CNET (blog)
by Ed Rhee December 28, 2011 9:17 AM PST Follow @techdadreview Do you have an e-book or a collection of e-books that you want to transfer (side load) to your new Kindle Fire? If you've already tried transferring them, you may have noticed that some or ...
Arizona bans history books
RT
The legislation in question went on the books a year ago and says that Arizona schools can't offer studies designed for students of any particular ethnic group, a move that US Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) called at its passing a “dangerous precedent. ...
RT
Why Books Are Better than e-Books for Children
New York Times (blog)
Many of us do, at least on occasion — even I, who wrote here some weeks ago that I rarely read on my own iPad anymore because I want my children to see me reading books, recommended an app for creating fun picture books for travel last week. ...
New Year Books Quiz
Telegraph.co.uk
Which Waterstone's 11 authors were shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and which one went on to win? 4. Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: a Life was a Christmas bestseller this year. Which other fiction-writers has Tomalin ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Best books of 2011: Huntsville-Madison County Public Library staff offers picks
The Huntsville Times - al.com
By The Huntsville Times Lots of great books came through the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library and its branches in 2011. When I asked my new library co-workers for their favorite books of the year, they offered titles sure to satisfy a wide ...
The Huntsville Times - al.com
Favourite childrens books of the year
North Shore News
Crafty kids will love Klutz activity books, which include new titles like Pom-Pom Monster Salon and Wicked Cool Friendship Bracelets. The books, $19-$24, are available at Kidsbooks in Edgemont Village. HERE are some of our favourite titles published ...
About books: Rock 'n roll photographs
Canton Repository
By Gary Brown The book's publisher, Kent State University Press, calls “1950s Radio in Color” a “remarkable collection of photographs by one of rock's early champions.” Indeed, “1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards” by ...
Staff Picks: The Best Music Books Of 2011
NPR
Words can provide context and illuminate the unknown, and in 2011, our favorite books about music were mostly revealing biographies and wide-spanning analyses. Chosen by the NPR Music staff (and one of NPR's music librarians), these books are ...
Travel books: Pastry and Paris sights become one and the same
Chicago Tribune
This book takes its subtitle literally because, according to author and graphic designer Susan Hochbaum, everything in Paris does indeed look like dessert. Maybe part of the reason is that a patisserie seems to be on every city block and pastries are ...
Reading 55 Books in 2011: What I Learned
Publishers Weekly (blog)
The seeds of a scheme began to sprout: what if I read 50 books this year? I could do it. Four books a month, with two months of five. A little less than a book a week. It seemed like a good, respectable number. And so the year progressed, the calendar ...
Publishers Weekly (blog)
Harmony library hosts workshop on digital reading devices, audio books
Chatfield News-Record
Gray explained that because there are so many different digital formats and just as many different e-reader and e-audio devices, it would be impossible to demonstrate how to download books on each of those during a workshop. So, she focused instead on ...
2011 Year in Review: Books
AfterEllen.com
We're also likely to see more books from lesbian authors on e-Readers as well as on lesbian-owned presses like Bywater, Bella, Arsenal Pulp and Cleis Press. And as LGBT and feminist bookstores continue to try and keep their doors open despite the ...
AfterEllen.com
Pottermore and more: 2011 in children's books
The Guardian
Martin Amis caused a little kerfuffle with his remarks that "only a serious brain injury" would cause him to write for children but the headache may have been all his with the news that seven of the UK's top 10 most borrowed authors write books for ...
The Guardian
Bestselling Books Of 2011
Huffington Post
Total US book sales of 2011 have been compiled by Nielsen's Bookscan. Their lists feature about 75% of American book sales, as it doesn't include sales from Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. The data is from January 3rd to December 4th 2011. ...
Books: Greg Olear's comic novel 'Fathermucker'
Washington Post
If you think the title of Greg Olear's novel Fathermucker (Harper, $13.99) is clever, you'll probably feel the same way about the book. Like Tom Perrotta's “Little Children” and Amy Sohn's “Prospect Park West,” “Fathermucker” is a dark comedy that ...
