Self-published authors find e-success

Self-published authors find e-success
USA Today
He is one of 15 self-published authors whose e-books, often selling for just 99 cents, have cracked the top 150 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list this year, threatening to change the face of publishing. For Prescott and a handful of others, ...
Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case
Publishers Weekly
On December 12, attorneys for the Authors Guild filed a motion for class certification, hitting the deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin at a September 15 status conference on the now abandoned settlement. The filing is the first step in the next ...
Books for every cook on your list
Chicago Daily Herald
Food-loving rockers can get the best of both worlds in “The Recipe Project” (Black BalloonPublishing), a collection of recipes by top chefs set to music. Rock out with Mario Batali's spaghetti with Sweet 100 Tomatoes or Michael Symon's octopus salad ...
This holiday season, books are back
msnbc.com
By Marisa Taylor Now that electronic readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook have been on the market for a few years, long enough to become cheaper and more ubiquitous than ever, it's no wonder that e-books have proliferated like mad....
GRAVES: eBooks may bring big changes to beloved libraries
Daily Republic
It was a good fit because I love books and libraries and, as they say, anytime you can love what you do, you won't really have to work a day in your life. Thus, the arrival of eBooks, at just this point in history, has an odd O. Henry-like ironic twist ...
Glima Publishing House Selects ThinLinc for Secure Access to Copyrighted Legal ...
Sacramento Bee
It is Glima Publishing House in Jerusalem that is solving a legal and technical challenge for the distribution of copyrighted material with Cendio's ThinLinc Linux Terminal Server solution. "We are very pleased to welcome Glima Publishing House to the ...
Local Books: patrol boats and bungalows
The Seattle Times
New in local books: "The Diary of Prisoner 17326," a memoir of a Japanese labor camp; the life and times of Bloomsbury's Samuel Koteliansky; patrol and rescue boats on Puget Sound; and a look at the work of Greene & Greene, iconic architects of the ...
7 Books With Personality: Nancy Pearl's 2011 Picks
NPR
by Nancy Pearl Although all works of fiction and narrative nonfiction have characters — be they animals, hobbits, dragons, humans, werewolves or whatever — I've found that there are some booksin which these characters are three-dimensional and ...
Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told
Register
Many publications, including printed books, maps and charts, magazines and newspapers, are zero-rated, but ebooks are classified differently. And Treasury minister David Gauke, when quizzed by Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop, reiterated that the ebook ruling ...
Great Books for Giving
Fox Providence
Jennifer Massotti from Barrington Books is here with some great gift picks for the holidays.
Mandeep Khera's Inspirational Book "Why?" Bags More Awards Including ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
was selected as a finalist in the USA Books "Best Books 2011" in the Spirituality-Inspirational category among other reputable authors like Helen Keller and Richard Singer. Earlier the book won Book- Of -The-Year Award for 2010 in the Best Self-Help- ...
It's a publishing platform for business, not a Flipboard killer
TabTimes
But if you peek under the covers, you'll find an architecture for cross-platform content publishing that kicks open a new doorway of opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses. What's apparently not obvious to many of the news reader pundits ...

Gift books for gardeners
shropshirestar.com
We all need some inspiration from time to time, so with this in mind it might be worth sticking a number of books on your last-minute Christmas list, either for a loved one or to entertain yourself. Great Gardens Of Italy, by Monty Don and Derry Moore ...
2011's Christmas tree trend: Trees made of books
Mother Nature Network (blog)
The photo was of a Christmas tree made from carefully placed books. It was very clever. After doing a little research I found that making Christmas trees from a pile of books is trendy right now, especially at libraries. WorldShares lets you earn ...
Lehman Trader Goes Mad, Geithner Saves Citi: Top Business Books
San Francisco Chronicle
13 (Bloomberg) -- Madness, hubris and betrayal: Who needs drama when all the elements of a Greek tragedy, including Greece itself, can be found in the best business books of 2011? In one, a trader from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. loses his grip and ...
Books-a-Million is Expanding as it is Imploding (BAMM, BKS, AMZN)
SmallCap Network
By Jonathan Yates With its stock price falling, Books-a-Million (NASDAQ: BAMM) is expanding rapidly to fill the void left by the bankruptcy of Borders and the travails of Barnes & Nobles (NYSE: BKS), as the entire industry suffers from competition from ...
