The Atlantic
By Maria Popova As a hopeless bibliophile, an obsessive lover of bookcases, and a chronic pursuer of voyeuristic peeks inside the minds of creators, I'm utterly spellbound by Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books—a vicarious journey into the ...
The Atlantic
Best books of 2011
Kansas City Star
By DAVID L. ULIN Of all the books I read this year, here - alphabetically by title - are my 10 favorites, those that most stuck with me, that reframed how I think about the world. "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami (Alfred A. Knopf, $30.50). ...
Sultan donates books to Egyptian institute
gulfnews.com
The Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies is sourcing old manuscripts, books and artifacts for Cairo's Scientific Institute damaged in a fire during riots earlier this month. Sharjah: The Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies has started sourcing ...
gulfnews.com
Book Notes: Ingeborg Lauterstein releases suite of e-books
Freeport Journal-Standard
Occasionally Book Notes will focus on self-published books and new books released digitally. In this time of tremendous change in the book industry, authors no longer simply write their books and rely on publishers to sell them. Authors mount extensive ...
Books for Saskatchewan foster children
Regina Leader-Post
By Emma Graney, Leader-Post December 21, 2011 1:32 PM Deb Davies (L) executive director of the Saskatchewan Foster Families Association (SFFA) and SGI president and CEO Andrew Cartmell, with a sampling of a donation of $10000 worth of books to the SFFA ...
Free eBooks to Celebrate Hanukkah
mediabistro.com
As a small gift for GalleyCat readers, we've collected three free Hanukkah-themedeBooks–great reading for everybody in your family. Follow the links below to download for your favorite digital reading device… Jewish Treats Complete Guide to Chanukah! ...
mediabistro.com
5 great gift books for performing-arts fans
Kansas City Star
It helps if there are inviting, brightly wrapped books beneath the Christmas tree or by the Hanukkah menorah that the receivers (and maybe the giver, too) are eager to get lost in. This season offers a strong selection of book gifts for aficionados of ...
Team Anna books venue in Mumbai to protest
YouTube
Team Anna will hold its proposed protest for a stringent Lokpal Bill in MMRDA Grounds in central Mumbai.
Area Authors Share 'Chester County Fiction'
Patch.com
Now, you can print 150 books as a first print run instead of a thousand." Robb Cadigan said that the "dinosaur of traditional publishing is going away." However, Cadigan said, "the death of the book is wrong." "There are just new avenues [to getting ...
A Bounty of Books By Local Authors
Hartford Courant
I am coining a new word from my dimly remembered high-school Latin: "Localectors" — those who like to read books by local authors. Here is a sampling of recent booksby authors who live here now, or once did. Tim Page, the Pulitzer-Prize winning music...
Hartford Courant
Gift books soaked in beer
Chicago Tribune
An impressive number of books about the world's most wonderful beverage have come out in recent months and would make ideal holiday gifts. Here are a few possibilities. "Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World's Craft Brewing ...
Google eBooks Offline Support Now Available for Chrome, Chrome OS
WebProNews
Google announced the launch of offline support for Google eBooks for those using Chrome or Chrome OS, so they can continue reading books even when they're not actually connected to the Internet. “We've all been there: the Internet is suddenly down, ...
Ereaders winning battle of the books
Financial Times
By Ben Fenton and Tim Bradshaw The balance of power between books and ebooks shifts inexorably every Christmas as increasing numbers of Britons wake up to a Kindle, or similar device, by the fireside. “The growth of ereaders has been exponential for ...
Books to Give as Holiday Gifts
myfoxny.com
Patrik Henry Bass, the senior books editor with Essence magazine, talks about the best books to give for the holidays. GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (Abrams, $40), by Olivia Harrison, who was his wife, is issued in conjunction with ...
The Fix's best political books of 2011
Washington Post (blog)
Over the weekend, we asked Fixistas for their favorite political books of 2011. We got lots of great suggestions on the blog as well as via Twitter and Facebook. A book "Confidence Men" written by Ron Suskind is on display for sale at the Barnes ...
