James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell

James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell Like Crazy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
To date, the 65-year-old author has published 95 books—his most recent, “Guilty Wives,” hit shelves this week—and according to Nielsen ranks as the country's top-selling author. Those numbers have added up to big business: Mr. Patterson earns more ...

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76; known for his gritty tales of the US ...
Washington Post
Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy, said his ex-wife, Sally Ellis Crews ...

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Florida (AP) — Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Florida. He was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy, ...

Free Books: Concord Free Press Creates New Nonprofit Publishing Model
Huffington Post
This book costs $0.00. "Round Mountain" is one of seven novels published so far by Concord Free Press, which, as its name implies, is a nonprofit that creates free printed books that can be requested via their site. The only condition is that the ...

Robert Giard / WW Norton & Company
San Francisco Chronicle
She taught at San Jose State, Stanford, Rutgers, Cornell and Brandeis, writing 30books - 19 in poetry and seven in prose. Her first book of poetry, published while she was still in college, was described by the late WH Auden as "neatly and modestly ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Fifty Shades of Grey: Who Should Play Anastasia Steele?
People Magazine
By Rennie Dyball Anastasia Steele, the heroine in Fifty Shades of Grey (aka the hottest bookaround) is the object of Christian Grey's affection ... and obsession. Now that the book will be made into a movie, the task of finding just the right actress ...

Book review "The Vanishers:" a troubled psychic probes the past
The Seattle Times
Julavits reads Wednesday at Seattle's University Book Store. By Agnes Torres Al-Shibibi Theauthor will read from and sign copies of "The Vanishers" at 7 pm Wednesday, University BookStore, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle; free (206-634-3400 or ...

Book review: 'Dropped Names,' by Frank Langella
Washington Post
“Dropped Names” is a melancholy book, though it could hardly escape being so, of course, since all of the people profiled in it — save one, the centenarian Bunny Mellon — are dead. This is not to say that the book lacks some raucous and entertaining ...

“The Red Book,” by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Washington Post (blog)
And yet I'm not sure it's a compliment to say that Deborah Copaken Kogan's novel “The RedBook” is a lot like one of those journalistic provocations. Kogan's premise is in equal measures clever and nauseating: Four roommates from Harvard University's ...

5 book-to-screen adaptations hoping for 'Hunger Games' level of success
Tulsa World
But remember: The makers of "The Golden Compass," "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and "Eragon" all thought they were turning popular young-adult booksinto hit film series, too. The story: Author Orson Scott Card's book is set in the earth's future, ...

Tulsa World

On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women
New York Times
If “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious literary attention? Or would this novel (which I loved) have been ...

'The Sugar Frosted Nutsack,' by Mark Leyner
New York Times
He is either a genius or a freak, and it may not matter which, because his booksare compulsively readable, created by a literary mind that seems to have no precedent. In his second novel, “Et Tu, Babe,” published in 1992 (following his 1990 debut, ...

New York Times

New Book Reignites the Fire in Relationships
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author Sue Harlow pens new collection of sensual stories, In the Mood BENICIA, Calif. (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 After a couple gets married, it is often easy to lose the spark, with added responsibilities getting in the way of sensuality, whether it be ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Hunt for KSM'
Washington Times
It is also a dramatic account of how the decade-long persistence and hard work of FBI and CIA investigators eventually succeeded in tracking and bringing KSM and his associates to justice, although, as described in great detail by the authors, ...

Washington Times

New Book Argues Against Islam in America
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author Kalai-o-Waha urges Americans to remove radicals from the United States. Honolulu, Hi (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 In his new book "On Guard, America: A Challenge To Islam - Forcing The Enemy Out From Within - Why The Muslim Brotherhood Will Fail" ...

Author Q&A with Rachel Maddow
Chicago Sun-Times
By MARY HOULIHAN March 29, 2012 8:40PM Rachel Maddow said she didn't expect political polar opposite Roger Ailes to endorse her book, but that both “enjoy confounding people's expectations.” By Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow's new book Drift: The ...