Minstrel's Alley Author, Gordon Basichis, Selected for Top 100 Facebook Authors
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Background: Minstrel's Alley is a Los Angeles based independent publisher that seeks to bring adventure back into the publishing industry by publishing books that have popular appeal but with more complexity than the standard mainstream fare. ...
Two books on Bona's Terrell eligibility fiasco
Olean Times Herald
Now the lead sports columnist for the New York Post, and author of three diverse books — Emperors and Idiots, the story of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry; 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports; and The First Fall Classic, an account of the 1912 World Series ...
Clint Greenleaf changed self, then publishing world
Austin 360
Specializing in business and self-help books, but also offering biographies, novels and cookbooks, the Book Group made Inc. 500's list of the country's fastest growing companies. Austin is packed with skyrocketing entrepreneurs, but the story of how ...
70% Of Publishers Release eBooks For 'Equality'
mediabistro.com
eBookNewser has more: “The report also found that 64 percent of publishers are interested inpublishing non-fiction and technical digital content. The preferred eReader among is group was the iPad with 44 percent of the respondents preferring the iPad ...
E-readers winning battle of the books
gulfnews.com
"The growth of e-readers has been exponential for the last two Christmases and I would expect that to happen again for at least the next two," Douglas McCabe, publishing specialist at Enders Analysis, said. Even before the current spree of spending on ...
'Adventures of Tintin' film avoids comic books' racist past
The Grio
Created by Belgium author-illustrator, Hergé started the Tintin books in 1929 and published 24 titles up to his death in 1983. The series, less well known in the United States, is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, ...
Harvard Public Library
Nashoba Publishing
Come listen to selections from excellent chapter books, poetry by favorite poets, and explore longer picture books for older readers. Drop-in ~ come for the whole half hour, or stay for just one or two stories. Origami with Michael LaFosse: Wednesday, ...
Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books
All Things Digital
According to the authors, “the key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.” If I were a start-up, I would sell virtual doughnuts. Hey Reid, gimme a badillion dollars! ...
GoodReads' Recommendation Engine Acquisition Gooses The ...
By John Biggs
... to the burgeoning self-publishing movement. The service lets authors create their own author pages and fans can follow and interact with writers in the comments and on private author blogs. You can also rate fifteen books to begin getting recommendations for future reading. Authors can run private blogs, ... In the end services like GoodReads and good old word of mouth will power thepublishing industry. If I can market my own books – for free or for a price – and sell them to eager ...
TechCrunch
gulfnews.com
"The growth of e-readers has been exponential for the last two Christmases and I would expect that to happen again for at least the next two," Douglas McCabe, publishing specialist at Enders Analysis, said. Even before the current spree of spending on ...
'Adventures of Tintin' film avoids comic books' racist past
The Grio
Created by Belgium author-illustrator, Hergé started the Tintin books in 1929 and published 24 titles up to his death in 1983. The series, less well known in the United States, is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, ...
Harvard Public Library
Nashoba Publishing
Come listen to selections from excellent chapter books, poetry by favorite poets, and explore longer picture books for older readers. Drop-in ~ come for the whole half hour, or stay for just one or two stories. Origami with Michael LaFosse: Wednesday, ...
Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books
All Things Digital
According to the authors, “the key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.” If I were a start-up, I would sell virtual doughnuts. Hey Reid, gimme a badillion dollars! ...
GoodReads' Recommendation Engine Acquisition Gooses The ...
By John Biggs
... to the burgeoning self-publishing movement. The service lets authors create their own author pages and fans can follow and interact with writers in the comments and on private author blogs. You can also rate fifteen books to begin getting recommendations for future reading. Authors can run private blogs, ... In the end services like GoodReads and good old word of mouth will power thepublishing industry. If I can market my own books – for free or for a price – and sell them to eager ...
TechCrunch
Smashwords Authors Experience Blowout Christmas at Barnes ...
By Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords
Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT| · PUBLISHING ... Earlier this month, Amazon played the Grinch who stole Christmas when it convinced thousands of authors to remove approximately 100000 books from Amazon's competing retailers two weeks before Christmas. Thankfully, only about 5000 of those books came from Smashwords authors, with most...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Best Internet Marketing Books for 2012
By AHall
There are many books publishing in 2012 that promise to introduce us to new ways to strategize, develop online marketing plans and deploy campaigns across a variety of channels. What books are you anxiously awaiting in 2012? ...
Online Marketing Blog
Books Acquired, 12.21.2011 | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
So, obviously I can't manage to do these “Books Acquired” posts in a timely fashion, let alone chronologically. Anyway, I'm certain of the date I picked up these four because I ended up writing this post about why novels make lousy gifts later ...
biblioklept
Five things we learned about publishing in 2011 - O'Reilly Radar
By Jenn Webb
The wave started out small, with a host of expanding self-publishing tools for authors, but it grew to tsunami proportions as Amazon launched imprint after imprint, from romance to science fiction. Amazon also hired industry heavy-hitter Larry ... The Wall Street Journal reported that "Amazon.com Inc. fueled the growth [in self-publishing] by offering self-published writers as much as 70% of revenue on digital books, depending on the retail price. By comparison, traditional publishers ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011 - NYTimes.com
By By THE PHOTO DEPARTMENT
The candidates - in this case, nearly 100 photography books published this year - took over every inch of available counter space in the photo department, where they were carefully scrutinized by a group of opinionated voters, each of whom ...
The 6th Floor
Publishing Insiders Wrap Up: The Year in Review and Predictions ...
By Paula
The Publishing Insiders took a look into their crystal ball to make predictions for 2012. ... Ebooks: In 2011 ebooks will account for 2.9 percent of worldwide sales; by 2015, ebooks will account for 12.7 percent. ... Sell More Books". Sign up today for a free subscription to the best newsletter in the industry: Book Marketing Expert, which is packed with powerful promotion and publicity tips forauthors and publishers. As a special welcome gift, we will also send you our time-tested tips, ...
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Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works by Chronicle Books ...
By Jeff
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More glorious books - Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
By Lynne Patrick
It isn't even entirely about the books that sold out their first print runs and went into reprint. It might be, a little, for the year I was shortlisted for an award honouring women in publishing. The other shortlisted candidates were all people who had ...
Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the...
Books I Read in 2011 :: UPDATED with a LINKY!
By nester
You can learn a lot about a person by what books are on their bookshelf. You can learn even more by what books they actually read. I thought I'd share what books I remember reading over the past year, the good, the bad, the embarrassing. ...
Nesting Place
JT Lindroos' Best Books of 2011
By JT Lindroos
Cinebook kept its pace of publishing an array of classic bandes-dessinees in affordable editions. ...Finally, Rebellion brought several classic 2000 AD books to the US market, including the JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES series. ...
Bookgasm
Great Books « Booktalking
By asuen
Anastasia Suen is the author of 135 books for children and adults, a literacy blogger, a children's literature consultant for several publishers, a former K,1,5, & 6 teacher who visits schools to teach the six traits of writing, and a workshop ...
Booktalking
By asuen
Anastasia Suen is the author of 135 books for children and adults, a literacy blogger, a children's literature consultant for several publishers, a former K,1,5, & 6 teacher who visits schools to teach the six traits of writing, and a workshop ...
Booktalking
Podcast: Talking Books, the Movies of 2011, Lackluster Box-Office ...
By Brad Brevet
Today Laremy and Brad spend some time discussing their recent reading habits, the state of the American box-office, the race for Oscar's Best Picture, new DVDs and Blu-rays and then some...
Rope of Silicon - Movie News,...
Books for your new Kindle
We've been working overtime to produce books worth reading, books worth ... enjoy essays by 62 of American's favorite business authors, including Tom Peters , ...
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ebooks | GadgeTell
Now is the best time to load your shiny new device with dozens of e-books without ..... News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics ...
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