E-book production overtakes hardbacks in 2011
The Bookseller
Publishers produced 149800 new books and new editions in 2011, down from the 2009 high point of 157039 and down from last year's 151959; this was despite the growing number of e-books published with separate ISBNs from their print equivalents.
The Bookseller
The Bookseller
Publishers produced 149800 new books and new editions in 2011, down from the 2009 high point of 157039 and down from last year's 151959; this was despite the growing number of e-books published with separate ISBNs from their print equivalents.
The Bookseller
Harry Potter e-books coming to schools, libraries
Washington Post
Opening up the Harry Potter books for a new generation of readers, OverDrive announced Monday that it has worked out a deal with JK Rowling's Pottermore to bring the series to e-readers to school and public libraries. “JK Rowling's Harry Potter is a ...
Washington Post
Opening up the Harry Potter books for a new generation of readers, OverDrive announced Monday that it has worked out a deal with JK Rowling's Pottermore to bring the series to e-readers to school and public libraries. “JK Rowling's Harry Potter is a ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Michael D. Schaffer and Bill Reed MEL EVANS / AP In January 2011, Jan Berenstain displayed the first two books that she and husband Stan created. The one at right was the first to call the characters the Berenstain Bears. The Solebury resident died ...
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain Bears children's books, dies at 88
Washington Post
Jan Berenstain, the children's author who with her husband created the Berenstain Bears, whose winsome antics filled more than 300 picture books and helped guide millions of young readers through the vicissitudes of childhood, died Feb.
Jan Berenstain dies at 88; co-creator of the Berenstain Bears empire
Los Angeles Times
Jan Berenstain and her husband, Stan, published their first Berenstain Bears bookin 1962. Three hundred titles about the family of bears that deal with everyday problems appeared, as well as videos and TV shows. Jan Berenstain displays a copy of the ...
Los Angeles Times
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of Berenstain Bears children's books with husband ...
Washington Post
PHILADELPHIA — Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88. Berenstain, a longtime resident of Solebury in ...
Jan Berenstain: Berenstain Bears co-author dies aged 88 after suffering fatal ...
Daily Mail
By Laura Cox The author of the beloved Berenstain Bears children's books died on Friday, aged 88, Associated Press reported. Janice Berenstain and her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and ...
Daily Mail
Harry Potter e-books get worldwide library distribution
Calgary Herald
British distributor OverDrive has struck a deal with Pottermore — the online home of all things Potter — to distribute Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks in school and public libraries worldwide. The deal calls for the books to be ...
JK Rowling's new book has already cast its spell
Rocky Mountain Collegian
That's right: JK Rowling is writing a new book. Now unless you've been living in a cave on Mars and have only recently come to Earth, you know exactly who JK Rowling is. You know what she gave to the world –– and it wasn't just a series of fantasy ...
How to convert your book from InDesign to Kindle in 10 minutes or less
ZDNet (blog)
ZATZ is a very unusual book publisher. We put tremendous work into creating amazing books…and then we give them away for free, at least digitally. Through a grant of rights from ZATZ Publishing to the nonprofit US Strategic Perspective Institute, ...
ZDNet (blog)
Literary World Remembers Children's Book Author Jan Berenstain
CBS Local
By Molly Daly PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A local children's author and artist whosebooks have entertained young readers for 50 years has died. Jan Berenstain died Friday in Bucks County. She was 88. “She was just a remarkable person, and a remarkable mom, ...
CBS Local
Harry Potter e-books coming soon
ABC2 News
Part of a collection of 550 first edition Harry Potter books are displayed on February 28, 2008 in London. Bloomsbury Auctions are selling the collection, known as 'The Property of a Gentleman', in their Children's and Illustrated Books, …
ABC2 News
Harry Potter e-books coming to schools, libraries around the world
Christian Science Monitor
Pottermore has partnered with e-book company Overdrive to bring electronic versions of the 'Harry Potter' series to libraries and schools in five languages. By Molly Driscoll, Monitor contributor / February 27, 2012 Harry Potter e-books in schools and ...
Christian Science Monitor
Audio books at World Book Fair
Zee News
No worries you can always 'listen' to your favourite book while cooking, jogging, driving or even when out buying groceries, thanks to a range of audio books that have been available in the country for some time now. Audio versions of about hundred ...
Zee News
Jan Berenstain, cocreator of the Bear family, dies at 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Just two days earlier, she had still been at work in the studio, illustrating two books that will appear later this year, said her son, Michael Berenstain, an artist who has been her coauthor in recent years. The books, which Michael Berenstain will ...
Jan Berenstain Dies at 88; Created Berenstain Bears
New York Times
She was 88. Her death was confirmed by her publisher, HarperCollins. With her husband, Stan, who died in 2005, Ms. Berenstain wrote more than 300 books, most of them offering moral lessons through the lives of a tidy nuclear family of plainspoken bears ...