Movie vs. Book: 'The Hunger Games'
Huffington Post
It seems all that anyone is talking about lately (and not ONLY in the book world) is the new 'Hunger Games' movie adaptation. Die-hard fans of Suzanne Collins's book were ridiculously excited, as well as non-fans who just wanted an easy way to see what ...

New Picture Book is a Colourful Addition to the Hullaballoo Adventures
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author tells an engaging tale that will captivate young readers from the first page until the very last SURREY, Australia (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Lotsa is an unusual octopus. Unlike the regular octopus, which has eight legs, Lotsa has 18 multi-coloured ...

Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76
New York Times
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems ...

The Nickel City packs a literary punch: Small presses hold court in western ...
New York Daily News (blog)
BY BRIAN MIHOK The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair came and went last Saturday: six brief hours of people showing off their small press wares, buying books and prints, and taking breaks to the curb for a couple tacos from one of the Nickel City's handful ...

'Game of Thrones' showrunners on making season 2, splitting Book 3 and their ...
Entertainment Weekly
Without revealing any major spoilers, find out which characters get more screen time this year, how the producers pulled off shooting dragons, battles, magic and direwolves, some of the changes from George RR Martin's “Song of Ice and Fire” book series ...

Author Shares the Story of Her Personal Journey
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
New book rivets readers with an inspiring and moving true story of one woman who fought life against all odds Malaga, Spain (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Feminist and author Amparo Calvo Echeverría boldly unveils the story of her life with the release of her ...

A new season brings new baseball books
MLB.com
(AP) With Opening Day just around the corner, there is no better time to dig into a new batch of baseball books to help celebrate the new season. This spring provides a number of strong books for baseball fans. It is all about the traditional turning ...

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What Movies, Shows or Books Do You Wish Had Sequels, Spinoffs or New Episodes?
New York Times (blog)
What movies, television shows or books have you loved so much that you wish they could continue in some way? How — whether through a sequel, spin-off, or missing chapter, episode or scene — would you bring the story or characters back?

E-books are the fastest-growing area of book sales, especially for youngsters
VentureBeat
Year-over-year, e-book sales have skyrocketed, especially for young adult and kids' titles. In January 2011, publishers sold 3.9 million children's and young adults e-books. One year later, that monthly sales figure is up to a whopping 22.6 million.

VentureBeat

Former Goldman Executive Is Said to Complete Book Deal
New York Times (blog)
By JULIE BOSMAN 10:20 am | Updated Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive whosebook proposal for a coming-of-age story about his 12 years at the firm set off a fierce bidding war among New York publishers, has made a deal with Grand Central ...

Book Review: Little Miss Merit Badge: Memoir by Ronda Beaman
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG In her newest book, Little Miss Merit Badge, a memoir, author Ronda Beaman offers a humorous account of her life on one level while, on another level, sharing the angst and pain of growing up in a dysfunctional family ruled by a verbally abusive ...

COLUMN: Books and movies are great, but please keep them separate
Central Michigan Life
I am sensing a trend that movies will never be as good as their book counterparts. However, I don't understand why. I read and enjoyed all three “Hunger Games”books and the movie. Books and movies are completely different mediums and should be valued ...

Central Michigan Life

Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market : CJR
I've never understood quite why, in a digital age that allows companies to sell directly to their customers, that book publishers, record labels, writers, and artists have allowed third parties like Amazon and Apple to seize outsize control of ... That's a big reason I, for one, still haven't bought an e-reader. ... In bringing these books to the digital marketplace, Pottermore, the business created to sell the ebooks, has forced Amazon into perhaps the biggest climbdown in its corporate history.
CJR

E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge | paidContent
By Laura Hazard Owen
E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge. Comments (View); Text Size: A A; Email · Share. New monthly stats from the Association of American Publishers show strong growth for both print ande-books in January 2012. The AAP is beefing up ...
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Sony Picks Up Literary Adventure 'Royal Honour Society' (Exclusive ...
By Borys Kit
Think of it as a reverse League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Alan Moore-written comic bookseries later turned into a 2003 Fox movie that featured the famous creations of many late-19th century authors. PHOTOS: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big ...
Hollywood Reporter

State of the Computer Book Market, part 1: Overall Market - O'Reilly ...
By Mike Hendrickson
Simply put, whenever you buy a technology-oriented book in the United States, there's a high probability it will get recorded in this data. There are now two major Retailers in Tech books and they are: Barnes & Noble, and Amazon and they ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...

