Why Book Publishing Can Survive Digital Age

Why Book Publishing Can Survive Digital Age: Echoes
Bloomberg
And with e-books priced so low, how can authors and booksellers earn a decent living? Yet the publishing industry has a long history of weathering these sorts of challenges, and its past offers some optimism for the future. In the 1920s, drug, ...

E-books Can't Burn by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review ...
In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival of printed books. Jonathan Franzen has also declared himself of the same faith. At the university where I work, certain professors, old ...
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BOOKS: Poetry and memoirs
Kennebec Journal
Maine author Katherine Mayfield announces the publication of her memoir, “The Box of Daughter” (Maine Authors Publishing Jan. 12, 2012), which details her journey of healing after enduring decades of emotional abuse in her family, as stated in a news ...

Snuff books cash in on Whitney Houston's death
New Zealand Herald
By Bronwyn Sell Self-published e-books documenting Whitney Houston's life began popping up hours after her death. Photo / AP Just hours after Whitney Houston died in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, self-published e-books documenting her life and death ...

New Zealand Herald

Nature Publishing Group Officially Launches New Interactive Textbook
TechCrunch
Last spring I wrote about Nature Publishing Group's plan for a $49 electronic textbook packed with interactivity and unlimited content updates for life. The original publication date was scheduled for September 1, 2011, but for a variety of reasons the ...

TechCrunch

Books find new homes through online sales
Emporia Gazette
I rarely buy books in hard cover any more. Cost is the main factor. Plus, I'm now the proud owner of a Kindle, which has a keener sense of appreciation for my wallet than the publishing industry. I've only had it a couple of months and I've read Frank ...

Books For Girls: Madeleine L'Engle And The Heroines We Loved
Huffington Post
Probably no one has better cataloged the positive influence books like L'Engle's have on girls than Lizzie Skurnick. In "Shelf Discovery," her 2009 book-length love letter to the heroines of Young Adult fiction, Skurnick argued that up until the 60s, ...

50 Books Your Child Should Read Before Kindergarten
Patch.com
Queens mother and teacher gives her thoughts on a list of books provided by Education.com. By Jean Nastasi Last week, my good friend sent me the link to Education.com's recently published list of 50 books your child should read before kindergarten.

Stephen Huneck's Sally Series Now Available as NOOK Books at Barnes & Noble
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Trajectory, Inc. today announced NOOK® editions of Stephen Huneck's iconic Sally series of children's books. The series of seven stories includes the New York Times Best Selling title "Sally Goes to the Beach." The eBooks are available for download at ...

Amanda Knox signs book deal with HarperCollins after publishing battle
Daily Mail
Her editor will be Claire Wachtel, whose other authors have included crime novelist Dennis Lehane and journalist Cokie Roberts. Publishers in recent years have shied from controversial defendants, especially since the fiasco of OJ Simpson's 'If I Did ...

Daily Mail

Disney Publishing Worldwide Announces One-Million-Copy First Printing for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Last Guardian releases simultaneously in hardcover and as an eBook from Disney Publishing'sDisney-Hyperion imprint, and as an audio version through Listening Library on July 10, 2012. More than 13 million Artemis Fowl books are currently in print ...

Is the best eReader for library eBooks?
The Henderson Press
In other words, you can download the Library Reader (Overdrive), Kindle Reader, Nook Reader or iBooks Reader and easily read and select books from any of the major companies and libraries providing eBooks today. Finally, the iPad 2 has great sound ...

Rereading old books 'enhances the experience'
Telegraph.co.uk
Its authors Cristel Russell from the American University and Sidney Levy of the University of Arizona interviewed participants from both the United States and New Zealand. Their questions centered around the pleasure gained from the “rereading ofbooks ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Camilla joins author at books event
The Press Association
Parsons is just one of the authors involved with Quick Reads and has contributed by penning a short novel especially geared towards those who may be dyslexic, a stranger to books, or have simply fallen out of the habit of reading.

Apple adds new iBookstore publishing features | iLounge News
By Charles Starrett
... and features to the eBook publishing section of iTunes Connect. According to AppleInsider, the email touted publishers' new ability to post screenshots, receive up to 50 promo codes for each book published, offer pre-orders for certain titles before their release, and create series of books, which ties the separate volumes together on the iBookstore. The report indicates that the new features are active for both established publishers and iBooks Authors alike, and are available now.
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Indie Bookseller On E-Books: 'I Don't Think We'll Ever Make Money ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
At an O'Reilly Tools of Change panel this week, Madar told moderator Thad McIlroy that independent bookstores like Kepler's 2020 have to diversify their revenue models and move away from relying solely on selling print books – but they also can't depend on e-book sales to pick up the slack. ...Other new revenue models at Kepler's include memberships, corporate sponsorships and some monetized events like classes and “author events with big-name authors.” Kepler's started a ...
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Authors Guild calls Amazon anticompetitive | TeleRead: News and ...
By Chris Meadows
... evil or just good at business? We've carried a couple of articles lately whose authors believe the latter, but it's never been a mystery what side. ... Follow us on. Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... Neil Myers suggests a fairly draconian solution: publishers should simply go cold-turkey and stop selling to Amazon altogether, and establish their own alternative market and universal format for e-books. Publishers should be more ...
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The Books They Carry: Volume 1
By Invisible Oranges Editor
I've been waiting for this for years, a metal site that can recommend good books to read, I'm really thankful. Last book read – Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. Reply. Jeremy. Posted February 16, 2012 at 6:12 AM. This is exactly what ...
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Books | Fabric design — whip up
By kath_red
And her recent book, A Field Guide to Fabric Design (C&T Publishing November 2011), I am very happy to report does her justice. In A field guide, you will find: how to develop your design using various tools (with tutorials), how to develop a ...
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Taboo: Adventures in Banned Books - Better World Books Blog ...
By Erin
Our teacher explained to us that it was Banned Books Week, and that as good students, we should expand our literary horizons by reading these controversial books. She even noted that the administration wouldn't be thrilled with her for ...
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Rex Pickett: The 'Sideways' Publishing Saga -- The St. Martin's ...
By Rex Pickett
It didn't help to remind myself that the publishing industry was pumping out vampire books and Y/A crap and chick lit, not to mention mass market stalwarts, some of whom didn't even write their ownbooks anymore. April of '03, first draft of ... More in Books... Dirty Love Letters By Famous Authors · Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning: Famous Love Letters... Romance Novels: 10 Greatest Kisses In Literature · Top 10 Fantasy Love Stories.  ...

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A K Haart: Kindle self-publishing
By A K Haart
It has suddenly occurred to me to do a post on Kindle self-publishing. After all, I initially set up this blog with the intention of promoting my Kindle books, because that is what those who know advise. Unfortunately, the blogging elbowed out the ...
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TAMK Art and Media: ActionScript and Mobile Publishing Workshop
By DhTier
We found out that the publishing isn't that easy on iOS devices, especially when compared to publishing on an Android device. You have to first pay a lot to register as an App Developer and afterwards you will spend hours and hours ...
TAMK Art and Media

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