| Amazon Publishing Push Grows to Children's Books New York Times By JULIE BOSMAN Amazon expanded its publishing ambitions on Tuesday by acquiring more than 450 titles from Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, a niche publisher. Amazon has published several children's books under its AmazonEncore imprint, ... | ||
| Apple in European Price Fixing Investigation Forbes The problem is in the way that the books have been priced. The European commission has launched an investigation into whether Apple and five large publishing houses have conspired to fix the price of ebooks. The growing popularity of devices such as ... | ||
| Dymocks launches publishing arm Computerworld Australia Australian book retailer Dymocks has launched its new web-based publishing arm to enable aspiring authors to produce, publish and distribute their work as both physical and electronic books. Dymocks general manager of eCommerce, Michael Allara, ... | ||
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| Best books: Writers in diverse genres produced many worthy titles, if few ... Kansas City Star East St. Louis celebrated its first 150 years this year, and 15 essays explore various issues in "The Making of an All-American City," edited by Mark Abbott (Virginia Publishing). For residents of Ladue, Charlene Bry unearths years of history and ... | ||
| Best Books of 2011 Washington Post The top five fiction and top five nonfiction books as chosen by Washington Post editors, with excerpts from The Post's reviews. '1Q84,' by Haruki Murakami. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Knopf, $30.50). ... | ||
| Gardening books make growth-industry gifts San Antonio Express By Calvin R. Finch, Guest Columnist There are a large number of books that will make great gifts for San Antonio area gardeners. Here are some of my favorites: For a basic text, Neil Sperry's “Complete Guide to Texas Gardening” is the best. ... | ||
| On Wine: Books for Wine Lovers San Jose Mercury News By Laurie Daniel The end of the year always brings flurries of new wine books, many of which are destined to become gifts for some wine lover. There are the usual holiday offerings: updated versions of educational or reference books, such as the 2012 ... | ||
| Publishing App Expo: Real Life Business Models For Apps - eBookNewser mediabistro.com For Jenny Lam, co-founder of Jackson Fish Market, a startup that designs children's eBooks, said that this was bad news when Apple first changed their rules. But she said that she now sees this as a marketing cost. “We thought that that cut would drain ... | ||
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| Pearl Harbor fading into history books Port Huron Times Herald How much time must pass before dates that changed our nation become little more than moments preserved in history books? How much time does it take before an event loses its power to rally us and challenges new generations to grasp its importance? ... | ||
| Local authors featured Dec. 10-11 at Holiday Gift Expo in Freeport The Rock River Times Authors featured Saturday include Peggy Badgett, Harriett Gustason, Glenn Johnson and Sue Langenberg. Sunday, Bryant Buck, Dr. Edward Finch, Pat McClellan, Dr. Roland Tolliver and Sue Langenberg will be at the center. The authors have written books ... | ||
| Purchase Featured Books NPR May 31, 2011 The season of pleasure reading is upon us, and the publishing world has readied a handful of thrilling titles to be released just in time for the summer heat. After surveying the crop, here are our picks for fun reading in the sun. ... | ||
| Interactive ebooks take on fiction novels GigaOm A lot of the existing enhanced ebooks are children's books that bring almost game-like elements into a story. Others like Our Choice employ infographics, videos, images and other elements that allow people to get deeper into the book as if it were a ... | ||
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| Books to help get you in the holiday spirit International Falls Daily Journal We also have quite a few fiction books with a holiday theme. The library has a display of holiday titles. Check it out regularly over the next several weeks. We are adding new titles as books get checked out. In fact, many of your favorite authors have ... | ||
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| Books on Forgiveness - Announcing Forgiveness Formula: the #1 Best-Selling ... WebWire (press release) On December 6th, 2011 “Forgiveness Formula” became a bestseller in Inspirational Christianity on Amazon for both books and eBooks. Rising from the bottom to the top in less than a day, this book continues to impact the lives of readers all over the ... | ||