Growth of e-books reduces overall value of book publishing market ...
By Chris Meadows
Bowker blames the decrease on the rise of e-books—even though people are buying more e-books, the price of the e-books tends to be lower (especially since so many of them are self-published). E-books made ... According to Bowker, that low average e-book price is due not least to purchases from self-publishers and new media companies, which the research company puts at “perhaps a fifth” of total e-book purchases by volume in 2011 although just 4% by value. Of course, this ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

MJ Rosenberg: Why Peter Beinart's Book Is Driving the "Pro-Israel ...
By MJ Rosenberg
No matter that his love for Israel suffuses his entire book or that he is an observant Jew. For the "pro-Israel" right, Beinart is the enemy. Understanding the right's feelings about Beinart may be more the job of a psychologist than a pundit ...
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Warren Adler: What Is a Literary Novel?
By Warren Adler
Then there are those authors that were less popular in their time like the Brontës, Jane Austin, George Meredith and others who have climbed into the literary canon. Other books have been lifted from obscurity to world wide literary grandeur ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

A Book Update | Support Your Local Gunfighter
By Wyatt Earp
I know the original book post is still at the top of the page, but I wanted to post a quick update on how things are going. (If you're new, ... For those of you in Rio Linda, that's a total of 74 books in a little under two weeks. The numbers are good, ...
Support Your Local Gunfighter

Remembering The Lost Art Of Book Binding: Video |Gay News|Gay ...
By Andrew Belonsky
Remember books? They were those things people read before television and the internet and the iPad. Sometimes judges would throw them at criminals, and other times people would sit on them for an extra boost, or use them to prop...
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Vintage Book Clocks Transform Dusty Volumes Into Time-Keeping ...
By Matthew Rubino
Vintage Book Clocks transform dusty old tomes into fresh modern timepieces that give the agingbooks a new lease on life. The Venice, CA-based designers scour boutique bookstores and private collections for books and transform them into ...
INHABITAT

This Week In Photography Books – Javier Arcenillas
By Jonathan Blaustein
So when the book ended up in my pile, (by Javier Arcenillas, published by FotoEvidence in Brooklyn,) I was relieved and disturbed at the same time. While I would normally drop into a story about the dangers I faced traveling in Guatemala ...
A Photo Editor

Turn the page: the book on the making of Flipboard | The Verge
By Bryan Bishop
Craig Mod is a writer and designer who was one of the team members behind the original Flipboard app for the iPhone. In an essay on his blog, he takes a look at Flipboard for iPhone, a physical book...
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Jan Berenstain | Kidsreads
The Book Report Network · Our Other Sites · Bookreporter · 20SomethingReads · Teenreads · Kidsreads · ReadingGroupGuides · GraphicNovelReporter ...
www.kidsreads.com/authors/jan-berenstain

Q&A With Rose's Will Author, Denise DeSio
Shalom Life
Brooklyn-born author, Denise DeSio joined us for a Q&A to discuss her debut novel, Rose's Will. If you haven't had a chance to read the book, it is currently available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers (see links at the bottom ...

Shalom Life

'Rock Bottom' Author Michael Cooley
GoLocalProv
He's reading from Rock Bottom Friday night, March 30, at the Barnes and Noble in Middletown from 6-8pm. GoLocal caught up with Cooley to talk about his journey, and the chronicling of it. Can you briefly summarize the bold strokes of "Rock Bottom?

GoLocalProv

Famous author 'visits' school via Skype
Reminder Newspapers
By Colin Rajala - Staff Writer Prudence Crandall Elementary School students listen as famous author Andrew Clements talks to them via Skype. Photos by Colin Rajala. The Prudence Crandall Elementary School made Enfield public school system technological ...

