E-books get pricey--will customers go paperback?

E-books get pricey. Will customers go paperback?
Christian Science Monitor
Jeffrey Trachtenberg writes for the Wall Street Journal that consumers buying digitalbooks are experiencing sticker shock. While the price of readers has plummeted, the price of ebooks has increased. This is the institutional blog of the Ludwig von ...

Christian Science Monitor

Book Notes: Best bets for gift books
Fairport-E.Rochester Post
Of the 35 books I reviewed this year, two-thirds were nonfiction and many were written by authorsfrom New England, where Book Notes originates. If you are shopping for gifts and want to support your local, independent bookseller, here are a few books ...

QuarkXPress 9.1 for the Mac: A top choice for desktop publishing
Computerworld
First, you design your app (bookstore or newsstand) and then create content (books or periodicals). In the past, the only self-publishing option for authors would have been a print-on-demand publisher. For a 40-page full-color book, for example, ...

Czechs sign condolence books, pay respect to late Havel
Czech Happenings
Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka and the heads of the two houses of parliament, Miroslava Nemcova and Milan Stech, were the first to sign the books of condolence on the death of former president Vaclav Havel this...

Czech Happenings

Protesters tell of saving books from Institut d'Egypte fire
Al-Masry Al-Youm
In the wake of the fire that destroyed much of the manuscript collection at the Institut d'Egypte on Friday, scores of pro-democracy protesters have told of their efforts to salvage books and other rare documents from the smoking ruins. ...

Children's High-Tech Bible Books from BibleKids 3D Teaches Kids Bible Stories ...
Sacramento Bee
Just in time for the Christmas Holiday - BibleKids 3D delivers two amazing books. "A Christmas Story" takes you on a 3D interactive journey of the classic story of the birth of Jesus Christ. Amazing graphics and real-life characters bring to life the ...

BOOKS: 'The Phantom Tollbooth' a classic
Daily Republic
This year marks the 50th anniversary of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” one of the all-time great books of children's literature. “The Phantom Tollbooth, The 50th Anniversary Edition.” By Norton Juster. Illustrations by Jules Feiffer. Knopf, 2011. 288 pp. ...

Books with appeal for all ages
The Detroit News
By Sonja Bolle Sometimes books for young people are so good they're fun for adults, too. Read on for a look at books you could get as holiday gifts for friends, younger or older brothers or sisters, or even parents or grandparents. ...

Jane Austen family books made digital for first time
BBC News
A collection of Jane Austen family books has been made digital for the first time for the general public to research. Original material previously only available to scholars can now be freely viewed on computers at the Hampshire Record Office in ...

BBC News

Christmas Books: Cookery Special
Telegraph.co.uk
Errors do occur in cookery books, but one tied to a popular television series ought to serve its readers better. It takes a brave cookery author to promise perfection. One person's idea of a well-executed soufflé may not be another's but a really ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Three books on ICT laucnched
Myjoyonline.com
The “Concise ICT Fundamentals Volume l' which is a 416-page book published by the Pacom Publishing Corporation of Korea is compiled into six chapters and each chapter subdivided into three sections, namely text, assignments and quizzes while the ...

Myjoyonline.com

9 Books Shaping The Next Generation Of Mystery Writers
Huffington Post
You're apt to find lists ranging from the best books of the year to the year's sexiest authors. One list that is as much a standard of the season as The Christmas Song is the Top Ten Most Influential Novels in the History of Mystery Fiction. ...

The Best Books of 2011
New York Daily News (blog)
BY Sherryl Connelly This week, at a rate of two a day, we'll be rolling out the list of the best books of 2011 that will appear in Sunday's Your New York section of the Daily News. “The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War” ...

Christmas Books for Adults
Parkersburg News (blog)
Bestselling authors Erin McCarthy, Donna Kauffman and Kate Angell gives three novellas a bit of Christmas spirit in "Unwrapped." In "Blue Christmas" Blue is caught in a blizzard with a hot hunk named Christian. Though the weather outside might be ...

Books for the music lover
USA Today
By Terry Richardson (Grand Central Publishing, $50) The photographer spent a year, from Lollapalooza through Monster Ball, following Gaga around the world — and well behind the curtains — to capture the chameleon-esque and uber-theatrical images in ...

6 books for great bosses to give or get as holiday gifts
Poynter.org
That's why I'm often asked to recommend good books for bosses. Sometimes I suggest what I'd call “classics,” which I've written about in previous columns. But let's look at some newer releases I've enjoyed that I think you'd also like. ...

Poynter.org

Book review: Her search for a "...New Best Friend."
Canton Repository
AP Poto/Ballantine Books In this book cover image released by Ballantine Books, "MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend," by Rachel Bertsche, is shown. By Rasha Madkour The Associated Press “MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a ...

Uganda: Books They Read - Timothy Hatcher, Teacher
AllAfrica.com
He told Beatrice Lamwaka about his passion for books. I like to read about everything. You can read, explore and learn about everything. I am an information junky and I always want to know, and reading helps me do that. The more we experience, ...