| Readmill goes public: is the future of books social? — Tech News ... By Bobbie Johnson Authors, too, can drop in and talk about their books: here's an example from Aaron Gustafsson, author of Adaptive Web Design who essentially uses the highlight function to give a director's commentary on his own material. (“All of the authors we 've .... The disruption in the traditional publishing space is impacting the total environment of consumption and distribution. Distribution channels ... eBooks are really challenging, but I think Readmill has some great ideas. Plus, the more they ... GigaOM | ||
| What is the 'New' Publisher? | Publishing Perspectives By Guest Contributor Geller emphasized that it's the author's decision how and where they're publishing: “We don't have a job without an author,” he said, adding that authors should simply choose “whoever they can trust to work with.” What was most striking from ... Publishing Perspectives | ||
| The Seduction Of Self-Publishing By terribleminds I would've given into the culture of resentment and revenge surrounding many self-published authors— the ones who have to keep asserting their reasons for doing DIY, the ones who have to turn every blog post into propaganda, the ones who have to make sure to get in their jabs at the Mean Ol' Sour-Faced Publishing Monopoly ... And many self-publishing books take a while to start generating real revenue (and often only do so when you have multiple books in the marketplace). ... TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig,... | ||
| Amazon Publishing to Acquire Marshall Cavendish US Children's ... By Paul Biba Amazon Publishing to Acquire Marshall Cavendish US Children's Books Titles; release them as ebooks. December 6, 2011 | 5:29 pm ... Publishing, East Coast Group. “We look forward to working with these respected authors and illustrators. ... TeleRead: News and views on e-books,... | ||
| VatorNews - Amazon acquires Marshall Cavendish Children's Books By Nathan Pensky Amazon has already told the New York Times that it plans to convert all these titles into eBooks. Most of the Cavendish titles acquired are picture books, and many of them have never been published in ... Amazon has started publishing authors under its own imprint in 2009, but had not epxanded significantly until bringing in former agent and editor Laurence J. Kirshbaum to run AmazonPublishing. Since then Kirshbaum has amped up efforts to create a robust imprint, securing several... Vator.tv news stories and report | ||
| Sci-fi children's books By Jason Kottke Sci-fi children's books. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, a list of science fiction booksfor the little ones. Very Deadly Bounty Hunter. By Jason Kottke • Dec 7, 2011 at 02:40 pm • booksremix ... kottke.org | ||
| A sensible look at HTML5 and publishing - O'Reilly Radar By Jenn Webb Everyone in the publishing world seems to be boasting about HTML5, but what does HTML5 actually address and how should it be used? In this interview, ... Publishers are clamoring to enhance theire books with interactive and multimedia features, ereader manufacturers want to support these features, and EPUB 3 provides a clearly defined path forward. We're already beginning to see support... KF8 provides the necessary tools for producing these types of books. It will facilitate the ... O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,... | ||
| New ebooks look at iO 5 | MacNews By dsellers TidBITS Publishing has just released two new ebooks: "Take Control of Your iPad" and "Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPbone and iPod touch, Third Edition." "Take Control of Your iPad" (http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ipad) by Tonya ... MacNews Latest News | ||
| Amazon to Bring 450 Children's Books to the Kindle Fire By Lauren Indvik Amazon's publishing unit has acquired 450 children's books, which the company plans to format for its full-color Kindle Fire tablet. Mashable » Media | ||
| 30 Book Awards for Self-Published Authors — The Book Designer By Joel Friedlander Post image for 30 Book Awards for Self-Published Authors. As self-publishing a book has become more accepted and far more popular than it has ever been, book awards for self-published bookshave also multiplied. These awards are ... The Book Designer Digital Media Maverick? | Infinitive: "There is no way to price a traditional book release at $3. You have to help the publisher meet their numbers. So not only does the book have to be priced much higher, but the time commitment to promote it via traditional book tours is much more. With an Ebook release I can sit here and promote it on social media and via email interviews, which I like a lot better." |
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