E-books available at Vernon Parish Library
Leesville Daily Leader
In addition, patrons may download from a catalog of more than 200 audio books. Up to five e-books and five audio books may be checked out at a time. Titles are primarily non-fiction, for both adult and young readers. After two weeks, the e-book or ...
Book banning helps fundamentalists: Taslima Nasreen
Daily News & Analysis
Actually it is the politicians of the Indian subcontinent who have labelled me anti-Islam by banning my books and calling them controversial," she said. Taslima's comment comes less than a month after the Kolkata Book Fair authorities cancelled the ...
Berenstain Bears co-creator: It's all about family values
Chicago Sun-Times
25, 2011 file photo, Jan Berenstain works on art for a Berenstain Bears book in Solebury, Pa. Jan Berenstain, who with her husband Stan created the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died.
A tribute to famed children's book author, Jan Berenstain
Mother Nature Network (blog)
I was sad to hear the news yesterday that Jan Berenstain, co-author of the legendary series of Berenstain Bears books, has passed away. But after 300books and 88 years of extraordinary life, I guess it was time for Jan to say goodbye.
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Famed children's book co-author Jan Berenstain dies
CNN International
Berenstain and her husband, Stan, were already successful cartoonists when they decided to transition to writing children's books. According to publisher Harper Collins, "The Big Honey Hunt," published in 1962, was the first book starring the bear ...
Tracking Teens: NJ author Matthew Quick has another novel on deck
Philadelphia Inquirer
But Quick's last two books have been young-adult fiction, first with "Like a Rock Star" and now with "Boy21," which hits bookstores next Tuesday. Quick will do a reading of "Boy21" at Collingswood High School on Monday. "Boy21" is about Finley, ...
Flavorwire » Literary Mixtape: Randle McMurphy from 'One Flew ...
By Emily Temple
If you've ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too. But wonder no ...
Flavorwire
Amazon can change self-published e-book pricing at will | TeleRead ...
By Chris Meadows
A reminder today that, if you self-publish with Amazon, you're not guaranteed to be in control of your e-book pricing. Fantasy author Jim C. ... This is a big deal because when a bookstore puts his pro-published books on sale, he still gets full royalties out of them—but when Amazon does, the royalty is calculated from the sale price. He did still get 70% ... If a publisher had done something like that with one of its authors' works, the author's agent would have interceded. But, Hines points ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
'The Descendants' Author Insults 'The Artist'
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The author of "The Descendants," Kaui Hart Hemmings, may not be very happy that the film adaptation of her book was overlooked for Best Picture last night.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
'Clojure Programming' book finished | cemerick
By Chas Emerick
I'd hoped that the book would be published before Clojure/West in mid-March, but alas, it was not to be. It looks like it'll drop in mid-April. However, fret not! If you want to dig into Clojure Programming right away, you can read the final draft of it ...
cemerick
'Harry Potter' E-Books Get Worldwide Library Distribution | The Wrap ...
By Tim Kenneally
British distributor OverDrive has struck a deal with Pottermore -- the online home of all things Potter -- to distribute "Harry Potter" e-books and digital audiobooks in school and public libraries worldwide. The deal calls for the ... The "Harry Potter" book series, which has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, is credited with sparking an enthusiasm for reading in a generation of children. ... Share. Tags: Harry Potter, harry potter books, harry potter ebooks, J.K. Rowling, Media ...
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'Sweet Bird of Youth,' 'Jungle Book' Musical Will Bookend Goodman ...
By By PATRICK HEALY
The Tony-winning director Mary Zimmerman (“Metamorphoses”) will adapt and mount a musical version of the Disney movie “The Jungle Book” at the Goodman Theater in Chicago next year, the latest attempt by Disney Theatrical Productions ...
ArtsBeat
Authors strut their stuff - Books
By webmaster@phx.com(EUGENIA WILLIAMSON)
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 7 pm | free | harvard.com. RICK MOODY + TANYA DONELLY | April 10 | In the decade since the author of The Ice Storm was last a precocious darling of the literary fiction scene, his interests ...
Arts
By webmaster@phx.com(EUGENIA WILLIAMSON)
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 7 pm | free | harvard.com. RICK MOODY + TANYA DONELLY | April 10 | In the decade since the author of The Ice Storm was last a precocious darling of the literary fiction scene, his interests ...
Arts
By Mark Liberman
Literary histories of this period have tended to pivot on William Wordsworth's rebellion against a specialized “poetic diction” — a story that would seem to suggest that the diction of 19c poetry should be less different from prose than 18c poetry had been. But that's ... When you stumble on an interesting problem, the question arises: do you blog the problem itself — or wait until you have a full solution to publish as an article? ... The goal is to find the other blog written by the same author.
