Seattle Post Intelligencer
Photo: Chad Rachman / AP NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Christopher Hitchens are doing more than mourning his death: They're buying his books. "Arguably," an essay collection released in September, and "God is Not Great," his 2007 best-seller, ...
PLUGGING INTO LOCAL BOOKS: Area publisher has gift suggestions — with an ...
The Morning Journal
So, are publishing companies happy about the new technology? “I think eBooks are great,” Gray said. “So are print books. I read both kinds myself. “And we'll be publishing both formats as long as enough people want to use them. ...
The Seasoned Collector: Books for antiques buffs, plus holiday toy exhibit
San Jose Mercury News
By Steven Wayne Yvaska Digital publishing is here to stay, but I still prefer to hold a book and admire the pretty pictures. With this in mind, I give you my 2011 roundup of books meant to please the antiques buff on your holiday gift list: Anyone ...
About books: Les Roberts' 'Milan Jacovich' book set in Northeast Ohio
Canton Repository
Perhaps to readers, but his relationships with other characters in Roberts' books have been tenuous through the years. “He's gotten older, and he's probably gotten one concussion too many,” Roberts explains in a question-and-answer session distributed ...
Get Ready For Next Year's Garden With A Few Good Books
Buffalo News
Other plant genera also have their writers, so for collectors seek out serious authors such as Michael Dirr on hydrangeas or viburnums. New books have probably emerged recently on most specialty plant topics, from clematis and roses to bonsai and ...
Russell Hoban, author of 'Riddley Walker,' dies at 86
Washington Post
In his five decades as a writer, Mr. Hoban drew comparisons to fantasy authors JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. He shared their basic philosophy that children's literature, and imagination, need not be only for the young. “At his best,” Washington Post book ...
Carus Publishing to be sold to ePals
LaSalle News Tribune
Carus Publishing Co. includes Cricket Magazine Group, Cobblestone Publishing and Open Court Publishing and publishes 14 children magazines and hundreds of booksas well as Web and mobile applications. ePals is an education technology company and ...
LaSalle News Tribune
Books take on financial bailouts
Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Suppose you live in a city," the authors write, "and someone, like the government, comes in and says it wants to cut out half the pizza places in town, and the few remaining franchises in town are then given the business of the closes ones, free. ...
The Art of Publishing
Times of India
KOLKATA: The Seagull Foundations for the Arts in association with Seagull Books supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy of New Delhi, launched The Seagull School of Publishing in Calcutta recently. It was inaugurated by Ann Ollestad, ambassador of ...
Is Slate's Amazon-defending blogger really a 'moron'?
Christian Science Monitor
By Randy Dotinga / December 16, 2011 Farhad Manjoo, a writer for Slate, drew controversy after writing a recent column with a headline that stated 'buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you. ...
Christian Science Monitor
Does It Matter That Kindle Books Were $9.99 Before Anyone Used E-Readers?
MocoNews
In 2008, when I was working at Publishing Trends, I researched the availability of the top 30 New York Times bestsellers (for the week of March 30, 2008) as e-books through Amazon, Sony, Mobipocket, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Adobe and Palm (NYSE: HPQ). ...
Forbes Announces Publishing Partnership with Google Currents
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Dec 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Forbes announced today a publishing partnership with the recently launched Google Currents, a new application for Android devices, iPads and iPhones that lets consumers explore online magazines and other ...
The Bay Area's Leading Tibetan Buddhism Bookstore, Dharma Publishing Announces ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Dharma Publishing bookstore in the heart of downtown Berkeley has begun its first ever store-wide sale for the holiday season. Offering 20% off on all books as well as on all kinds of unusual and exquisite gifts from around the world. ...
Books of the year: Part 1
The Australian
James Bradley, novelist and critic: I spent this year bemused by the contrast between the ongoing anxiety about the future of publishing and the brimming vitality and confidence of the work being released. Highlights included David Foster Wallace's ...
Books of the year: Part 4
The Australian
Her latest book is New and Selected Poems, a typically beautiful piece of publishing. She interrupts herself whenever a line of hers might be headed for the expectable, for any cliched situation. She is a maker of striking and resonant phrases, ...
Two new books by Utah writers explore words that heal
Salt Lake Tribune
She also knew she should include accounts from her son, who suffered years of pain so intense he ripped up phone books for distraction. “When your family survives something like that, you just want to move past it as quickly as possible,” said Whiting, ...