Reminder Newspapers

Interview: Alma Katsu, author of 'The Taker'
USA TODAY
But now it's getting even more buzz, in part because Barnes & Noble recommended The Taker for readers who like the massively popular Fifty Shades of Grey. Alma's book is not considered erotica, though it does feature a dark sexual thread, ...

USA TODAY

Does Agency Pricing Lead to Higher eBook Prices?
Huffington Post (blog)
Retailers earn a commission of 30 percent of list price for acting as the seller's agent, and then the seller (in this case the author, publisher or distributor) earns 70 percent of the list price. When Apple launched its iBookstore in early 2010, ...

New York City Books Weekend March 30 – April 1
Examiner.com
... David Copperfield, and The Pickwick Papers in celebration of the author's 200th birthday. Friday, March 30, 7 pm Free. Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th St. Teen authors event “Every You, Every Me” with David Levithan, Andrea Cremer, ...

A List of Promising First Novels for Spring/Summer
Library Journal
Dau's “sobering and accomplished” chronicle of an orphaned Muslim boy and an American soldier; selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program as well as Powell's Indispensables. (LJ 1/12) DuBois, Jennifer. A Partial History of Lost ...

And then there was one: Chapter closes on last North Tahoe independent bookstore
Sierra Sun
Eight local writers from all shores of Lake Tahoe will read their work at Ledbetter Terrace, at Lake Tahoe Community College, on Friday, June 8, at 7 pm, on Tahoe's South Shore. Bona Fide Books also is accepting submissions from local writers for an ...

Spare Times for March 30-April 5
New York Times
31) This exhibition, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth (her actual birth date is Jan. 24), includes family photographs, books and ledgers documenting the book-borrowing habits of her father, George Frederic Jones.

A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild ... - Barnes & Noble
Dear Reader, The Discover selection committee had nothing but accolades for Cheryl Strayed's captivating, audacious memoir of her solo hike on the 1100-mile ...
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BAREFOOT SEASON Q&A with author Susan Mallery - Barnes ...
BAREFOOT SEASON Q&A with author Susan Mallery .... I will always love writing romance, and BAREFOOT SEASON certainly includes romance, but with my ...
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Feminist poet Adrienne Rich dead at 82

Adrienne Rich, U.S. Poet, Feminist Activist, Dies at Age 82
Bloomberg
Rich was born on May 16, 1929, in Baltimore and published her first book of poems in 1951, while still a student at Radcliffe College. Before her graduation, her poetry was chosen by WH Auden for publication in the Yale Younger Poets series.

Bloomberg

Pioneering feminist poet Adrienne Rich dead at 82
Reuters
By Steve Gorman | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, a feminist literary figure celebrated as much for deeply personal reflections on her own life as for sometimes-biting social commentary, has died at age 82, family members said ...

A Poet of Unswerving Vision at the Forefront of Feminism
New York Times
She wrote two dozen volumes of poetry and more than a half-dozen of prose; the poetry alone has sold nearly 800000 copies, according to WW Norton & Company, her publisher since the mid-1960s. Triply marginalized — as a woman, a lesbian and a Jew — Ms.

New York Times

Adrienne Rich, renowned feminist poet, dies at 82: Santa Cruz luminary ...
San Jose Mercury News
By JM BROWN - Santa Cruz Sentinel Poet Adrienne Rich addresses dinner guests after receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2006 National BookAwards in New York. Rich, who had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s, ...

Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies at 82
Kansas City Star
By MARY ROURKE Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literaryhonors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82. 

R.I.P. Adrienne Rich, Baltimore-born poet
Baltimore Sun
In the essay "Taking Women Students Seriously," published in her book" On Lies, Secrets and Silence," she wrote of the school: "We were taken to libraries, art museums, lectures ... given extra French or Latin reading. ... In a kind of cognitive ... 

Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies
Chicago Sun-Times
15, 2006 file photo, poet Adrienne Rich addresses dinner guests after receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2006 National Book Awards sponsored by The National Book Foundation in New York. 

Adrienne Rich, 82, renowned poet
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John Timpane Adrienne Rich, 82, a poet who for five decades always seemed to be in the vanguard of America's political, social, and literary changes, died Wednesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif., from complications of rheumatoid arthritis. 

