Ars Technica
In 2007, Google's legal dispute with a coalition of authors and publishers over Google Books was put on hold while the parties hashed out a settlement agreement. That agreement was announced in 2008, but it attracted a massive backlash that convinced ...
More romance authors share their favorite holiday movies
USA TODAY
I've always been a sucker for movies — and books! — that are set at Christmastime in the '30s or '40s, and Patricia Neal is just incredible in this one. I always related to John Boy, the teenage son who locked himself away in his room scribbling ...
USA TODAY
New Kindle? Amazon Rounds Up Best Apps, E-Books, More
PC Magazine
To help you decide how to load up that device (and throw a little more change Amazon's way), the retailer this week released its "Best of Digital" list with recommendations for apps, books, magazines, music, and more. Amazon said Christmas Day, ...
Books on Badgers abound; see the list on uwbadgers.com
University of Wisconsin Badgers
There are 16 books listed that feature something about the Badger nation or Wisconsin history. The latest addition is another great book by Associate Athletic Director for External Relations, Justin Doherty, What it Means to be A Badger. ...
University of Wisconsin Badgers
Our favorite books of 2011
MiamiHerald.com
Other writers also succumbed to the inevitable digital onslaught and allowed theirbooks to be e-printed, including Ray Bradbury and Michael Chabon. Meanwhile, closer to home, Books & Books went the other way, publishing two print books — the story ...
MiamiHerald.com
Scott Mueller From Que Publishing and Eric Anderson From CyberPower Systems to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NASHVILLE, TN, Dec 23, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Guests from Que Publishing and CyberPower Systems will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and ...
Senior official urges China's publishing companies to go global
Xinhua
23 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun on Friday called for greater efforts to build up more publishing enterprises competitive in the international market in an aim to promote Chinese culture. Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the ...
Books of the year: Part 7
The Australian
Thanks to Text Publishing, Appalachian author Ron Rash is finding a local audience. Start with the grand-scale melodrama, Serena, or the intense, parochial crime story, One Foot in Eden. Best of a generally very good series on Australian capital cities ...
Books of the year: Part 6
The Australian
Picture: David Crosling Source: HWT Image Library THIS week we conclude our Books of the Year wrap-up, with the LZ list of writers and critics sharing the books they most enjoyed in 2011. Nam Le, writer: In the couple of years since I first read ...
2012 will be game changer for Indian publishing
IBNLive.com
Books, interestingly, are not like any other FMCG commodity, where data mining could be singularly relied on. This, coupled with the blind race of scaling up, can be a sure recipe for disaster. Hopefully, towards the latter part of 2012, some of these ...
IBNLive.com
Books of the year: Part 8
The Australian
Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian: How rich and strange the pleasures of reading, how unfathomable the books that make an appeal at once to the mind and heart. Scores of subtle, well-written, well-argued, well-edited volumes poured from the presses and ...
Newt Gingrich Drops In Polls, Keeps Signing Books, As Ron Paul Gains
DrJays.com Live
The article notes that the candidate “has done at least seven book signings since November 26″, and that money paid for books goes directly to the Gingriches, not to Newt's deeply indebted campaign. In another gaffe that probably could have been ...
Bookish: Best Books of 2011
Houston Chronicle (blog)
(Reagan Arthur Books) A memoir from the current queen of comedy who is many things at once: an Emmy- and Mark Twain Prize-winner; the creator of 30 Rock (as well as a writer, producer and actor on the show); an obedient white girl from the burbs; ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Outskirts Press Reveals Top 10 Best Selling Books in Self-Publishing for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company today announced its top ten titles for November. All these books, and other Outskirts Press titles, are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, ...
Good story this season for smaller book stores
The Seattle Times
Despite the proliferation of e-books and reading devices, local independent bookstores say sales of traditional books are up this season. By Susan Gilmore Kris Kelsay, of Mercer Island, has stayed true to her local bookstore, Island Books, ...