Picture books for toddlers in Iwate
The Daily Yomiuri
KAMAISHI, Iwate--Illustrator Yusaku Narushi turned his life around making picture books, and this year he is using his talent to bring Christmas cheer to children in the region hit by the March 11 tsunami. On Thursday, Narushi is scheduled to give a ...
Two Cuban Authors Compete for the World Cookbook Award
Radio Cadena Agramonet
Two books by Cuban authors have been selected to compete for the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Participating in the contest will be “Manual de conservacion de alimentos y condimentos por secado solar” (Manual for the preservation of food and ...
News of the world: Rare books burn in Egypt and more
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) An Egyptian book-restoration official arranges burned and damagedbooks. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) An Egyptian protester helps extinguish smoldering valuable books and documents salvaged from the two- story building of the Egyptian ...
5 Things: Books to Help You Recapture Christmas
Patch.com
If you've lost that holiday spirit, consider reading one of these books to remind you that it's not all about shopping and cooking and Christmas cards. By Karen Sorensen With the rush of the holiday season, what with buying gifts and sending cards and ...
Science publishing: The paper is not sacred
Nature.com
2C, 4B, and 9, a clear violation of ASM's ethical standards” 2 , to the wholly unhelpful “This article has been withdrawn by the authors”. Lines like the latter make us want to pull out whatever hair we have left on our heads. ...
Baseball Books For Xmas
Call to the Pen
If you are behind on your holiday shopping with Chanukah starting immediately and Christmas looming over the horizon, buying baseball books is one way out of your dilemma. At this time of year, wherever I have worked, I always put a stamp of approval ...
Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Michael Chabon's two first novels, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys," were released as e-books Tuesday. They're being published by Open Road Media, which has offered generous royalty rates to authors and estates for rights to e-publish ...
And the Lead Counsel in E-Books Price-Fixing Litigation Is…
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The same could be true for publishers selling e-books — but lawyer Steve Berman, with the Seattle firm of Hagens Berman, is fighting several at once. Senior US District Judge Denise Cote on Tuesday appointed him as lead counsel in a collection of ...
Hanukkah Books: A Treat for Everyone
Publishers Weekly
New in paperback this season from Kar-Ben are two photograph books. It's Hanukkah Time! by Latifa Berry Kropf, with photographs by Tod Cohen (Sept.; 2-6), follows children as they prepare for and experience Hanukkah. Harvest of Light by Allison ...
Publishers Weekly
E-Books and iPads and PDFs: Some Thoughts — Crooked Timber
By John Holbo
I make books with InDesign. Maybe that makes me biased in favor of (relatively) old-fashioned laying out of pages. But I have nagging doubts as whether this whole websites-pretending-to-be-books, custom-poured page business really is the future ... Do ugly ebooks bother you? Do you crave the ebook analog of the Protean easy chair, from Melville's Confidence-Man? “My Protean easy-chair is a chair so all over bejointed, behinged, and bepadded, everyway so elastic, springy, and ...
Crooked Timber
gulfnews.com
The Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies is sourcing old manuscripts, books and artifacts for Cairo's Scientific Institute damaged in a fire during riots earlier this month. Sharjah: The Sultan Al Qasimi Centre for Gulf Studies has started sourcing ...
gulfnews.com
Book Notes: Ingeborg Lauterstein releases suite of e-books
Freeport Journal-Standard
Occasionally Book Notes will focus on self-published books and new books released digitally. In this time of tremendous change in the book industry, authors no longer simply write their books and rely on publishers to sell them. Authors mount extensive ...
Books for Saskatchewan foster children
Regina Leader-Post
By Emma Graney, Leader-Post December 21, 2011 1:32 PM Deb Davies (L) executive director of the Saskatchewan Foster Families Association (SFFA) and SGI president and CEO Andrew Cartmell, with a sampling of a donation of $10000 worth of books to the SFFA ...
Free eBooks to Celebrate Hanukkah
mediabistro.com
As a small gift for GalleyCat readers, we've collected three free Hanukkah-themedeBooks–great reading for everybody in your family. Follow the links below to download for your favorite digital reading device… Jewish Treats Complete Guide to Chanukah! ...
mediabistro.com
5 great gift books for performing-arts fans
Kansas City Star
It helps if there are inviting, brightly wrapped books beneath the Christmas tree or by the Hanukkah menorah that the receivers (and maybe the giver, too) are eager to get lost in. This season offers a strong selection of book gifts for aficionados of ...
