Thoughts on ebooks triggered by the appointment of Andrew Savikas as CEO of Safari Books Online.... O'Reilly Radar We wanted reading to remain as open as it did when printed books ruled the publishing world. When the web took off, we thought that battle had largely been won. But the new world of dedicated e-reading devices with proprietary formats has brought back ... | ||
Where do Deepak Chopra's publishing affections lie? Los Angeles Times (blog) Publishers Weekly reports that Random House responded in a release stressing that Deepak Chopra "has had several publishers simultaneously throughout his career" and that Crown has "multiple future books of his under contract." Amazon Publishing is ... | ||
Mulholland Books pulls 'Assassin of Secrets' over copied passages Los Angeles Times (blog) In the statement from Little, Brown, Pietch said, "We take great pride in the writers and books we publish and tremendous care in every aspect of our publishing process, so it is with deep regret that we have published a book that we can no longer ... | ||
Book stores resell for Google The Australian The new store will allow Australian authors and publishers to exercise local digital rights and profit from selling electronic versions of their works to an Australian audience. Mark Tanner, e-books partnerships manager for Google Australia, ... | ||
Amazon Extends Kindle Cloud Reader to Firefox PC Magazine By Chloe Albanesius The HTML5-based Web app lets users read their Kindle books right in the browser. It debuted in early August for Safari on the iPad and desktop and Google's Chrome, but is now available via Firefox on version 6 and above. ... | ||
Backlit Launches New Publishing Model for Teen Franchises MarketWatch (press release) Backlit is launching a Mentors Program ( www.backlitmentors.com ), whereby the publisher will mentor and crowdsource new YA authors to write new episodes. Backlit is a digital mediapublishing company that incubates teen serials as episodic apps and ... | ||
Amazon Unveils Best Books of 2011 List, and Names "The Art of Fielding" Best ... MarketWatch (press release) To see all of the Best Books of 2011, or to download any of the picks to your Kindle, visitwww.amazon.com/bestbooks2011 . "Well-known authors like Haruki Murakami and Jeffrey Eugenides really delivered this year, but 2011 was also a time for notable ... | ||
PacktLib now Offers a Collection of Drupal Books in the Drupal Library San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The Drupal library is a unique resource consisting of all published Packt books on the Drupal content management system. Packt's Drupal books and eBooks have covered all versions of Drupal - 5, 6 and Drupal 7. With books and eBooks for developers, ... | ||
Authors of stories promoting water district can't be found Los Angeles Times Biographical information can't be confirmed about journalists with the website News Hawks Review, whose stories promoted the Central Basin Municipal Water District. By Sam Allen, Los Angeles Times There seemed to be no doubt that Mike Adams was a ... | ||
This Year's Top Toys and Books Announced by the Canadian Toy Testing Council MarketWatch (press release) OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the children of the Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC) today presented awards for the top toys and books. The results published in the Toy Report ... | ||
Local authors to tell stories at Marblehead JCC's Girls Night Out Boston.com Successful local women authors will share their secrets on writing at Girls Night Out, part of the JCC's author series Jewish Book Month running through November. The program, “So You Think You Can Write,” will feature authors Ellen Frankel, ... | ||
Books for the traveler: Holiday gift suggestions Huffington Post The first half is a written conversation alternating between the two authors about their discovery of the old rail line and how they managed to shepherd it against all odds through city bureaucracy from a decaying dinosaur to a vibrant public space. ... | ||
Local books: Return of the Interfaith Amigos The Seattle Times New in local books: a new book by Seattle's Interfaith Amigos; an analysis of the Park Chung Hee era in Korea; policing the homeless; and new stories by Queen Anne author Anne Leigh Parrish. No comments have been posted to this article. ... | ||
A roundup of some of the best food books for every foodie on your gift list Winnipeg Free Press Food-loving rockers can get the best of both worlds in "The Recipe Project" (Black BalloonPublishing, 2011), a collection of recipes by top chefs set to music. Rock out with Mario Batali's spaghetti with Sweet 100 Tomatoes or Michael Symon's octopus ... | ||
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Authors take to Internet to create world's first interactive book 9NEWS.com DENVER - With the invention of eReaders, millions are taking an un-traditional approach to reading books, and now a couple of authors are taking a different approach to writing books. Jana Matthews and Jeff Katz are writing the world's first ... | ||
Authors of 'Caribou Island' and 'Parents Behaving Badly' coming Monday to SRHS Santa Rosa Press Democrat But today both are successful, widely published authors — and both look forward to returning to their alma mater on Monday to talk about the joys and challenges of writing. Vann wrote several acclaimed books of non-fiction and collected stories before ... | ||
17 authors at Book Lovers Auction Annapolis Capital AP VIDEO more>> There will be 17 authors, a chance to bid on thousands of books and other things, to socialize and enjoy food and beverages, take part in a raffle of an e-reader at $10 a ticket or three for $25, perhaps win one of the door prizes, ... | ||