Books pour in from Green Bay-area Starbucks patrons
Green Bay Press Gazette
Customers at three Green Bay-area Starbucks coffeehouses bought the books for the children, many of whom otherwise wouldn't have books at home. First- and second-graders made paper ornaments with the names of their favorite books on them, and teachers ...
Last-Minute Holiday Shopping: Food Books for Friends and Family
The Atlantic
And if you can only order online, and want to give an extremely extravagant present to the most hardcore cook you know, no contest: it's the five-volume encyclopedia Modernist Cuisine, not just the food-book publishing event of the year but a book ...
DARREL HUCKABY: Comic books have come a long way since the '50s
Rockdale Citizen
By Darrell Huckaby (252) Remember comic books? They were all the rage in the '50s and '60s — at least in my house. I liked Superman. What was not to like about Superman? He worked for a newspaper in real life and had two hot women — Lois Lane and ...
“A Christmas Carol” has long found home in comic books
NewsOK.com (blog)
Batman mixes with Charles Dickens in this year's graphic novel “Batman: Noel,” but that's not the only time the classic “A Christmas Carol” has been remixed into comics. English author Charles Dickens' novella, first published in 1843, features the ...
NewsOK.com (blog)
How Much Is a Book Worth?
Huffington Post (blog)
For instance, I paid $2.99 for Toby Neal's Blood Orchids, which I read on the train to New York, along with various other books by authors I hadn't tried before, simply because they bore that ever-popular promotional price tag of $.99. ...
Roberto Bolano Plays With History
New York Times
Roberto Bolaño is one of the most prolific of dead writers: some half a dozen books in Spanish and at least twice that in English since his death (at the age of 50) in 2003. Of course he didn't write these works in the afterlife, even if such a feat is ...
Finding My Religion
New York Times
Books about God tend to fall into two categories: objective inquiries into the nature of belief and personal tales of spiritual awakening. One type explores history, creation myths and religious ritual. In the other, the author typically undergoes a ...
Plymouth-Canton bans books from AP class, and other retro culture war battles
MLive.com
By Jeff T. Wattrick | MLive.com Mouthpieces for North Korea's chubby, Toni Kukoc-loving new leader expressed outrage this week that South Korea won't attend Kim Jong Il's funeral. Dec. 23, New York Times: North Korea urged South Korea on Friday to ...
MLive.com
Three Books, Two Tales
Dissident Voice
Scenes From Occupied America is a well-conceived and attractive book about the first weeks of the Occupy Wall Street movement that was recently published by the Left imprint Verso Books. It reads like a journal, except the entries are not from just one ...
Egypt - Where They Have Burned Books...
AllAfrica.com
Lillian Boctor speaks to artist Adham Hafez [MP3 - 7.8MB], one of the volunteers working to savebooks and manuscripts from the damaged building. On 16 December 2011, Egyptian military forces violently attacked the three-week sit-in at the Cabinet ...
Iran buys foreign forbidden books for research
Tehran Times
He said that most of the books have been printed by publishing companies from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In addition, a number of the books have been published by the United Arab Emirates University. The MLMDC will keep the books in a ...
Direct publishing of e-books offers hope for long-form journalists ...
By Jeff Sonderman
The Radar interview has insights on the pricing dilemma, the writing process and the traditionalpublishing industry. Mathew Ingram analyzes what Amazon can do for authors and journalists. || Earlier: In the year of the e-book, 5 lessons from ...
Poynter.
Stuff this: Green design and gardening books | MNN - Mother Nature ...
By Matt Hickman
If you're still on the prowl for last minute holiday gifts and charity mugs and energy-saving light bulbs won't cut it, books are always a safe bet. That said, I've rounded up a few top-notch titles — most released over the past year and a couple ...
All MNN Content
How to Choose the Best Method for Publishing Your Book by ...
By Joel Friedlander
I met Michael J. Dowling through the blog and his very useful newsletter for authors. A ghostwriter and editor, Michael was formerly the president of a publishing company, the author of three books of his own, and an accomplished cartoonist. ...