Team Anna books venue in Mumbai to protest
YouTube
Team Anna will hold its proposed protest for a stringent Lokpal Bill in MMRDA Grounds in central Mumbai.
Area Authors Share 'Chester County Fiction'
Patch.com
Now, you can print 150 books as a first print run instead of a thousand." Robb Cadigan said that the "dinosaur of traditional publishing is going away." However, Cadigan said, "the death of the book is wrong." "There are just new avenues [to getting ...
A Bounty of Books By Local Authors
Hartford Courant
I am coining a new word from my dimly remembered high-school Latin: "Localectors" — those who like to read books by local authors. Here is a sampling of recent booksby authors who live here now, or once did. Tim Page, the Pulitzer-Prize winning music...
Hartford Courant
Gift books soaked in beer
Chicago Tribune
An impressive number of books about the world's most wonderful beverage have come out in recent months and would make ideal holiday gifts. Here are a few possibilities. "Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World's Craft Brewing ...
Google eBooks Offline Support Now Available for Chrome, Chrome OS
WebProNews
Google announced the launch of offline support for Google eBooks for those using Chrome or Chrome OS, so they can continue reading books even when they're not actually connected to the Internet. “We've all been there: the Internet is suddenly down, ...
Ereaders winning battle of the books
Financial Times
By Ben Fenton and Tim Bradshaw The balance of power between books and ebooks shifts inexorably every Christmas as increasing numbers of Britons wake up to a Kindle, or similar device, by the fireside. “The growth of ereaders has been exponential for ...
Books to Give as Holiday Gifts
myfoxny.com
Patrik Henry Bass, the senior books editor with Essence magazine, talks about the best books to give for the holidays. GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (Abrams, $40), by Olivia Harrison, who was his wife, is issued in conjunction with ...
The Fix's best political books of 2011
Washington Post (blog)
Over the weekend, we asked Fixistas for their favorite political books of 2011. We got lots of great suggestions on the blog as well as via Twitter and Facebook. A book "Confidence Men" written by Ron Suskind is on display for sale at the Barnes ...
Picture books for toddlers in Iwate
The Daily Yomiuri
KAMAISHI, Iwate--Illustrator Yusaku Narushi turned his life around making picture books, and this year he is using his talent to bring Christmas cheer to children in the region hit by the March 11 tsunami. On Thursday, Narushi is scheduled to give a ...
Two Cuban Authors Compete for the World Cookbook Award
Radio Cadena Agramonet
Two books by Cuban authors have been selected to compete for the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Participating in the contest will be “Manual de conservacion de alimentos y condimentos por secado solar” (Manual for the preservation of food and ...
News of the world: Rare books burn in Egypt and more
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) An Egyptian book-restoration official arranges burned and damagedbooks. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) An Egyptian protester helps extinguish smoldering valuable books and documents salvaged from the two- story building of the Egyptian ...
5 Things: Books to Help You Recapture Christmas
Patch.com
If you've lost that holiday spirit, consider reading one of these books to remind you that it's not all about shopping and cooking and Christmas cards. By Karen Sorensen With the rush of the holiday season, what with buying gifts and sending cards and ...
Science publishing: The paper is not sacred
Nature.com
2C, 4B, and 9, a clear violation of ASM's ethical standards” 2 , to the wholly unhelpful “This article has been withdrawn by the authors”. Lines like the latter make us want to pull out whatever hair we have left on our heads. ...
Baseball Books For Xmas
Call to the Pen
If you are behind on your holiday shopping with Chanukah starting immediately and Christmas looming over the horizon, buying baseball books is one way out of your dilemma. At this time of year, wherever I have worked, I always put a stamp of approval ...
Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Michael Chabon's two first novels, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys," were released as e-books Tuesday. They're being published by Open Road Media, which has offered generous royalty rates to authors and estates for rights to e-publish ...
