Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien posted Dec 22nd 2011 2:45PM So, you can read all those tomes you've picked up through Google Books offline on your smartphone and tablet, but what about on your laptop? Well, if for some reason you've got the desire to power through ...
Kindle, eBooks and the future of Tanzania's poor readership
The Citizen Daily
Due to the rise of E books and the Amazon Kindle phenomenon we are witnessing the end of bookpublishing since it began around 1500 years ago. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) study released March this year sales of eBbooks reached ...
Nine Books To Read Before Your Organization Dies
Forbes
Here are some books that tell you what you need to know, rather than what you might like to hear. They fall into three categories. First, those works that help us diagnose what's gone wrong. Second, those books that tell firms how to get better. ...
Forbes
Picking books for hours of escape
Ct Post
Maybe you'll find yourself reading in a cozy corner sometime this week, with loved ones nearby, similarly absorbed in their books. If you get "An American Childhood," by Annie Dillard, read in time, you may want to stop by the library on Wednesday, ...
Children's books from around the globe come to life on Christmas trees at ...
New York Daily News
The holiday celebration features eight decorated Christmas trees inspired by children'sbooks from around the world. The literary theme is near and dear to Bartow-Pell's mission, said Ellen Bruzelius, its executive director. “We're always trying to get ...
New York Daily News
Books preview of the year 2012
Telegraph.co.uk
Gaby Wood selects the key dates in the books year 2012 from January to the end of March. Charles Dickens, photographed at the age of 49 by the London portrait photographer George Herbert Watkins. Watkins took several portraits of Dickens between 1858 ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Authors share their collections in 'Unpacking My Library'
USA TODAY
In Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Yale, $20), a new collection of photographs and interviews, editor Leah Price asks 13 authors about the books and bookcases in their homes — as well as the top 10 books on their shelves. ...
Holiday season full of good MMA reads
ESPN (blog)
By Chuck Mindenhall Boxing has produced thousands of books in a century and a half, ranging from technique books, to nutritional, to reference, to literature. The latter is the hardest to come by. Don't miss a moment of the latest MMA coverage from ...
Bookshops turn the page and cash in
Sydney Morning Herald
Take it as read … shoppers peruse the shelves at Books Kinokuniya in the city - while the rest of the retail sector is having a hard time, book shops are reporting better-than-expected sales as customers pour in over the festive period. ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Ten books you should be reading this winter
Hudson Valley Press
By Chris Stevenson This is my list of must-read books from the past four or five years, but I wouldn't recommend them to you if I didn't read most of them myself. • 10: "Putsch!" - A classic book on Adolph Hitler by Richard Hanser. ...
The Fix's best political books of 2011
Washington Post
Check out The Fix's list of the best political books of 2011. AP / AP "The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics" by Kathryn J. McGarr Monkeys, lion cubs, cat exhibition, seals, a hazel dormouse and more. News and feature images from ...
Adam Johnson Recalls North Korea: A Country with No Books
Daily Beast
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth says novelist Adam Johnson recalling his own visit there. His new novel, “The Orphan's Master,” is set in the country. ...
Public Libraries: return books on time or be shot
The Spoof (satire)
"In some cases during the summer several thousand library books were not taken back on time throughout England. This is totally unacceptable, anti-social behavior which we are now at last able to address", the Inspectorate of Constabulary said today, ...
A roster of great basketball books
Boston.com
The reaction to that note was a pleasant surprise, with several readers, tweeters and commenters either noting how much they too loved David Halberstam's classic on the 1979-80 Portland Trail Blazers, sharing their favorite basketball books, ...
Marin Voice: Recycling books to build literacy
Marin Independent-Journal
7 IJ, 15 volunteer tutors from Experience Corps Marin came to the Global Book Exchange in Terra Linda to get free books as holiday gifts for the dozens of students they are tutoring in the San Rafael elementary schools. Each tutor left with a bag ...
Canadians slow to turn page on paper books for e-readers: Survey
Vancouver Sun
Before a recent trip to China, for instance, Switzman's parents bought an e-reader so they could load up books without getting weighed down. Back home, however, he said they returned to the "comfort" of ink and paper. Online retailer Amazon announced ...
BOOKS: New release by Allagash Ranger
Kennebec Journal
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5000 books for Africa
Auckland stuff.co.nz
HELPING HANDS: Meadowbank School students, from left: Harriet Butt, Isabel Schmidt, Johnny Waymouth and Blair Hood have helped collect 5000 books to ship to two South African schools which do not have libraries. Meadowbank School students are committed ...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
The Overlooked Books of 2011
New Hampshire Public Radio
By Virginia Prescott The publishing industry stayed afloat this year by designing and selling booksfor e-reader; those devices jumped from novelty items to the mainstream. Brick and mortar booksellers had a rougher time. Biblio behemoth Borders closed ...
