USA TODAY
1 on a new list of the "100 Greatest Books for Kids." 'Scholastic Parent & Child' magazine ranks 'Charlotte's Web' as the No. 1 book for kids ever written. 'Scholastic Parent & Child' magazine ranks 'Charlotte's Web' as the No.
USA TODAY
Inkling Releases 'Breakthrough' Publishing Tool
Sci-Tech Today
The category of e-books is beginning to fill out. This week, a company called Inkling launched the next generation of its e-book publishing tool, called Inkling Habitat, which could substantially raise the bar and lower costs.
File sharers targeted over illegal ebooks
Financial Times
Seventeen publishing companies filed injunctions covering 170 copyrighted books in a German court. The plaintiffs include HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education. Pearson also owns the Financial Times. The action is the latest example of ...
Stars and Authors Square Off in Russia: Leonid Bershidsky
Bloomberg
But two authors have been in the front ranks of all the rallies: Boris Akunin, Russia's most famous mystery writer, and Dmitri Bykov, a prolific poet and novelist. The latter became the public face of the most recent opposition march through downtown ...
Ebooks and Libraries Don't Mix
Library Journal (blog)
However, that might have been how they started, which would explain why a week after the meetings ended, Penguin – one of the few big publishers to sell ebooks to libraries at all – ended their contract with Overdrive and now isn't allowing libraries ...
New tools make self-publishing e-books easier
USA TODAY
Amazon dominates the e-book industry, due to the popularity of its Kindle devices, and apps to read Kindle books on Apple, BlackBerry and Android devices. The company offers tips and detailed instructions for authors on how to format books at ...
USA TODAY
Are books and the internet about to merge?
The Guardian
McGuire's argument hinges on the recent emergence of ebooks as a serious contender to the print book as the dominant artefact of the publishing industry, with some suggesting that ebooks will make up 50% of the book market by 2015 thanks to the Kindle, ...
The Guardian
Wednesday book news: Readers Digest, e-books on sale and more
Los Angeles Times
Algonquin Books is having an e-books sale. The publisher asked seven of its authors to each pick a favorite Algonquin book, and those e-books are on sale this week for $1.99. The pickers include Tayari Jones, Jonathan Evison, and Heidi Durrow; ...
Rodale Books to Publish His Royal Highness Prince Charles's Landmark Speech ...
Business Wire (press release)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rodale Books is proud to announce the publication of THE PRINCE'S SPEECH: On the Future of Food by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, with a foreword by Wendell Berry and afterword by Will Allen and Eric Schlosser (ISBN: ...
Business Wire (press release)
Walker makes books personal
Cambridge Times
Walker makes books personal. Julie Walker leafs through her book, Cooper Goes To A Hockey Game, while Fun At The Beach is close at hand. Walker published Cooper Goes To A Hockey Game while being treated for cervical cancer, seven years after writing it ...
Cooking the Books: Calgary food writer tests recipe for spiced tomato soup
Calgary Herald
This new column, Cooking the Books, is set to change that. Twice a month, I'll let cookbooks fulfil their purpose: to be pulled out, cracked open and cooked from. Maybe even getting slightly splattered in the process. First up is Everyday Food: Light, ...
Banned books? Not in northwest Connecticut; Torrington Library continues ...
Torrington Register Citizen
The Torrington Library launched its 2012 lecture series earlier this month, dedicating the next year to the most frequently banned and challenged authors. Each lecture will focus on a particular author's life and the banned or challenged books they ...
Dreaming of Dresses: Transgender Books for Children
Huffington Post (blog)
However, there are a couple of picture books, which at least can be used with children up until the age of five or six, regardless of whether they are themselves trans or know any trans people. My Princess Boy, which is by Cheryl Kilodavis and ...
Three books about 'Downton Abbey'
Washington Post
The second season of PBS's Emmy-winninghit wraps up Sunday, but you can prolong your visit to the era with these books. 1) The World of Downton Abbey , by Jessica Fellowes (St. Martin's, $29.99), is hefty and lush with color photos and production ...
Books can help you understand anime, manga
Iowa City Press Citizen
The authors include a nice feature for parents in the form of a detailed “viewer discretion” summary for each anime review. Many anime and manga enthusiasts find their general interest for these Japanese congeners of American comics and cartoons ...
Q&A: The Art of Google Books
PBS NewsHour (blog)
The Art of Google Books is a Tumblr blog that showcases errors and anomalies found in the digital pages of Google Books. Krissy Wilson, the creator of the blog and a student at the University of Florida, sifts through scanned pages on Google Books ...
Inkling Habitat interactive e-book publishing platform rolls out to ...