The Phenomenal 'New York Review of Books'
The Atlantic
Hederman has guided the publication's business interests—which including a book-publishing division, NYRB, and The Reader's Catalog—with a steady focus on profitability that is intended solely to support the commitment to quality he made when he ...
KPMG Employees Nationwide 'Lend Their Voices' to Produce Holiday Books for ...
PR Newswire (press release)
13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of KPMG LLP employees in more than 85 offices across the country are uniting to read "out loud" in a firm-wide service project that will produce recordable books as gifts for disabled and underprivileged children ...
Jerry Robinson, cartonist and Batman collaborator: an appreciation
Christian Science Monitor
He said the name of Batman's sidekick was inspired by by the Robin Hood books he'd loved as a boy. Jerry Robinson, the cartoonist who named Batman's protege Robin and helped in many ways to shape the popular comic, died last week. ...
Dean Koontz and Auryn Bring Beloved Trixie Books to Life for a Charitable Cause
Sacramento Bee
"Partnering with one of the most popular authors on the planet to bring his treasured children'sbooks to digital readers for generations to come is an honor for us," said Umesh Shukla, Founder and CCO of Auryn. "We're introducing Dean Koontz fans and ...
Crayola to produce series of coloring e-books | TeleRead: News and ...
By Chris Meadows
We've seen a number of different types of books turned into e-books, so why not coloring books? That seems to be Crayola's ... Follow us on. Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME ...
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Open Source & Collaborative Document Authoring/Publishing ...
By Umut M.
Substance is an open source and web-based application for authoring and publishing documents. It offers a MS Word-like-yet-simpler and easy to use interface for creating, editing and organizing content. Any number of other users can be ...
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Greek Bookseller Fights on Despite Austerity Measures | Publishing ...
By Siobhan O'Leary
She had gone to the Big Apple to complete an MA in publishing at New York University and enhanced her studies with positions at Arcade Publishing, the consulting firm Market Partners International, and three years in forecasting at HarperCollins. ... What emerged from this change process is the Bookstop International Bookstore, a wholesaler and retailer of books for learning foreign languages (predominately English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese). The store also ...
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Holly Robinson: Upstairs, Downstairs: Torn Between My Books and ...
By Holly Robinson
Downstairs, meanwhile, my Kindle seems best suited to books by comics or mystery writers, as well as indie authors like Darcie Chan, whose books were never published by traditional publishers because they weren't deemed "good enough." ( Many of those authors, ... Different rhythms, different lives, different sensibilities lead me to choose whether I read fiction or nonfiction, short stories or poetry, ebooks or paper. .... The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle | PC Pro blog ...
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AARP's Best Books Series: Brain Fitness | SharpBrains
By SharpBrains
We are pleased to report that the AARP's Best Books Series: Brain Fitness List (link opens PDF document you can view, download and print at AARP website) ... Here you can read the full transcripts of the Q&A sessions with the authors of three of the Best Books featured in the AARP list: Dr. Gary Small on Enhancing Memory and the Brain · Alvaro Fernandez on Investing in Our Brains and Cognitive Fitness · Dr. Paul Nussbaum on Meditation and Neuropsychology. Share This Article: ...
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Gift Guide 2011: Books | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration ...
By abduzeedo
The holiday season is here and it's time to get together with our family and friends, celebrate and get ready for the new year that is about to start. As we see sites with gift guides all over the web we decided to post the Abduzeedo 2011 Gift ...
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Jeez, just what I needed...another outrage that demands my attention, energy, and blogging time to complain about. I've already got my hands full with climate change, cougar hysteria, Republican filibustering, and getting Cafe Yumm to come ...
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Largehearted Boy: Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update ...
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The Barrington Books Blog (best books) Book Riot (best books) ... Explorations (best paranormal fantasy books) Letter Blocks (favorite children's books) Christopher Kimball (top ... Seattle Times (cookbooks by Seattle authors) Simple Bites (top ...
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Gift Books | Bookstack
By Becca
Gift Books. On of my dear friends has a new gifting policy that makes a great deal of sense to me, and has asked her family to keep it in mind when purchasing gifts for her in the future. “If I can't eat it or go to it or experience it, I don't want it! ...
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