The Book Designer
Our Favorite Books of the Year | Mother Jones
Through interviews with active and retired agents at a post in Arizona's scorching Sonoran Desert, theauthors (one a former agent) cast the force not just as enforcers but humanitarians. One retired officer recalls holding impromptu funerals in ...
MoJo Articles | Mother Jones
Google adds offline reading to Google Books Chrome app ...
By Chris Meadows
... to its Google Books app for the Chrome web browser. They tout this as offering the ability to read e-books on a plane, or. ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| ... To read your Google eBooks offline, you'll need to install the Google Books app from our Chrome Web Store and ensure your GoogleeBooks are available to read offline. Please see this article in our Help Center and follow the ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011 « A Fuse #8 Production
By Elizabeth Bird
If you had a horribly limited library budget and you could only buy 100 children's books from the year 2011, here are the hundred I would insist you get. Cutting such a list down to this number is painful to the point of insanity, but cut I did. Plus ...
A Fuse #8 Production
Books for the Creative Mind | The Creative Mind
By Douglas Eby
Here is a brief list of books to keep you thinking creatively and help develop creativity personally, as well as in educational and business settings. ... Real-life examples of artists, musicians, dancers, entrepreneurs, architects, and authors are included. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~. Creativity for 21st Century Skills: How to Embed Creativity into the Curriculum, by Jane Piirto, PhD. Describes what many creative people really do when they create. It focuses on the practical applications of a theoretical ...
The Creative Mind
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post ...
By Erica Heller
This Blogger's Books from Amazon · indiebound ... Keep in mind that the articles here are penned by young authors, so please keep criticism respectful, and help us to keep this a safe and supportive place for writers of all ages to contribute. ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Books Carved Into Amazing Sculptures | Geekosystem
By James Plafke
A better way to destroy a book than burning it, artist Guy Laramee makes extremely impressive sculptures out of books. Amplifying the impressiveness, Laramee not only sculpts the books, but tends to make one sculpture out of multiple books ...
Geekosystem
On the Books - Curbed National
By Sarah Firshein
Alana Semuels at the Los Angeles Times files a rave for Unreal Estate, the new tell-all tome by real estate author and journo Michael Gross. "It can sometimes read like...
Curbed National
Before you close the books on 2011 - Pay attention to a holiday ...
By CliffFigallo
Before you close the books on 2011 - Pay attention to a holiday reminder from the Federal Trade Commission. Like it? .... Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Holiday Giveaway: Three Real Food Books! | Nourished Kitchen
By Jenny
Enter to win Nourishing Traditions, Real Food and Full Moon Feast!
The Nourished Kitchen
New Books! « TNRDLibrary's Blog
By TNRDlibrary
Here's a list of some great new books in the library: I Am Cute Dresses: 25 Simple Designs to Sew by Sato Watanabe. Start sewing simple and adorable dresses that you'll love to wear. Sato Watanabe has designed each dress to maximize ...
TNRDLibrary's Blog
Morning Meanderings… Books and SNOW! « Book Journey
By Sheila (Book Journey)
Good morning! :D. I woke up to a powdered sugar dusting across our lawn. Yes, even as I type, I can look out the window and see it continuing… yes…. snow. I knew it was inevitable… however, looking at the weather forecast, it will be nothing ...
Book Journey
Amazon Moves Into Kids Books, Acquires ... - Publishing Perspectives
By Dennis Abrams
Amazon.com will acquire over 450 titles of Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, a leader in educational and classroom digital solutions. ... And since many of these titles are not readily available as eBooks, we see a chance to connect a terrific group of authors and illustrators with more readers. We also see the potential for similar deals across other categories in the future.” ... “We look forward to working with these respected authors and illustrators. We will continue to publish these ...
Publishing Perspectives
Startup e-Book House Releases Crime Anthology
Publishers Weekly
by Calvin Reid Looking to practice what he preaches about digital media, Michael Wolf, vp of research at GigaOM, a technology news and analysis blog, has launched Bstsllr.com, an e-book publishing house specializing in crime and mystery fiction. ...
Publishers Weekly
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