By Donald Melanson
It's not another alternative for individual authors looking to self-publish (at least for now), but professional publishers looking to create and distribute interactive e-books now have a new option to consider in the form of Inkling Habitat. Initially ...
Engadget
Huffington Post (blog)
However, there are a couple of picture books, which at least can be used with children up until the age of five or six, regardless of whether they are themselves trans or know any trans people. My Princess Boy, which is by Cheryl Kilodavis and ...
Three books about 'Downton Abbey'
Washington Post
The second season of PBS's Emmy-winninghit wraps up Sunday, but you can prolong your visit to the era with these books. 1) The World of Downton Abbey , by Jessica Fellowes (St. Martin's, $29.99), is hefty and lush with color photos and production ...
Books can help you understand anime, manga
Iowa City Press Citizen
The authors include a nice feature for parents in the form of a detailed “viewer discretion” summary for each anime review. Many anime and manga enthusiasts find their general interest for these Japanese congeners of American comics and cartoons ...
Q&A: The Art of Google Books
PBS NewsHour (blog)
The Art of Google Books is a Tumblr blog that showcases errors and anomalies found in the digital pages of Google Books. Krissy Wilson, the creator of the blog and a student at the University of Florida, sifts through scanned pages on Google Books ...
Inkling Habitat interactive e-book publishing platform rolls out to ...
By Donald Melanson
It's not another alternative for individual authors looking to self-publish (at least for now), but professional publishers looking to create and distribute interactive e-books now have a new option to consider in the form of Inkling Habitat. Initially ...
Engadget
Smashwords Surpasses 100000 Indie Ebooks | TeleRead: News ...
By Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics · HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT ... fun to read our original Smashwords launch press release. Back then, ebooks accounted for about two-tenths of one percent of the U.S. book market. Self published authors were considered black sheep. What a wild ride it's been the last four years. Millions of books sold. Millions of readers touched by your words. Lives changed.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Building Books for Mobile - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher ...
By Anastasia Salter
However, it's not at all easy to port the finished work over to another ebook format, although the end-user license agreement has been updated to clarify that authors using the platform still own their content. The widgets feature also makes the platform easier to extend, with tools like Class Widgets offering ... [Creative Commons Licensed Photo by Flickr User purecanesugar]. This entry was posted in Software, Teaching and tagged books, ebooks, epub, mobile. Bookmark the permalink.
ProfHacker
BookType Lets You Self-Publish Books for Kindle or Any Other ...
By John Paul Titlow
Whether they're printed or laid out in pixels and read on screens, books are increasingly able to be published by their authors using a growing selection of self-publishing software and websites. Early excitement over Apple's new iBooks ...
ReadWriteWeb
This Week's Featured Authors | Envato Notes
By Adrian Try
This Week's Featured Authors. by Adrian Try posted in Authors. Feb 15. Tweet. Congratulations to this week's featured marketplace authors. nitrox Featured ActiveDen Author: nitrox. This week's featured author is nitrox, who has 9 items, ...
Envato Notes
Kirkus Launches Editing Division For Self-Published Authors ...
By Dianna Dilworth
Kirkus Launches Editing Division For Self-Published Authors. ... Joy Peskin Jumps to FSG Books for Young Readers · Alethea Spiridon-Hopson Named Managing Editor at Entangled Publishing · Comments · Share · << PREVIOUS. This Week ...
GalleyCat
3 Story Tower Made of 15000 Books About Abraham Lincoln
By EDW Lynch
This 3 story tall tower of books features 15000 different titles about President Lincoln. The tower is on display at the new Washington DC Center for Education and Leadership, a museum focused on Lincoln's legacy. The museum will open ...
Laughing Squid
A 34-foot Pillar Of 15000 Books About Abraham Lincoln To Be On ...
By rugenius
A 34-foot pillar of 15000 books about Abraham Lincoln to be on display at *rugenius. A 34-foot pillar of 15000 books about Abraham Lincoln to be on display at Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership. #46199 · notcouture Post: ...
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Wednesday book news: Readers Digest, e-books on sale and more ...
By Carolyn Kellogg
Books, authors and all things bookish ... The publisher asked seven of its authors to each pick a favorite Algonquin book, and those e-books are on sale this week for $1.99. ... More in: authors, Carolyn Kellogg, ebooks, publishing, short story ...
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Apply for the GBO Children's Books Editors' Trip to Germany ...
By Brittany Hazelwood
Trip participants will have the opportunity to network with German publishing professionals and discuss trends in Germany's YA and children's books publishing market. We will meet with editors, publishers and rights directors in Germany, ...
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