The Politics and Poems of Adrienne Rich
New York Times (blog)
By JOHN WILLIAMS In 1973, reviewing Adrienne Rich's seventh book of poems, “Diving Into the Wreck,” Margaret Atwood called it “one of those rare books that forces you to decide not just what you think about it; but what you think about yourself.

At 98, once-illiterate lobsterman is an author
The Associated Press
"I was so happy that I went straight to the ice cream parlor," he writes in his book. "I got a glass of milk, a piece of apple pie, a dish of ice cream. After I finished eating I had just enough money to buy a small pack of firecrackers.

The Associated Press

Newly revealed Ernest Hemingway letters show his softer side
USA TODAY
BOSTON (AP) – Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn't part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a collection of the author's papers at the Kennedy presidential library.

Ernest Hemingway shows soft side in newly public letters
Telegraph.co.uk
Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn't part of his usual macho persona in 12 letters that were released on Wednesday in a collection of theauthor's papers at the Kennedy presidential library. A portion of an Aug. 6, 1953, letter written by ...

Harry Potter eBooks Available for Library and School Lending Worldwide ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The seven-book series in eBook and digital audiobook format is now available to be added to the collections of more than 18000 libraries and schools in more than 20 countries. Library patrons and students will be able to check out the titles beginning ...

Book Talk: Witch trials and sleuthing in 1890s Maine
Reuters
A lawyer turned novelist, Shields - who has described himself as a "literary tomb raider" - found himself inspired by the history of his hometown of Portland as well as odd bits of news, such as the fact that six bodies believed to be buried in one ...

Special Report: How Book-to-TV Adaptations Handle Spoilers
Seattle Post Intelligencer
But how do you avoid spoilers when your hit show - like Pretty Little Liars, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter, True Blood and The Secret Circle, all known for shocking twists - is based on a series of books?

Who's got 'Fifty Shades' fever?
Boston.com
Earlier this month, the book's author, a former TV executive from Britain, writing under the pseudonym EL James, lived out a different kind of fantasy whenpublisher Vintage Books, part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, bought the world ...

Boston.com

Adults Should Read Adult Books
New York Times
Or a Twilight book. Or Harry Potter. The only time I'm OK with an adult holding a children's bookis if he's moving his mouth as he reads. I'm sure all those books are well written. So is “Horton Hatches the Egg.” But Horton doesn't have the depth of ...

RA Dickey's new book excerpted: 'Wherever I Wind Up' chronicles pitcher's ...
New York Daily News
In these passages from the book, Dickey describes scenes from his extraordinary life - the abuse, swimming with alligators, and getting back to the major leagues with the Mets. My fourth-grade teacher is a man named Mr. Hazen, and I like him from the ...

New York Daily News

FICO Author Publishes How-To Guide for Knowledge Automation in the Era of Big Data
MarketWatch (press release)
The book provides a how-to guide for improving business processes by automating business knowledge, which includes not just human knowledge but "artificial" knowledge extracted from data using analytics. Knowledge Automation: How to Implement Decision ...

Amanda Hocking: 'A lot of authors tend to over market'
mediabistro.com
A lot of authors tend to over market or they don't take criticisms very well. They think that their book is perfect. They don't want to get bogged down with editing or covers, because they think their book is so good. Or they market too hard.

mediabistro.com

Author Paul O'Hara Gives a Discourse on Ethics in New Book
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
In this book, he gives interesting points and key answers to thought-provoking questions, such as: Which is the more important; is it more important that we pursue happiness, or is it more important that we pursue virtue? How should our moral outlook ...

New Book Encourages Women to Seek a Loving God
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Diane Sillaman disproves theories that God is anti-woman, encourages closer faith Canon City, Co (PRWEB) March 29, 2012 Diane Sillaman's new book "Woman" (published by AuthorHouse), lifts up God's role in a woman's life. It traces Biblical interactions ...

