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Gift Guide: Books on Cocktails
Wall Street Journal
Now that everyone has tiny computers in their pockets, you'd think that it would be a really, really bad time to be printing cocktail books. After all, the iTunes store is rife with dozens of useful apps for both aspiring and accomplished cocktailians. ...
Lanier Publishing Launches a New Best Of Inns and Bed and Breakfast Blog Series
MarketWatch (press release)
PETALUMA, Calif., Nov 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today Lanier Publishing International announced the launch of its Best Of Inns and Bed and Breakfasts blog series, offering unique insights, local travel guides, intimate tips and mouth-watering recipes ...
Gift Guide: Best Wine Books
Wall Street Journal
By LETTIE TEAGUE There are hundreds of millions of wines in the world and seemingly as many types of wine books. There are texts for beginners, picture books of vineyards and wineries (and even winery dogs), innumerable guides to specific wine regions ...
Books of the Year 2011: Fiction
Telegraph.co.uk
In a year of fruitful reading Keith Miller has enjoyed cerebral offerings from American authors, the mellowing of a French firebrand, some terrific local talent and a European novel that happens to be written in English. By Keith Miller Whether or not ...
Ann Patchett opens Nashville bookstore as other stores close
Christian Science Monitor
By Molly Driscoll / November 18, 2011 "This is the way bookstores used to be," says author Ann Patchett says of newly opened Parnassus Books. "This is the bookstore of my childhood." Novelist Ann Patchett, best known for her books “Bel Canto” and the ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: Twin Sightings
New York Times (blog)
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES The ever-imaginative writer Alan Moore pulls off a nice trick this week as his “Neonomicon,” illustrated by Jacen Burrows, arrives on the hardcover and softcover graphic novels list. The tale, about two FBI officers ...
E-books fail to charm Finns
YLE News
No precise statistics are available, but sales of e-books fail to make up even one percent of the domestic book market. Publishing Manager Fredrik Rahka of the publisher Otava says that three requirements have to be met before sales figures will rise. ...
Ancient books, modern ideas
The Wenatchee World Online
WALLA WALLA — Tucked among the volumes of history literature at Walla Walla University is a recently acquired collection of rare books that date back hundreds of years. The works are by Erasmus of Rotterdam, a philologist, Catholic priest and ...
Gift Guide: Books on Movies
Wall Street Journal
By SCOTT EYMAN Movie stars tend to fit into two opposite camps: those whose screen characters had a basic congruence with their off-screen personalities (Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster) and those who could play it but could never be it (Cary ...
Books of the Year 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
In a year of grandiloquent books on the broad canvass of war, Peter Englund's The Beauty and the Sorrow (Profile, £25) is a refreshing reminder of the reality. The anthology of letters and diary entries – 1914 to 1918 – puts the strategic decisions ...
Children's books publishers try to divine the future
Xinhua
18 (Xinhuanet) -- Representatives of more than 20 Chinese children's books publishing houses met with their foreign counterparts to examine market trends, such as e-books and international cooperation, at a seminar in Beijing recently. ...
Kaplan closes trade book group, leaves authors hanging
CBS News
It's a snapshot of how badly publishing houses can be at business and why so many authors will ultimately look for other ways -- like ebooks -- to get to a reading audience. Dr. Yvonne Thornton is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and clinical ...
Authors Guild Threatens Amazon For Daring To Allow Library Lending Of Ebooks
Techdirt
Any new technology or innovation that comes along, the Authors Guild reflexively freaks out about it. Full text search to help you find books you might want to buy? Not allowed. Letting ebook readers use crappy text-to-speech to read aloud? ...
Perfumes, two books say, have not lost ability to attract
Manila Bulletin
Both of these books make you want to run to a perfume counter and test your impressions against the authors' romantic rhapsodies. At the Annick Goutal boutique at Bergdorf Goodman, the perfumer will give you his card to help you track your floral ...
Tablet application for assessment books launched
Channel News Asia
This is the sixth year that Popular is co-publishing books with MediaCorp. Titles published over the last few years included the bilingual "Heirloom Recipes" and "CEO: Face to Face", a compilation of interviews with 26 CEOs of local companies, ...
Christmas Books 2011: Biography
Telegraph.co.uk
Dickens himself believed that “the life of almost anyone possessing great gifts would be a sad book to himself”, and these are sad books. They confirm the dismaying spectacle, Tomalin writes, of “a man famous for his goodness and his attachment to ...
