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 ...
Purchase Featured Books
NPR
Joan Didion shares frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. ...
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Books just for the kids
The Bay of Plenty Times
by Fleur Beale, Random House, $19.99 The book is about when a girl named Juno and her family move to New Plymouth. Juno's family move there to keep a 2-year-old girl called Hera safe. Hera is Juno's little sister. When it's all safe, something bad ...
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Books help disaster victims turn a new page in life
The Daily Yomiuri
Disaster victims must have a range of feelings about books. Some may wish to replace books that were swept away in the tsunami, and others may seek solace, inspiration or escape by readingbooks such as travelogues. An annual festival called Book Week ...
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Music books riff on the glory days, the grunge and the gossip
New York Daily News
Various books have studied and segregated key NYC movements of the time — from punk (“Please Kill Me”) to hip hop (“Can't Stop, Won't Stop”), to disco (“Love Saves the Day”). But those just pulled at the strands of the era. Will Hermes' is the first ...
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Authors say book already is in third printing
Rapid City Journal
Milo Dailey/BCP staff - Don and Becky Hardy told stories of work together for six years on Don's biography of Wyoming Sen. Al Simpson. Don described the book as a portrait of the Wyoming Republican he served in the US Senate rather than a puff piece to ...
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Former Gov. Granholm to sign copies of new book today
Detroit Free Press
Jennifer Granholm is expected to join other authors selling and signing books at the Michigan International Books Festival. WXYZ-TV reports that the event runs today from noon until 5 pm at Laurel Park Place in Livonia, west of Detroit. ...
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Steve Martin to publish books about his tweets
Herald Sun
The funnyman is gathering his "tweets" and publishing them together in a book called The Ten, Make that Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make that Ten. Martin announced the news in a post on Twitter and revealed the project would raise funds for ...
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REGION: Local authors turn out memoirs, self-help books, more
North County Times
How Women Entrepreneurs Dive Into Success" (Big Fish Publishing, $15), an inspirational guide to women in the business world. Lia Fairchild of Murrieta contributed the short story "Homeless" to the anthology "With Love" (Amazon Digital Services, ...
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Books-A-Million begins opening at former Borders sites
New Hampshire Business Review
As part of a move to expand its New England footprint, Alabama-based Books-A-Million recently opened its first New Hampshire store and will open two more by the end of this week. Books-A-Million had a soft opening of its first Granite State location on ...
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From Haggadah to Harry: Big range of books in Jewish Book Festival
Brighton-Pittsford Post
By L. David Wheeler, staff writer Now in its 19th year, the Lane Dworkin Rochester Jewish Book Festival presents a diverse offering of books by Jewish authors to the community. And that meansbooks of all sorts, with subject matter ranging from ...
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Stephen Henderson: Help get young minds into books
Detroit Free Press
But my mother had to open up those possibilities for me, by filling the house with books and pushing me toward them. Eventually, it was what I wanted to do. With my own kids, the cycle repeats. It's hard to imagine how that would work, though, ...
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Reviews: Five books praising God, Allah and heretics, too
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Star-Ledger Entertainment Desk In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, the Western world experienced a spike in interest in Islam. In 2008, Ziauddin Sardar, a cultural critic, started a blog in which he considered the Quran in light of its contemporary ...
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£295000 owed on late books to North libraries
Sunday Sun
BOOKWORMS hogging library books have racked up more than a quarter of a million pounds in overdue fines. From crime fiction to children's favourites, North libraries are owed some £295501 by borrowers failing to bring the books back. ...
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AMA Foundation Announces 2011 Best Books in Marketing
PR Web (press release)
Readers who “bundle” these two books will find a useful synergy between the strategic-level discussion of Strategy from the Outside In and the nuts-and-bolts accountability of Data-Driven Marketing. The American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF) ...
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10 Marketing Books You Can't Live Without
By Ivana Taylor
List of books about marketing that Small Business Trends book Editors would bring on a desert island. Find out ... If you had room for just 10 marketing books in your survival kit for that desert island, the 10 books below would be a good start. ...
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net
By Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer bio ↓ · October 30th, 2011 · filed under books, Homepage Feature. It was a good week at Rumpus Books. Come see what you might've missed. Everything Tastes Better When It's Precious — Gina Myers reviews The Hermit, ...
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Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #13 — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Self- Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #13 featurning Julie Isaac, Dan Blank, Suzanna Stinnett and 20 more authors. ... We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self- publishing, book design or marketing books. ... Julie Isaac presents The new low priced Kindles, including the Kindle Fire color tablet, are going to mean higher ebook sales, so start writing your ebooks NOW! posted at WritingSpirit, saying, “This is an exciting time for writers, and it just keeps getting ...