Harry Potter eBooks at Your Library
mediabistro.com
The library partnership comes just days after the books were released digitally by Amazon and Barnes & Noble. eBookNewser has more details: “The seven bookseries can be checked out from more than 18000 libraries and schools in more than 20 countries.

mediabistro.com

'Mommy porn' novel has retro message
CNN
Just this week, Universal Pictures acquired the movie rights to the bodice ripper for reportedly more than $5 million as traditional publisher Knopf/Vintage promises to turn the book, which has been sold mainly as an e-book, into a paperback version ...

Potter magic: Lower e-book prices?
MSN Money
By going it alone -- without the big publishers or e-book stores, she may also be inadvertently casting a price-lowering spell on other e-books, experts say. Rowling's new website is Pottermore. When the site is fully operational, those who venture to ...

'Fifty Shades' stays hot in book list Top 10
USA TODAY
By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY For the second week in a row, all three books in EL James' erotic Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy are in USA TODAY's top 10, with Fifty Shades of Grey leading the pack at No. 5. In the series, college student Anastasia Steele ...

USA TODAY

Dara-Lynn Weiss, Author Of Vogue Article 'Weight Watchers,' Signs Book Deal
Huffington Post
According to Jezebel, it is, and the author deserves the backlash she's faced over the past week, all of which is about to be magnified. Weiss, a Manhattan socialite, has landed a book deal, Mediabistro's GalleyCat reports, and the tentative title is ...

Kindle Fire Update Brings Sharing, Book Extras, Print Replica ...
By Chris Velazco
Be warned though students — speaking as someone who tried in vain to give up textbooks in exchange for their e-book editions for a semester, you'd best be prepared for a bit of learning curve. If nothing else, the update makes it easier for ...
TechCrunch

Harry Potter E-Books, Digital Audiobooks In Libraries Today ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Two days after the Pottermore shop launched, Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks will be available in libraries as of noon ET today. The Harry Potter digital materials are distributed to libraries through OverDrive. They were available ...
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Book Review: Desperate in Dubai » Muslimah Media Watch
By safiyyah
British-born Al-Hakawati says she knew she had to write a book about Dubai the moment she arrived in what she describes as the “craziness and diversity” of the city. She initially chose to write anonymously due to the salacious nature of the book, particularly as ... She has faced some hiccups along the way, with her blog being banned and her books being temporarily taken off the shelves in Dubai. Al-Hakawati felt it important to delve into aspects of women's lives that are normally ...
Muslimah Media Watch

Harry Potter eBooks Now At Libraries - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books now available in eBook and audiobook form through libraries thanks to a new partnership with OverDrive. The seven book series can be checked out from more than 18000 libraries and schools in more than ...
eBookNewser

What public domain ebooks have you downloaded? - latimes.com
By Carolyn Kellogg
What public domain books have you downloaded to your iPad (or phone, ereader or other tablet)? ... books published long ago. We asked on Twitter what ebooks you've downloaded to read on your favorite electronic device. These were your ...
Jacket Copy

Tent That Looks Like A Book - Field Candy Fully Booked Tent ...
By Briana Mowrey
The waterproof flysheet looks just like a giant book, right down to the pages and the barcode and ISBN number on the back. book tent. The tent's price tag really doesn't make it all that practical, but you still have to admire the creativity that went ...
Design Happens

'Hunger Games' Movie Fuels Sharp Rise in Book Sales - The ...
By Andy Lewis
Publisher Scholastic announced today that there were 36.5 million copies of the bestselling trilogy in print, a 55 percent jump from the 23.5 million copies in print at the start of 2012. The Hunger Games book sales are now ... The books have been on The New York Times bestseller list for three consecutive years and Amazon recently announced that writer Suzanne Collins was the bestselling author of all-time on its Kindle ereader. PHOTOS: 'Hunger Games' Mall Tour Featuring Stars ...
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Why did Facebook trademark the word "book"? Is that legal? | The ...
By Hot Word
When you logged onto your Facebook account today, you agreed that: “You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Bookand Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except ...
The Hot Word | Hot & Trending...

