licensing rights to comic books, a natural fit for reading on tablets. That KF8 supports Web technologies isn't a great ...
Ex-president Jimmy Carter to pen 2 religious books
The Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter is authoring a pair of books for a Christian publisher. In one book, Carter will share life lessons culled from more than three decades of teaching Sunday school classes in Plains, Ga., and Washington, ...
Bezos, Amazon Changing Books Like Jobs, Apple Changed Music
International Business Times
Amazon is effectively the world's largest bookseller these days, of both physical books and ebooks. Amazon is also effectively the world's most broad forum for direct publishing, As Amazon finds growth with its new Kindle Fire tablet, that girth will ...
Books by the Banks features 100+ authors
Cincinnati.com
Previous years' posters - by John Maggard, Ryan Ostrander, CF Payne and Will Hillenbrand - are $10 each Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival started in 2007 primarily as a showcase for local and regional authors. ...
The Steve Jobs Reading List: The Books And Artists That Made The Man
Huffington Post
The books Jobs read, particularly as a teen and college student, helped expose him to the ideas and experiences that would serve as Apple's foundation years later. Walter Isaacson's 571-page biography of Jobs, a copy of which was purchased by The ...
Books: To End All Wars, by Adam Hochschild
Guelph Mercury
Popular writers of the day were paid by the government to write books and pamphlets favourable to the war effort. Books commissioned by the government were published by commercial publishers with the understanding that the government would buy all of ...
October Books Bring Vampires, Magic, and A Trip To Hell
io9
Plus: new books from Terry Pratchett, NK Jemisin, Vernor Vinge, and Richard K. Morgan! Here are some of the most exciting science fiction and fantasy books being published this month. Things are still bleak in the war against the vampires, ...
When Politicians Buy Their Own Books
New Yorker (blog)
According to the reports, Cain's campaign has been buying up copies of his own book from a company he owns, Herman Cain THE New Voice, which sells his books on its Web site. (Cain told Bloomberg that he didn't think he'd violated FEC regulations. ...
Man Booker Prize 2011: seven months to read 138 novels
Telegraph.co.uk
Each imprint is only allowed to send in two books, but – a new rule this year – previously shortlisted authors gain automatic entry. None of us can disclose what has been submitted. For the first time, judges were to be given Kindles on which to read ...
Books: The Little Shadows, by Marina Endicott
Guelph Mercury
And then there are authors whose next work you await eagerly from the moment you finish the last page of their most recent work. The latter situation was the case for me with Marina Endicott. A friend had strongly recommended her 2008 novel, ...
Lloyds upset about books, movie on killer Williams
Trentonian
But don't expect him to read the books. "I haven't been in the same room with either book and that's the way I'm going to keep it," he said. "How many more are going to come out? "It all seems to be public information. You can read thousands and ...
9 Essential Geek Books You Must Read Right Now
Wired News
The problem with making a list is that you need to set limits. The limits here are: nine books, no duplicate authors, none written by people employed in this building. Peace at home trumps all. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide.
Books Are Fun book fair scheduled at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
Red Bluff Daily News
Time Life, Simon & Schuster, Dorling Kindersley, Harper-Collins, Penguin, Random House, Reader's Digest, Rodale, Disney, Publication's International, Thomas Nelson, Peachtree Publishing and many more!
WestBow Press Helps First-Time Author Realize Publishing Dream
PR Web (press release)
Through this partnership, authors benefit from the rich publishing heritage of Thomas Nelson and the speed-to-market advantages of the ASI self-publishing model. Titles published through WestBow Press are evaluated for sales potential and considered ...
Blurb launches eBook publishing service
British Journal of Photography
The new service lets authors automatically convert their books into eBooks by using Blurb's Bookify and BookSmart software. "Moreover any book previously created with these tools can now be produced as an ebook, automatically, with a click of a button ...
Books and a Bit of Bangkok
The Sag Harbor Express
The authors she's chosen for this first session were all groundbreaking in some way. “I tried to span the second part of the 21 st century looking for short stories by people who aren't thought of as short story authors, like Roald Dahl,” she said. ...
Books by teen spy author Robert Muchamore banned at Highgate School
London24
Robert Muchamore, 38, the Crouch End-based author of the Cherub series of books for 11 to 15-year-olds, was set to give a reading at the school in Bishopswood Road this month after being invited by a school librarian. But before he could give the ...
Changes In the Publishing Industry
By Daniel Scocco
For one thing you now have ebooks and authors that self-publish their work and promote it themselves, mostly on the Internet. Instead of ... Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a ...
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GOOD Books: Get Healthy - Culture - GOOD
By Nina Lincoff
Even if you're not participating in our "get healthy" challenge, get inspired by others' stories about eating, moving, relaxing, and detoxing.
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FLOSS Manuals books published after three-day sprint - O'Reilly ...
By Andy Oram
After dinner we started publishing our books. The new publication process at FLOSS Manuals loads the books not only to the FLOSS Manuals main page but to Lulu for purchase. Publishing books at doc sprint. Joining the pilgrimage that all ...
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Editor Interview: Carol Hinz, from Lerner Publishing Group | There's ...
By the1stdaughter
Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you a behind-the-scenes look into the life of an editor at a major publishing house, with Carol Hinz from Lerner Publishing Group. ... -How much of the day is spent communicating about various aspects of the books—with authors, illustrators, photographers, agents, as well as in-house colleagues—but not actually editing. -Just because children's books are short, that doesn't mean they're easy! 7. Of all the books you've edited, which has been ...
There's A Book
Will e-books take over 80% of narrative text sales? | TeleRead ...
By Chris Meadows
A week ago, Mike Shatzkin wrote that he foresees a digital future in which e-books have an 80% market share (by units sold, not revenue) of narrative text, and. ... 2011 | 2:43 pm. Posted in: books, Chris Meadows, ebook, publishing. Tags: books, e-book, market share, Mike Shatzkin, publishing.... "There's always a catch : self published authors can and do earn higher royalties off of ebooks, but then again, because they're self published consumers ..." Goldman on "Self-publishing ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Amazon's Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms
By Adrian Covert
And on platforms the Kindle Fire, iOS, Android and PCs this means e-books won't look like they were spewed forth from the Web 1.0 gods. And obviously improved image handling means ComicBooks have a home under Amazon's roof. ...
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CodexCloud Lets You Store And Read your eBooks Anywhere
By Zainab
CodexCloud is a web app that intelligently recommends new e-books for you to read, and lets you search, upload and catalog your entire library. It allows you.
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