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: Read of fascinating family histories, murdered historical ...
Morning Sentinel
By Richard Daniel O'Leary An unknown pundit once said, “The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success,” and businessman Richard O'Leary know a little about one and a lot about the other. ONE WITH THE SEA is O'Leary's autobiography, ...
We Need a Google Books for Car Parts
Jalopnik
You know about Google Books, right? It's an ambitious project by Google to, essentially, scan and make publicly available every known book. I'm guessing the end goal is to put them all onto a chip implanted in Larry Page's brain so he can always beat ...
DotEPUB Converts Websites to Ebooks
By Thorin Klosowski
If you've ever wanted to convert an article to an ebook for later reading, it's usually a two or three step process, but DotEPUB is a Chrome extension that handles the conversion in one simple click.
Lifehacker
3 Reasons We Hope Google Books Gets Better
By Jon Mitchell
Google Books has had trouble on the content side. Google's approach has been too gung-ho, trying to "digitize the world's books" before publishers were ready for it. It also doesn't have the hardware reach that Amazon and Apple have.
ReadWriteWeb
Offline Google eBooks
By Alex Chitu
If you've used Google eBooks for Android or iPhone, you probably noticed that the mobile apps had a clear advantage over the desktop app: you could download books to your device and read them offline. The same feature is now available ...
Google Operating System
The 11 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2011 | Brain ...
By Maria Popova
After the year's best children's books, art and design books, photography books, science books, history books, and food books, the 2011 best-of series continues with the most compelling, provocative and thought-provoking psychology and ..... Drawing on their research at the Social Emotions Lab at Northeastern University, the authors offer a fascinating yet highly readable perspective on the psychology of the hero/villain spectrum of human character, inviting us to reconceive ...
Brain Pickings
By Maria Popova
After the year's best children's books, art and design books, photography books, science books, history books, and food books, the 2011 best-of series continues with the most compelling, provocative and thought-provoking psychology and ..... Drawing on their research at the Social Emotions Lab at Northeastern University, the authors offer a fascinating yet highly readable perspective on the psychology of the hero/villain spectrum of human character, inviting us to reconceive ...
Brain Pickings
Indie bookstore uses ebooks to boost sales – a concierge service ...
By Paul Biba
Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| ... And, remember, we are here to try and answer any and all questions you have about e-books. Just drop us a line ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
BookLamp Will Recommend Books Based On Your Past ...
By John Biggs
Instead, put your query to BookLamp, a free service/project aimed at creating a database of “like”books. Similar to Pandora, the service is based on the Book Genome Project and attempts to findbooks that are similar based on measurable ...
TechCrunch
Books of import — Marginal Revolution
By Tyler Cowen
Jonathan Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790. With 1152 pages, a major author, and a clear writing style, this is a major work. I've only browsed it. Zara Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: ...
Marginal Revolution
Unbound Publishing - Tibor Fischer | Selectism.com
By Lena Dystant
It's Nice That alert us to Unbound, a rather interesting concept in independent publishing. The spirit of consumer participation in mind, the idea is. ... a rather interesting concept in independent publishing. The spirit of consumer participation in mind, the idea is relatively simple: “Authors pitch their ideas directly to you. ... This entry was posted on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Books & Magazines. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own ...
Selectism.com
Books Al Dente — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic ...
By Steven Heller
Oliver Wood is a London rare book, photograph and archive dealer with a yen for photo books and some graphic design. I found this unique 1934 trade catalog, Catalogo Generale Buitoni, in his recent acquisitions drawer (on his website) and ...
Imprint-The Online Community...
Gifts For People Who Read Books
By The Deadspin staff
When we have time, we at Deadspin like to read (and also sometimes write) books. These are thebooks we read and wrote this year that we think would make a great, last-minute gift for any literate people you might know, or even as a special ...
Deadspin
Bah Humbug, But On Second Thoughts: Free Books! «
By Rose Hunter
However, Kindle Direct Publishing is running this promotional thing at the moment; the ins and outs of it are not completely clear to me, but the upshot is that we can offer the eBook free for five days every six months. Two of those days are ...
Come 2012 - Make The Switch To Zoho Books | Zoho Blogs
By Naren
Ever since we launched Zoho Books in the first quarter of 2011, there have been numerous requests from our customers.
Zoho Blogs
Pemberley, Steve Jobs still the books we're buying - LA Observed
By Kevin Roderick
Tweet · Pemberley, Steve Jobs still the books we're buying · Kevin Roderick • December 21 2011 12:54 PM. As they did last week, authors P.D. James and Walter Isaacson top the last pre-Christmas bestseller lists at Southern California indie ...
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