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Oprah Loves Us « Baltimore Books
By csollod
... change my life in any significant way. I'm not sure things like that do. They are mostly just nice blips and I just keep writing the kind of books I want to write.” Yes, but Oprah loves you, Michael. That's got to feel good. Filed in: Baltimore authors. ... She moved to Baltimore after 17 years in big house publishing in New York, and has been rediscovering her love for literature, as opposed to her love for the business of publishing literature, while writing about Baltimore writers, books, and ...
Baltimore Books
Kobo makes a move into digital publishing
Globe and Mail
If the new e-publishers make good on their promise, he added, “conventional publishers will need to look hard at how they treat authors and how they compete in the digital market.” Kobo is promising to emulate Amazon by offering full publishing ...
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Much Needed Recognition for Ebooks
Good E-Reader (blog)
For now, Nielsen will be gathering these sales numbers from four of the largest ebook outlets, Amazon, Apple's bookstore, Barnes&Noble, and Google Books, which is an added incentive to self-published authors to make sure their ebooks are compatible and ...
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Authors to meet US troops on USO tour to Persian Gulf
The Virginian-Pilot
"And a lot of them read my books." The donation-based United Service Organizations has been entertaining US troops abroad since World War II, usually with musicians and comedians - who in recent years included Jon Stewart and Robin Williams. ...
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Books In Brief
The Sudbury Star
By YVONNE CRITTENDEN By James Lee Burke James Lee Burke's 30th novel takes up the story of one of his most popular characters -- Sheriff Hackberry Holland of Texas -- in this tale of revenge and redemption. A Native American called Davy Boy Lorca ...
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In battle of the books, ebooks are victorious
The Simmons Voice
Print books are a part of our everyday life. Whether for research or fun, we are constantly turning pages to get the information we need or to unveil a story. Although print books are extremely helpful multifarious, there always seems to be a problem ...
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Kindle Format 8 with HTML5 support
iProgrammer
Kindle Format 8 (KF8) is Amazon's new format for eBooks on the Kindle Fire, designed to provide the layout elements needed for picture books, comics, cookery books and technical books. KF8 replaces Mobi 7 and adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, ...
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Kids can address fear via Halloween books
UPI.com
Phil Nel, director of Kansas State University's graduate program in children's literature, said many might think having kids read scary stories sounds like a recipe for nightmares, but many of thesebooks can help kids confront their fears. ...
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Hyperink publishes eBooks based on search data | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
In addition to publishing books based on search data, Hyperink is also welcoming pitches from aspiring authors, promising design, editing and marketing services in exchange for 50% of the royalties. So, if you're an aspiring author who's keen ...
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New Kids Books are a hit | Illinois Outdoors
By Don Dziedzina
At the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writes fall conference one of our members provided me with a copy of these three children's books. I have to say they're right on target and can be of great interest to young readers. But who am I to ...
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A Passion for Books | American Catholic Blog
By Mary Carol Kendzia
... off with you to Frankfurt, I say. There you will find a dedication to the printed page that proves, even with the welcome and inevitable presence of electronic media into the publishing realm, bookswill have a place in the pantheon of reader choices for a long time to come. ... For many overseas publishers, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia, it's easier to license rights to a book and translate the content than to find authors and develop a book from scratch. With over 300 titles in our ...
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Self-Publishing Review | Blog | Library eBooks: Is the eBook ...
By James Moushon
Library eBooks: Is the eBook Ecosystem Affected by the Amazon Library Lending Process? My usual blogging direction is toward the ebook author and the self- publishing world. ... Even the authorswho create the content have little say. .... by James MoushonTags: Amazon, bobbi newman, Call Off the Dogs, e- books, Indie publishing, Kindle, Kindle Library Lending, library, library checkout limits, maximizing library returns, privacy, sarah houghton, smashwords, traditional publishing ...
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Children's authors coming to Burlington | The Boone Blog
By ssalmons
BURLINGTON – Two children's authors, Keiko Kasza and Ingrid Law, will be visiting the Boone County Public Library's Main branch, 1786 Burlington Pike, during an author reception 6-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4. Book sales will be offered through the Blue Marble Book Store and authors ... Kasza has published 14 books, some of her other titles are A Mother for Choco, My Lucky Day, The Pig's Picnic and When the Elephant Walks. Law was born in northern New York near Lake Champlain. ...
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