Marshall grad's books headed to TV Ironton Tribune “People keep asking, what was that like to write books about these characters for seven years and then to all of the sudden see them on the television screen and the only way I can describe it, is it's kind of like having a potted plant in your house ... | ||
Hachette Book Group eBook Sales Up 134% mediabistro.com eBookNewser has more: “According to the company, eBooks now represent 21 percent of HBG's net sales, which is up from 9 percent of net sales for Q3 2010. This is a 134 percent growth over total eBook sales in 2010.” Books that did well for Hachette ... | ||
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NewSouth Books to honor Kathryn Tucker Windham Sunday Montgomery Advertiser NewSouth Books will host a program honoring the late Kathryn Tucker Windham from 3-5 pm Sunday in the NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St. (one block from the downtown fountain, on the corner of Washington). The program is in connection with Windham's ... | ||
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The End of Japan's E-Book Isolation | Publishing Perspectives By Guest Contributor The XMDF e-book data format, developed by Sharp several years ago, was considered by many in the publishing industry to be the digital format best suited to publication of Japanese books and comics. Its development and promotion was ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
Inside Google Books: Google eBooks arrive Down Under By Inside Google Book Search We've got hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, including plenty of best sellers, and more than two million free eBooks on top of that. It's easy to find great Australian authors like Kate Grenville, Thomas Keneally, Geraldine Brooks ... Inside Google Books | ||
Pippi Longstocking books deemed racist - The Local A German theologian has sparked controversy by calling Sweden's beloved Pippi Longstocking children's books racist and demanding additions to prompt parents to skip over or explain certain passages. The Local - Germany's news in English | ||
Why Aren't Students Using E-Books? | MindShift By Audrey Watters That's contrary to other reports about consumers using e-books. Back in May, Amazon said that it was selling more e-books than print, and the Association of American Publishers says that for the first half of the year, e-book sales are up 160% ... MindShift | ||
The Millions : Do it Yourself: Self-Published Authors Take Matters ... By Edan Lepucki Even writers who self-publish well, who successfully produce books that don't fit into the publishingindustry's rubric of what's marketable, let alone categorizable, still want entrance into the established world they initially turned away from. If only for assistance with production. If only to say, “My .... but it's apparently not self-published books to get hurt. Have a look at a report for first half of 2011:http://ebookfriendly.com/2011/07/08/top-self-published-kindle-ebooks-in-first-half-of-2011/ ... The Millions | ||
Publishing Q&A with Samhain | By Ciara Knight Because our publishing model means we're able to take risks on cross-genre, niche books, and because we accept a wide range of lengths (from12k words to 120k words), we're a great publisher for newer authors who may have written a book that doesn't quite fit the big publishers' market. We also have many experienced, multi-published writers who have found ... All our books are published as ebooks first. If they're long enough for print (about 50k words) they will be published as ... | ||
Great authors imagine a world transformed by climate change By Pauline Masurel - Green Prophet Can we even imagine a world after climate change? Some of the world's greatest authors, including David Mitchell and Kim Stanley Robinson, grapple with climate change and our future in a new story collection. Here's a review by Pauline ... io9 | ||
Steve Jobs: His Favorite Music And Books By Matt Rosoff Once Now, to the books. 'Be Here Now' by Ram Dass was about Jobs read 'Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind' in college and it kicked off 'Diet For A Small Planet' by Frances Lapp was a big influence. His diet got more extreme in college when he ... Business Insider | ||
Kindle Cloud Reader Finally Brings Kindle Books to Firefox By Melanie Pinola Previously available only to Chrome and Safari users, Kindle Cloud Reader now works on Firefox, so you can read your Kindle books from within Mozilla's browser online or offline. The webapp syncs your Kindle library, as well as your ... Lifehacker | ||
Consumer Confidential: Amazon's best books ... By David Lazarus Amazon's editorial picks include the memoir "What It is Like to Go to War," by Karl Marlantes; and two nonfiction books set during World War II, Erik Larsen's "In the Garden of Beasts" and Michael Zuckoff's "Lost in Shangri-La." Others selected ... Money & Company | ||
Startups Aim to Share Books Better | Adweek By Anthony Ha The idea of "social reading" has been around for years, but there's a cluster of new companies trying to make it actually work. Two of these startups, Subtext and Findings, launched Oct. 25. Another, Readmill, built around sharing clips and ... Adweek : Technology | ||
9 Books That Made Us Terrified of Puberty | The Mary Sue By The Mary Sue Staff and Contributors It may come as a surprise to you that many of the people behind the writing on The Mary Sue have read a lot of books. Many of us were even reading a lot of books when we were little kids in elementary and middle school! Shocking, I know. The Mary Sue | ||
Goings On: Books Pick: A Lesser God : The New Yorker By The New Yorker The lowercase “god” in the late José Saramago novel “Cain,” noted in this week's magazine, is an arbitrary, malicious tyrant. In a winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament, Cain observes the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, ... Goings On |
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