And the Lead Counsel in E-Books Price-Fixing Litigation Is…
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The same could be true for publishers selling e-books — but lawyer Steve Berman, with the Seattle firm of Hagens Berman, is fighting several at once. Senior US District Judge Denise Cote on Tuesday appointed him as lead counsel in a collection of ...
Hanukkah Books: A Treat for Everyone
Publishers Weekly
New in paperback this season from Kar-Ben are two photograph books. It's Hanukkah Time! by Latifa Berry Kropf, with photographs by Tod Cohen (Sept.; 2-6), follows children as they prepare for and experience Hanukkah. Harvest of Light by Allison ...
Publishers Weekly
E-Books and iPads and PDFs: Some Thoughts — Crooked Timber
By John Holbo
I make books with InDesign. Maybe that makes me biased in favor of (relatively) old-fashioned laying out of pages. But I have nagging doubts as whether this whole websites-pretending-to-be-books, custom-poured page business really is the future ... Do ugly ebooks bother you? Do you crave the ebook analog of the Protean easy chair, from Melville's Confidence-Man? “My Protean easy-chair is a chair so all over bejointed, behinged, and bepadded, everyway so elastic, springy, and ...
Crooked Timber
Jamaica: debating Caribbean art publishing · Global Voices
By Nicholas Laughlin
The ARC magazine blog reports on a recent panel on art publishing in the Caribbean, hosted by the National Gallery of Jamaica, with video clips of the discussion. Google +1 icon. Email this to a friend Email. StumbleUpon · delicious ...
Global Voices
Paris Lit Mag ActuaLitté Partners with Google Books to Curate ...
By Olivia Snaije
ActuaLitte partners with Google Books to help readers in France rediscover great books. ... Sinced it launched in 2004, Google Books has acquired more than 15 million books from over 40000 publishers and 40 libraries around the world. ...
Publishing Perspectives
10 Green Living Books That Make Great Last Minute Gifts | Inhabitat ...
By Bridgette Meinhold
We're counting down to Christmas this week and for those of you still looking to cross names off your gift list, we've got some great ideas for last minute gift ideas - books! As you might know, they're a gift that keeps on giving and you can get ...
INHABITAT
Books and Band Saws: the Future of Libraries | MindShift
By Tina Barseghian
By Jon Kalish, NPR. As information becomes more digital, public libraries are striving to redefine their roles. A small number are working to create “hackerspaces,” where do-it-yourselfers share sophisticated tools and their expertise. The Allen ...
MindShift
Inside Google Books: Read Google eBooks Offline!
By Inside Google Book Search
To read your Google eBooks offline, you'll need to install the Google Books app from our Chrome Web Store and ensure your Google eBooks are available to read offline. Please see this article in our Help Center and follow the simple ...
Inside Google Books
Little books: An airplane reader - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
Jacket Copy. Books, authors and all things bookish ... Independently published by Schaberg and Yakich under the imprint NO Books, "Checking In/Checking Out" serves as a model for a new kind of short-run publication: the little book. About 5 ...
Jacket Copy
Books, glorious books... - Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the Living Room
By Lynne Patrick
Books, glorious books... I can hardly believe 2011 is almost over. Don't worry, this isn't a plunge into the icy waters of nostalgia for the year just gone; I need to save something for next week's post... (just kidding). But it's been a year of change and incident. It's also been a year of great books, and plenty of them. Mostly it's been new titles by well-loved authors: J D Robb, Lee Child, Reginald Hill, and not forgetting Terry Pratchett's unique take on the country house mystery. And many ...
Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the...
A Global Perspective to Book Publishing - Author Marketing Experts ...
By Paula
For example, if you've written a business book, Korea has increasingly been interested in publishingtranslations of American business books, whereas literary fiction could go over well in France. Once you've figured out the literary appetites of ... 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 for authors and publishers. As a special welcome gift, we will also ...
Author Marketing Experts, Inc.
The Passionate Foodie: Authors, Alcohol & Accolades: Volume 1
By Richard Auffrey
Thanks to the iPad though, I can purchase ebooks and save lots of room in my house. Because of my love for books and alcohol, I devised an idea to combine these two interests in a new series I callAuthors, Alcohol & Accolades. In essence, I ...
The Passionate Foodie
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