Language Log
The Rent Is Too Damn High Now Available for Preorder
Slate Magazine (blog)
By Matthew Yglesias MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. You can get it for your Barnes & Noble Nook here or from Apple for your iOS ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
What's happening in Mercer County: Feb. 28
Mercer Space
Author Melissa Lane talks about her book. 7 pm (609) 924-9529. 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.princetonlibrary.org. Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at St. Gregory the Great Church. Music and presentation. For all ages. Reconciling in the evening.
Exclusive Interview: Self-Published Author Kerry Wilkinson Outsold Patterson ...
WebProNews
By Mike Tuttle · 13 hours ago · Leave a Comment Kerry Wilkinson was the best-selling ebookauthor on Amazon for the last quarter of 2011. And, Kerry Wilkinson does not have a publisher. Let's take a moment to let that process.
Interview (and giveaway): Lori Foster, author of 'A Perfect Storm'
USA TODAY
By Pamela Clare, USA TODAY USA TODAY best-seller Lori Foster loves her work. She loves her characters, loves exploring their lives, and loves giving them the happy endings they deserve. But Foster doesn't stop there. A firm believer in "happily ever ...
USA TODAY
A Ghost at Stallion's Gate, Top-Selling B&N NOOK E-book for Write Words Inc.
Wire Service Canada (press release)
Book publisher Write Words Inc. reports Elizabeth Eagan-Cox's novel, A Ghost at Stallion's Gate, is the top seller from January's 2012 Barnes and Noble booksellers NOOK list. WireService.ca Press Release - Feb 27, 2012 - Arline Chase of Write Words, ...
New Online Tools Make E-Book Self-Publishing Easier ...
It's now easier to self-publish an e-book thanks to new online tools. ... These new online toolslet you upload your books to Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Nobles Nook, Apple's iPad, ... One romance author averaged $2000 a month in royalties.
gator1965.wordpress.com/.../new-online-tools-make-e-book-s...
Literary histories of this period have tended to pivot on William Wordsworth's rebellion against a specialized “poetic diction” — a story that would seem to suggest that the diction of 19c poetry should be less different from prose than 18c poetry had been. But that's ... When you stumble on an interesting problem, the question arises: do you blog the problem itself — or wait until you have a full solution to publish as an article? ... The goal is to find the other blog written by the same author.
Language Log
The Rent Is Too Damn High Now Available for Preorder
Slate Magazine (blog)
By Matthew Yglesias MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. You can get it for your Barnes & Noble Nook here or from Apple for your iOS ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
What's happening in Mercer County: Feb. 28
Mercer Space
Author Melissa Lane talks about her book. 7 pm (609) 924-9529. 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton.princetonlibrary.org. Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at St. Gregory the Great Church. Music and presentation. For all ages. Reconciling in the evening.
Exclusive Interview: Self-Published Author Kerry Wilkinson Outsold Patterson ...
WebProNews
By Mike Tuttle · 13 hours ago · Leave a Comment Kerry Wilkinson was the best-selling ebookauthor on Amazon for the last quarter of 2011. And, Kerry Wilkinson does not have a publisher. Let's take a moment to let that process.
Interview (and giveaway): Lori Foster, author of 'A Perfect Storm'
USA TODAY
By Pamela Clare, USA TODAY USA TODAY best-seller Lori Foster loves her work. She loves her characters, loves exploring their lives, and loves giving them the happy endings they deserve. But Foster doesn't stop there. A firm believer in "happily ever ...
USA TODAY
A Ghost at Stallion's Gate, Top-Selling B&N NOOK E-book for Write Words Inc.
Wire Service Canada (press release)
Book publisher Write Words Inc. reports Elizabeth Eagan-Cox's novel, A Ghost at Stallion's Gate, is the top seller from January's 2012 Barnes and Noble booksellers NOOK list. WireService.ca Press Release - Feb 27, 2012 - Arline Chase of Write Words, ...
New Online Tools Make E-Book Self-Publishing Easier ...
It's now easier to self-publish an e-book thanks to new online tools. ... These new online toolslet you upload your books to Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Nobles Nook, Apple's iPad, ... One romance author averaged $2000 a month in royalties.
gator1965.wordpress.com/.../new-online-tools-make-e-book-s...
Ashley Barron: Dear Barnes & Noble (Part One)
And, no surprise here, today I am writing to you about that miracle invention, the book. Why? ....Barnes & Noble needs to get with the trend of us Indie Authors.
blog.thepriyas.com/2012/02/.../dear-barnes--noble-part-one.as...
Love & Terror in the Middle East, author event at Barnes & Noble in ...
Love & Terror in the Middle East, author event - Your source for local - Talks & Lectures events in Santa Rosa, CA.
www.zvents.com/.../245535304-love-terror-in-the-middle-east...
Digital Digest: New Tools Transform Self ... - Poets & Writers
Thanks to the accessibility of new digital tools, that picture is expanding. The e- publishing world holds new promise for writers venturing out on their own, ...
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