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Old books can be put to use
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
What do you do with gently used books you no longer want — or simply don't have room for? First of all, take a hard look at your books. Just because you love your books doesn't mean they are still useful. Even though you think fondly of your Aunt ...
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Seven great books to give
MiamiHerald.com
Here are a few of the season's best gift books. • Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, Bob McCabe; Harper Design, $75: Seven books, eight movies and a theme park — you're not sick of Harry Potter yet, are you, Muggle? Good. ...
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REVIEW: 25 Books Every Christian Should Read from Renovaré
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Doh . . . all nine of the contemporary authors are white and Anne Lamott is the lone women. I did not go through and check out the backgrounds of all the contributors or the editorial board, nor did I check to see under what publishing banner they all ...
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Maine publisher auctions books to help needy
NECN
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — A Maine book publisher is going to bat in the fight against hunger with an online auction featuring signed copies of books by some of Maine's best-known authors. Islandport Press's Online Literary Auction to Fight Hunger kicks ...
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Michele Bachmann signs books in West Des Moines
DesMoinesRegister.com
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sold plenty of books at a Christian store here Saturday night. But, more importantly, she met plenty of voters. Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, is crisscrossing Iowa this weekend signing her campaign ...
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Penguin suspends e-books for libraries, citing security issues
TheChronicleHerald.ca
For non-Kindle users, the policy does not affect e-books already on library catalogues. Penguin's authors include Patricia Cornwell, Ken Follett and Ron Chernow, and new books include Sue Grafton's V for Vengeance. The publisher did not cite any ...
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Holiday books roundup: More stories from readers
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Now over four decades and 45 diaries later, I continue to write in my books. Sometimes pages are too painful to read, other times they bring fond memories and laughter. There are births and deaths, weddings and divorces, romances and lost love, ...
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Holiday books are perennial favorites
The Somerville News
By Kenneth Gloss Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the obvious perennial favorite for holiday books. However, many people might not realize that holiday-themed items can be exciting and rewarding choices, simply because there is a plethora of ...
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Modesto area kids in no rush to switch to e-books
Modesto Bee
By Nan Austin Tablets and e-readers topped many a Black Friday shopping list, but for tiny hands the hands-down favorite readers are old-school: books. Deb Vaughn, a teacher at Catherine Everett Elementary School in Modesto, said her gifts to children...
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Why E-books Suck and Real Books are Awesome
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Whoever decided “no let's not print books anymore, let's just put them in a digital format and suck the fun out of everything” is a killjoy. And, if any of you environmentalists come at me thinking you'll convince me, “well, electronic publishing...
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Books full of festive ideas
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
By Betty Himes Books & More — It's really time to be getting ready for the holidays. Halloween was not the time, although I admit that the years when I began addressing my cards in October and sent them by Thanksgiving netted a bigger return of ...
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Kolkata tops in books donation for poor
indiablooms
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IBNS): More than a million books have been collected nationally, of which, children of Kolkata alone have donated over 1.5 lakh books for the 'Aviva Great Wall of Education' with the aim to helping underprivileged children for their ...
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Books take a close look at Walmart, the world's biggest retailer
The Boston Globe
By Katharine Whittemore Reading books about Walmart is a true whiplash experience. It's had such bad press you're set to hate it. Then you learn it's the world's biggest seller of organic milk and cotton, sustaining thousands of forward-thinking ...
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Outdoors books make good gifts
Charleston Gazette
By Scott Shalaway Fall is a busy season for publishers of nature and outdoor-themed books. They make perfect Christmas gifts. Here are some recent titles I recommend for the readers on your list. "Carnivores of the World" by Luke Hunter (2111, ...
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Shopping locally? Local sellers feature area authors
Fall River Herald News
Hall has the local authors' books displayed in a section just inside the door of Partner's book shop. There are children's books with beautiful water color illustrations, like “The Goat Lady” by Janet Bregoli about a woman who lived on Chase Road in ...
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Picture books hook the eye
San Antonio Express
Two books celebrate two of the greatest gals ever: Judy Garland and Lucille Ball. John Fricke's “Judy” (Running Press, $30) celebrates “a legendary film career,” which lasted, surprisingly, from 1936 to 1963, while Elisabeth Edwards' “I Love Lucy” ...
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California Authors Series: 'What Then Must We Do?'
Sacramento Bee
By Dale Maharidge I saw Sacramento for the first time in January 1979, when I was a struggling 22-year-old writer. I'd driven out from Ohio and had no money for a hotel. At dusk, on Highway 99 north of Lodi, I spotted a break in the freeway fence. ...
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Amazon e-books plagued by international surcharges, lack of ...
By Chris Meadows
The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing has a piece by an indie publisher, looking at Amazon's 99-cent e-book pricing, and explaining to writers who price their e-books that way how far from universally available that pricing actually is. It starts by ...
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Best Motivational Books For Small Businesses
By Ivana Taylor
Several books have been written about Steve Jobs since the onset of his illness and recent passing. It's almost as if authors were trying to grab every ounce of learning, inspiration and motivation from a man that many call a genius but who ...
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BPS Research Digest: Psychology books of the year 2011
By Christian Jarrett
The season has arrived when newspapers, magazines and bookshops publish their "books of the year" lists. The Digest has digested these for you, picking out the psychology books getting a mention: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and ...
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Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #14 — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Featured Posts. blogs for self-publisher Mark Coker presents Pricing Strategies for Ebooks posted at The Savvy Book Marketer, saying, “There's not a single secret magic price point that's most effective for ebooks. Some authors fixate on ... Lindsay Buroker presents Can Publishing a Podiobook Help You Sell More Books? posted at Lindsay Buroker — Fantasy Author, saying, “I'm publishing a free audio version of my first novel. Is it helping with book sales? Come find out. :) .” blogs for ...
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ICv2 - Ed West on Books Expected to Decline Projection
Ed West, an editor in the book publishing field, from Garden City, Michigan read the recent article about Barnes & Noble projecting that industry-wide sales of print books are expected to decline (see "Books Expected to Decline by One Third") ...
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Homes Are Where the Books Are
By Timothy Hallinan
I read anything I could get my hands on, but the first books I owned personally were Oz books. Beginning in third grade, once a month when I got my allowance, I would walk through the woods (remember woods?) to a department store ...
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Maine publisher auctions books to help needy — Maine Living ...
By The Associated Press
YARMOUTH, Maine — A Maine book publisher is going to bat in the fight against hunger with an online auction featuring signed copies of books by some of Maine's best-known authors. Islandport Press's Online Literary Auction to Fight ...
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