Sea Lion Books Announces Chris Marks' "Elfhunter"
The Outhouse
This internationally beloved fantasy writer now leaves the ranks of independent publishing to join the team at Sea Lion Books with pleasure and pride. She shares her Indiana home with husband Jeff, a dozen friendly dogs, three horses, and a couple of ...
Famous Authors' Harshest Rejection Letters
The Atlantic
By Romy Oltuski It's hard to imagine that the definitive icons of literature could have been subject to the same iciness of the high-gated publishing-house "no" machines that we know all too well. Of course, even down-to-earth publishers can miss a ...
SL library pays more for e-books than for print
Deseret News
By Joey Ferguson, Deseret News With e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook, becoming more popular, the Salt Lake Public Library is supplementing its print collections with 5253 e-books. With more than 16000 checkouts since December ...
Atlantic Books Closing in Delaware
WBOC TV 16
Atlantic Books is going out of business after more than 30 years. The chain will close stores in Dover, Rehoboth and Bethany Beach. Customers will now be left looking for other places to buy their books. Atlantic Books is the last major bookstore in ...
Publishing Briefs: Imagem Signs Elvis Presley Agreement, Zappa Family Trust ...
Billboard.biz
By Ed Christman, New York Imagem Music USA has signed a worldwide music administration agreement with Elvis Presley Music/Gladys Music catalog, co-owned by the Elvis Presley Enterprises and the families of the late publishing executives, ...
About Books: Former Canton resident writes travel and history book
Canton Repository
Priced at $23.42 through Amazon.com, Horton's “Small Towns, Country Roads, and Autumn Leaves” is available at other prices at Books & Things at Meyers Lake Plaza, the Hallmark Gift Shop in Louisville, and The Village Bookshelf and Backlist Books in ...
On the Future of Books: A Discussion with Seth Godin :zenhabits
By Leo
Today I share a conversation I had with best-selling author, blogger and publisher Seth Godin on the future of books, publishing and blogging. ... How Seth's Domino Project deals with unsolicited requests from authors; How the Domino Project planned to transform everything about publishing; How he eliminated cover images, shortened books, eliminated advances, and what he learned ... 18, 2011) I'll be hold a free webinar at 2 pm Pacific, 5 pm Eastern on the topic of ebooks. ...
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Martyn Lyons - Books: A Living History | Selectism.com
By Jason Dike
Here's a look at Martyn Lyons' Books - A Living History. Published by Magma.
Selectism.com
A Brilliant List of Science Books for People Who Want Their Minds ...
By Annalee Newitz
That's why we've put together this list of great science books that came out in the past year — they're the perfect gifts for people with inquiring minds (including you!). A Brilliant List of ScienceBooks for People Who Want Their Minds Blown ...
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At Occupy Cal: Let books take the place of banned tents | Berkeleyside
By Tracey Taylor
Replacing the tents we have — fittingly enough for a storied institution of learning — books, or ratherbooks made to look like tents. Symbolic perhaps, but making a point nonetheless. Thanks to Arturo Snuze for the photograph which was ...
Berkeleyside
GOOD Books: What to Read Instead of Twilight - Culture - GOOD
By Jillian Anthony
Recommendations for young adult fiction with tantalizing story lines and characters that have real personality and values.
GOOD
Self-Publishing, or, Boxes of Books Blight My Basement by Susan ...
By Joel Friedlander
Self-Publishing, or, “Boxes of Books Blight My Basement” by Susan Ross in which the children's book author describes her printing adventures. ... He's also the proprietor of Marin Bookworks, where he helps publishers and authors who decide to publish get to market on time and on budget withbooks that are both properly constructed and beautiful to read. Like this post? Subscribe via RSS or E-Mail to get updated with all of the latest content from The Book Designer. Cancel reply ...
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Penguin Launches Rip-Off Self-Publishing “Service” Targeting ...
By davidgaughran
Book Country launched in April this year as an online writing community where authors can read and review each other's work and receive advice from publishing professionals. At BEA in July, .... Under her photo, it says she sold over a million copies of her ebooks, as if she is a typical case of what would happen if you *did* use Book Country. Such a shame .... If you had published your booksthrough Penguin, they would have taken THOUSANDS off you – for no good reason. Reply ...
David Gaughran
New platform for renting ebooks | TeleRead: News and views on e ...
By Paul Biba
Nubook, the leading developer of eBook reading applications, now offers digital books rental to hispublishing partners. As a result of developments over the last months, the ebook rental now adds to the Nubook platform services. Publishers ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Discover And Read Free E-books Online With Litfy
By Zainab
You can browse the categories on the site, or search for specific books or authors. In addition to that, you can also find reviews on books, and if you can't find one, you can write one yourself. The website has an uncluttered, slick interface, and ...