Books of the year: Part 5
The Australian
Janette Turner Hospital, novelist: When I'm working on a novel, I avoid reading contemporary fiction but revel in books of ideas, memoirs, biographies. Of the books I read this year, my favourite is Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt, who wrote -- as he ...
Save $200 When Self-Publishing This Holiday Season
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
And, of course, all authors publishing with Outskirts Press keep 100% of their royalties, 100% of their rights, and 100% of the control. "I have published four books with the Outskirts Press Diamond Package," says veteran author Andrew Rodriguez. ...
BESTOWING BOOKS: We're going out on a limb today
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
Publishers far and wide send us copies of books in the fervent hope that we'll review them. Thebooks on this list didn't make the cut, but we think they deserve good homes. If you see one you like, email me at egross@freelancestar.com. ...
Top 10 gift books for travellers and wannabees
Ottawa Citizen
But that's the great thing about giving travel books as gifts: you get to set things in motion and see what happens, without actually underwriting the whole trip. Friends and relatives already planning a trip will appreciate the help of a guidebook or ...
Garden plot to books: Give a truly organic 'gift of love'
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Attracting Native Pollinators: Protecting America's Bees and Butterflies by The Xerces Society (Storey Publishing; $29.95). Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs by Tammi Hatung (Storey Publishing, 2011; ...
Best of 2011: Books and Comics
FEARnet.com
by Joseph McCabe, Today 12:00 PM PST This year saw the usual parade of macabre work in books and graphic novels, from reliable creators like Stepen King (11/22/63), Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (Locke & Key Volume 4: Keys to the Kingdom), ...
FEARnet.com
Freakonomics » Let's Hear About Your Favorite Football Books
By Stephen J. Dubner
I have read a lot of NFL books (too many!) and the sad fact is that football has produced far, far less good literature than baseball. When Nicky and I started talking about the best football book, we each came up with the same title: George ...
Freakonomics
Fotopedia Shifts From iPad Books To Photozine With “Wild Friends ...
By Erick Schonfeld
Fotopedia has built a nice little franchise putting out digital photo books re-imagined for the iPad. After 9 apps and 6.2 million downloads, with 1.4 million active users and 100 million pageviews a month, it is taking a more magazine-liek ...
TechCrunch
German Publisher Ponders Moving Abroad to Avoid Fixed Prices ...
By Amanda DeMarco
The fixed price system is good for physical bookstores, and therefore also for publishers whosebooks are stocked in those stores. But what about publishers with other profiles? Utz Verlag mostly publishes scientific works — doctoral theses, ...
Publishing Perspectives
Bibliotherapy - the healing power of books | Brain Blogger
By Veronica Pamoukaghlian, MA
Bibliotherapy: more than a passing fad. Depending on individual motivations and the type of pyschological problems in question, it would appear that reading books can heal.
Brain Blogger
Convert Web Pages Into E-books With dotEPUB
By Umut M.
The application creates the e-books in EPUB format and comes in 3 flavors: bookmarklet to be installed on browsers; a chrome plugin; widget for integration into websites. For further customization or any custom implementations, dotEPUB has ...
WebResourcesDepot
This Week In Photography Books
By A Photo Editor
I was unfamiliar with the Swedish photographer, Klara Källström, and the publisher, B-B-B Books. I'm a sucker for ... Normally I don't bother writing about the essays in these photo-books, because if we wanted to read, we'd all just buy a Kindle. ...
A Photo Editor
Publishing News: "Hating Amazon is not a strategy" - O'Reilly Radar
By Jenn Webb
Amazon's Price Check promotion caused quite the kerfuffle last week, and the publishing industry arguably made the most noise — which is interesting, as books were not included in the promotion.... in which he noted responses from his fellow writers: "I wondered what my writer friends made of all this, so I dashed off an e-mail to Scott Turow, the president of the Authors Guild, and cc'ed Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, Andre Dubus III, Anita Shreve, Tom Perrotta and Ann Patchett. ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
Books from Dreamhaven
By Pat
Lovely books from Dreamhaven Books, and a rare screenplay of Gaiman's. ... The book Stephen King wrote in an attempt to keep other people from becoming authors. A first edition hardcover copy of The Knights of the Black Earth by Margaret ...
Patrick Rothfuss - Blog
8 Must-Read Books on Mindful Eating | Psychology Today
By Dr. Susan Albers, Psy.D.
These are eight solid books that can help you understand the principles and exactly how to eat mindfully. Each book is each written from a different perspective and by authors with various backgrounds and clinical experience. 1) Eating ...
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