Download the Books of Skyrim to Your iPad or Kindle
PC Magazine
By Natalie Shoemaker Is your house in Whiterun becoming overwhelmed with books you've collected across Skyrim? Can't quite bring yourself to stop the main quest line to just sit back with the "Biography of the Wolf Queen"? Well now there's a solution ...
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These new wine books go down easy
Washington Post
With the holidays approaching, it's time to recommend books to give the wine lovers on your list. Here are my top picks from among wine books released this year. “ The Drops of God 1 ” (Vertical, $15), by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto, ...
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'Fahrenheit 451' is released as e-book
Los Angeles Times
First published in 1953, "Fahrenheit 451" is a dystopia in which reading is banned and it is the job of firefighters to burn books. 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns. The irony of releasing an e-book edition of a novel ...
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Teacher's books touching others
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Dr. Thomas Crisp, 31, packs up his remaining boxes of picture books in September, a collection valued at $12000 - books that will be donated to teachers, schools, districts and organizations demonstrating a need and, or, a commitment to social justice, ...
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Local books: latest by Mary Daheim and Ann Rule
The Seattle Times
New in local books: a new Emma Lord mystery, a daughter writes her father's story, new true crime from Ann Rule and a study of George Gershwin by a University of Washington music professor.. ...
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Alberta authors devote cookbook to love of beans
Edmonton Journal
In recipe after recipe in their new cookbook, Spilling the Beans, co-authors Sue Duncan and Julie Van Rosendaal startle readers with ingenious ways to use dried beans, peas and lentils (along with myriad grains) in a distinctly un-beany manner. ...
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Should Literary Authors Self Publish? - GalleyCat
mediabistro.com
One of the best reasons reminded literary authors to consider working with the growing number of independent publishers in the literary market. Check it out: “The conversation about self-publishing too often ignores the role of independent publishing ...
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Books still a problem for students
Richland Chronicle
According to its website, Neebo offers "savings of up to 55 percent off the price of new books on every textbook rental and up to 25 percent on every used book purchase." Petri does not use eBooks as an alternative to hard-copy textbooks. ...
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How Will We Read: Children's Books?
Huffington Post
The Walker Books Group is one the world's largest employee-owned publishing companies, and it has a unique business model that includes more than one hundred and fifty authors and illustrators in its profit sharing. I recently interviewed Karen ...
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New Books: King blends history and fantasy in last book
TCPalm
By Stephen King Some of King's best books do double duty as doorstops and this one, at 849 pages, is no exception. But just try to read the first sentence ("I have never been what you'd call a crying man.") and not turn the page. ...
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Autography LLC and Tri Destiny Publishing Announce Partnership
PR Web (press release)
Tri Destiny's authors will exclusively use Autography's ebook signing technology for in person and online author events as well as major publishing conferences including RomFest 2012, where Tri Destiny Publishing will be giving a workshop on ...
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Publishing Technology Inks China Digital Access Pact
Publishers Weekly
Publishing Technology, an international publishing services and software development firm, has signed an agreement with the China National Publications Import and Export Corp. to provide digital access to CNPIEC's content to its more than 10000 Chinese ...
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The majesty of books
The Economist (blog)
First, it was Henry himself who stripped the English monasteries of their books, thus becoming the largest donor to the Old Royal Library whose riches are displayed here now for the first time. Second, it is the very nature of the book he holds to ...
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Movies based on books boost reads' popularity
LSU The Reveille
Movies based on books are a popular way for films to target a pre-existing audience. Vice President of Marketing for Rave Theatres Jeremy Devine said recent films like "Twilight," "Harry Potter" and the upcoming movie "Hunger Games" all appeal to the ...
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Mary Higgins Clark and Local Authors Excite Students to Read
Baristanet
Mary Higgins Clark may be the most famous of the authors to visit Watchung Elementary during the Read-a-Thon, but she's not alone. Several local authors and editors have been visiting classrooms to talk about working as writers and in thepublishing ...
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Add books to Canada's endangered species list
CanadianBusiness.com (blog)
Publishers and the authors they hire are also dependent on physical bookstores, which are drying up in favour of Star Wars Lego. As with the foreign ownership issue in telecommunications, this is another example of the government either being asleep at ...
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Christmas Shopping: Buy Books! | Rachelle Gardner
By Rachelle Gardner
And what better way to introduce people to new authors they might not have tried before? Of course, you could also ... And we want to keep encouraging people to read! If you'd rather give gift cards to let people choose their own books — here you go! A handy-dandy list of links. Just click to purchase... If you're new to publishing, please start here: How To Get Published. You may also want to watch this ...
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Food Politics » Books about food politics: quick reviews
By Marion
Books about food politics pour in. Here are some good ones: Susan George, Whose Crisis, Whose Future: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World. Polity 2010. Susan George has been writing about food crises for decades. I read her Food ...
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Surveying the Bestselling Books in Argentina and Chile | Publishing ...
By Andres Hax
Certainly people's reading habits cannot be directly equated with what they buy, a fact that is made even more stark by the emergence of e-books and online shopping, but it does offer us a glimpse at some major trends. In this, the first ongoing ...
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Where To Get Free Books For Your E-Reader - The Consumerist
By Phil Villarreal
When you lend out books, you receive credits that let you borrow. * Download public domain works. Sites such as Project Gutenberg and FeedBooks will hook you up with books that are free because they're old enough to fall under public domain or are offered freely by authors. * Hit the virtual library. Services such as Overdrive allow libraries to lend out wide selections of ebooks, letting you check them out for preset periods. How To Find Free E-Books And Reading Material For Your ...
The Consumerist |
Are These the Three E-Learning Books You Would Recommend ...
By tom
Back in the '80s there was a music magazine that published a list of desert island discs. People would write in and share the ten records they'd bring if they were stranded on an island. I used that list to find people who had similar tastes and ...
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Traditional publishing Cutting their own throats with DRM | LISNews:
By Blake
... Cutting their own throats with DRM. November 29, 2011 - 9:14am — Blake. Cutting their own throats. If the big six began selling ebooks without DRM, readers would at least be able to buy from other retailers and read their ebooks on whatever platform they wanted, thus eroding Amazon's monopoly position. But it's not clear that the folks in the boardrooms are agile enough to recognize the tar pit they've fallen into ... Books · Ebooks · Publishing · Share this LISNews Story Elsewhere...
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Charlie Stross on the Stupidity of the Publishing Companies
By J. Bradford DeLong
>Amazon has ruthlessly used its near monopoly of online sales to exert monopsony buying pressure against suppliers, forcing the likes of Holtzbrinck or Penguin or Hachette to give them a deep discount on ebooks…. [T]he Big Six's ...
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MG & YA Authors of Color Published in 2011
By Doret
This year I will be looking at all the books published by authors of color who are not Black and comparing the total of authors published to Elliott's list. 2 American Indian ... Wolf Mark by Joseph Bruchac (Tu publishing, Sept 15) 28 Asian authors ...
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Did you burn your old books? « The Deacon's Bench
By Deacon Greg Kandra
Tweet. What can you do with an old sacramentary? Here's one suggestion: Details: After the switch to a new Mass translation, old liturgical books should be respectfully buried, either intact or after being burned, according to the U.S. bishops. ...
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