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Killer Fiction: Self-publishing Number Breakdown
By Gemma Halliday
I first started putting my books up for sale myself through Amazon's KDP program in May 2010. At that time, Amazon was really the only big player around for self-publishing ebooks. Which meant they had the market cornered, so all of my sales ...
Killer Fiction


Natalie Wood book authors' roots go back to NJ
San Francisco Chronicle
The co-authors of a book about actress Natalie Wood's death can trace their roots back to southern New Jersey. Marti Rulli writes that she and Dennis Davern met through family connections when both lived in Burlington County. ...
Books: Local
Cincinnati.com
Little Miami Publishing, $28. Book signing 11 am-3 pm Nov. 26 at Little Miami Publishing, 19 Water St., Milford. “Flower Girl World” series by Cincinnati native Lynelle Kerstine Woolley. “Camellia the Fabulous Flower Girl,” Markelle Media, $16.99; ...
Authors on their work
San Jose Mercury News
By Bruce Manuel Four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ford is remembered for classic Westerns such as "Stagecoach," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "The Searchers," as well as family sagas such as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "How Green Was My ...
Holiday books for young readers
Winston-Salem Journal
"You Be You," by Linda Kranz, Taylor Publishing, all ages, $12.95. "Blowin' in the Wind," by Bob Dylan, Sterling, all ages, $17.95, CD included. "Bob Marley's One Love," adapted by Cedella Marley, Chronicle, ages 4 to 8, $16.99. ...
Find Good Books to Read at the New Chicago Book Expo 2011
Examiner.com
How would you like the opportunity to browse some new books from some good, rising authors in your Chicago city area? With the Chicago Book Expo this November in 2011, you can! The recently announced Chicago Book Expo is a popular event hosted by the ...
How to Load eBooks on the Amazon Kindle Fire, by Piotr Kowalczyk ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT| ... One of the main reasons why this program is great is because you can easily edit books you download from the internet. Many booksyou commonly download have no cover art or the title/author ... on your Kindle Fire · Is Amazon Prime lending a threat to authors and publishers? Kindle Fire could fragment Android development. ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
The Future Of Books And Publishing | The Creative Penn
By joanna@TheCreativePenn.com (Joanna Penn)
It's primarily a marketing blog and podcast but also talks a lot about new media, publishing and Mitch interviews a lot of authors of business books. It's not usually aimed at writers but this episode is a definite must-listen podcast for those of you ...
The Creative Penn
Sunday Book Market at Koti – Hyderabad Books | Learning a ...
By Admin
Sunday Book Market at Koti – Hyderabad Books. Article by Pranay Rupani. There are times when you may want to acquire second-hand books in Hyderabad. Not just for the discounted rates, but also in expectation of serendipity. Who knows? ...
Learning a Foreign Language
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net
By Seth Fischer
It was one hell of a week at Rumpus Books. Come see what you missed. The Rats Are Not Doing Well — Anya Groner reviews Gerald Fleming's second poetry collection Night of Pure Breathing. The Singing Caryatids of Modern Moscow ...
The Rumpus.net
Kids Book Review: Guest Post: Publishing a Book at 10 Years of Age
By Tania McCartney
Guest Post: Publishing a Book at 10 Years of Age. KBR warmly welcomes our very first 10-year-old guest poster - writing under the pen name Skye Lotus. ... When my dad found a publisher he was interested in, we submitted my book. After at least one or two rejections and a lot of editing, SmashWords, a site that publishes books to different booksellers, such as Apple, Diesel and Barnes and Nobel, accepted my book. My favourite books are Deltora ... full listing of featured authors ...
Kids Book Review
Free movies, free books: what is Amazon up to? « SeekerBlog
By Steve Darden
David Pogue studies the just-announced Amazon ebooks strategy: (…) There has to be some master plan, because ... And sure enough, Amazon says that these free Kindle books aren't really free. It's paying publishers for the right to distribute ...
SeekerBlog
The Kill Zone: How to Eat the Publishing Elephant
By James Scott Bell
... the elephant. Because a real writer never stops. Happy eating, friends. Posted by James Scott Bell at 12:01 AM. Labels: amazon, how to write successfully, indie authors, Kensington, kindle, selfpublishing, starbucks, Writer's Digest Books ...
The Kill Zone

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