Rankin books a date for RLS day in Capital
Edinburgh Evening News
“Hopefully the report will look at how Edinburgh can mark the birthday of one of its world-renowned authors in a way that befits his memory.” Peggy Hughes, of the City of Literature Trust, said: “We would love to see it on a par with Burns Night. ...

Edinburgh Evening News

Star Images Helping to Save Vatican Books
eNews Park Forest
Antique books in the Vatican Library are being digitised to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed through ESA to store satellite images of the sky. The Library needed a way of scanning the delicate old manuscripts and storing ...

Error-plagued books' publisher to skirt Va review
Newsday
Click here Error-plagued books' publisher to skirt Va review Published: December 19, 2011 11:05 AM By The Associated Press (AP) -- A year after Virginia overhauled its review process to improve the quality of textbooks used in public schools, ...

CALIBRE VP & CTO Authors Book on Innovation
MarketWatch (press release)
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CALIBRE congratulates Tarak Modi, CALIBRE VP & CTO on the recent publication of his book, "Living in the Innovation Age." In this book, Tarak describes how companies such as Proctor & Gamble, 3M, Google, ...

Help Your Budding Authors And Illustrators Publish Their Works
Hartford Courant
Her daughter asked if she could try to get her books published. So, together, they sent packages to New York and entered writing contests but nothing happened. "I decided to take it into my own hands and create a site where she and my younger daughter ...

Ten Bold Predictions for Book Publishing in 2012 | Digital Book World
By Jeremy Greenfield
In November of 2011, the Kindle Million Club – a list of authors who have sold over 1 million paid copies of their books on Amazon's Kindle store – swelled to 14 with the addition of David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer. ...
Digital Book World

Books As Fetish Objects - The Rumpus.net
By Lisa Levy
An aphoristic writer, Benjamin peppers his “talk about book collecting” (the essay's subtitle) with all sorts of gems about books, writing, collecting, reading, and memory. To wit, “A real library…is always somewhat impenetrable and at the same time uniquely itself… ... Pinker and Pullman are also the only interviewees who cop to reading ebooks (Pullman likes to read thrillers on his Kindle). The most refreshingly non-reverential writer interviewed is Edmund White, who not only regularly ...
The Rumpus.net

A look at self-publishing | TeleRead: News and views on e-books ...
By Paul Biba
A good article about self-publishing in Jenny Hansen's Cowbell blog. ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... Pear Jam Books to publish in four formats ...I've checked for three authors I know. ..." ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Bars with Fireplaces; Top Food Books - Listage - Eater NY
By Jackie Goldstein
[Flickr/Scoboco] · James McGown on Buschenschank Brooklyn's Brews [FitR] · Top Ten Non-Cookbook Food Books of 2011 [SE] · Observe the Holiday Line for Katz's [EVG] · Noticing a...
Eater NY

The Best Food Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
... of menu design. After the year's best children's books, art and design books, photography books, science books, and history books, the 2011 best-of series continues with a taste of the year's most delectable food books, a literary lobster course of the finest variety. .... Since 1992, America's Test Kitchen, a 2500 square foot kitchen outside of Boston, has been publishing its meticulously tested and instructionally detailed recipes in Cook's Illustrated Magazine. This year, they culled the ...
Brain Pickings

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Notable Books of 2011 - My List
By John Hill
Designers & Books has posted my list of Notable Books of 2011. Of the nine titles I selected, some have been reviewed on my web page*, and in other cases reviews are forthcoming. Thanks to the folks at Designers & Books for asking me to ...
A Daily Dose of Architecture

pattinase: My 5 Favorite (Non-Crime) Books Read in 2011
By pattinase (abbott)
My 5 Favorite (Non-Crime) Books Read in 2011. I feel awkward about mentioning crime fiction titles so these will have to do. What were some of the books you most enjoyed in 2011? Posted by pattinase (abbott) at 7:43 AM. Labels: Books ...
pattinase

Physics World's 2011 Books of the Year - physicsworld.com
Find out who has won Physics World's prestigious Book of the Year award.
physicsworld.com: all content

YA Highway: How To Share Your Favorite Books and Authors
By Kristin Halbrook
How To Share Your Favorite Books and Authors. Posted by Kristin Halbrook Dec 19, 2011. One of, if not the, best ways for a book to build buzz and gain new readers is by word of mouth. Readers have a great deal of power deciding what to ...
YA Highway

Open and Shut?: The Open Access Interviews: OMICS Publishing ...
By Richard Poynder
In an article published in The Charleston Review in July 2010, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, described OMICS Publishing Group as a predatory Open Access publisher. “Having a large number of titles, as does ...
Open and Shut?

Error-plagued history books' publisher to bypass Va review by marketing ...
Washington Post
A year after Virginia overhauled its review process to improve the quality of textbooks used in public schools, the publisher whose error-plagued history books helped spur the change now plans to bypass state Department of Education scrutiny. ...

Sales jump for books written by Hitchens - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Fans of Christopher Hitchens are doing more than mourning his death: They're buying his books.
news.yahoo.com/sales-jump-books-written-hitchens-1850281...

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