A Gorgeous Look at How Books Are Born
By Andrew Tarantola
A Gorgeous Look at How Books Are Born Sure, high speed printers can spew out the WSJ's full daily circulation in five hours but where's the soul in that? Where's the craftsmanship? To see the magic of traditional book-making in action, check ...
Gizmodo

Pics from the Book Party | The Reformed Broker
By Joshua M Brown
If you're gonna spend a year writing, editing and promoting a book - you'd better damn well throw a party when it's released! So that's what we did. My thanks to everyone at McGraw-Hill, StockTwits, Jordan and Charles from Street Meet, ...
The Reformed Broker

Does Agency Pricing Lead to Higher Book Prices? | TeleRead ...
By Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords
Agency pricing allows the publisher (or the indie author) to set the retail price of their book. ...Ever since we adopted the agency model, however, I had faith that in a free market ecosystem where the supply of product (ebooks) exceeds the demand, that suppliers (authors and publishers) would use price as a competitive tool, and this would naturally lead to .... Keep in mind, in mid 2010, Amazon controlled 80-90% of the US ebook market, so such policies putauthors in a tough bind.
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Seth's cover unveiled for new Lemony Snicket book | Robot 6 ...
By Kevin Melrose
Little, Brown has revealed Seth's cover for Who Can That Be at This Hour?, the eagerly awaited first book in a new series by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler), whose 13-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. ... As is customary for Lemony Snicket books, the cover unveiling comes with a warning: “I suggest extreme caution … ... Without a doubt the best Canadian graphic designer working in the literaryfield at the moment.
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Beth Groundwater: Today's Author Guest: Jeffrey Marks
By Beth Groundwater
From the early chapters of setting up a website and writing copy about your book to niche marketing, this book contains information necessary to navigate the quickly changing environment of bookselling. The fourth edition has a brand new chapter on social ... My goal when I'm looking is not to find a group of authors who are promoting their own books, but to find sites that are mainly interested in listing new titles for me to read. In this manner, I can find the latest releases of my favorite ...
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At 98, once-illiterate lobsterman is an author - Yahoo! News
A granddaughter had the idea of sending the book on a cross-country journey as a literary chain letter of sorts, great-great granddaughter Maxine Smith said.
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Mostly Everybody's "Still Crazy About Harry"

'Harry Potter' e-books: game-changers for the digital world?
Christian Science Monitor
In a major departure from industry standards, the Potter e-books aren't locked with encryption, allowing consumers to share and read the books on multiple devices. In other words unlike a typical e-book, the same Potter e-book downloaded from ...

Christian Science Monitor

Harry Potter breaks e-book lockdown
SiliconValley.com
If "Pottermore," JK Rowling's new Web store, proves a success, it could provide a model for other authors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com, which dominates e-booksales. "I think it's a very large crack in a dam that's going to ...

Amazon, B&N Make Concessions for 'Potter' e-Books
Fox Business
Amazon.com Inc and Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled Harry Potter e-books on Tuesday in deals that suggest the companies made big concessions with author JK Rowling for electronic access to the hit series. Amazon said it struck a distribution deal with JK ...

JK Rowling's E-Book Wizardry
Portfolio.com
The author of the best-selling Harry Potter series unveils a new, cryptic website that hints at more from the boy wizard. But what exactly does she have in store? If you're a top-level manager in line to inherit the mantle of CEO one day, ...

Portfolio.com

Harry Potter breaks e-book lockdown
Kansas City Star
By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer FILE - This Aug. 1, 2006 file photo shows best-selling author JK Rowling reading from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during "An Evening With Harry, Carrie & Garp," at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Kansas City Star

Utah author & officer releases new book for kids
Main Street Business Journal
GEORGE, UTAH - Utah columnist and author TS Romney released his new book in February for kids ages 9 to 12 with a topic that nearly every child can relate to: bullying. In his book, “The Legend of the Bully Slayer: The Dishonor Roll,” Romney takes a ...

Harry Potter, Now in eBook Format, Gets No Love from Apple
Mobile Marketing Watch
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Sony, author JK Rowling's “Pottermore” website unveiled its bookstore feature on Tuesday, with all seven titles now ready for purchase. Apparently, Rowling and “Pottermore” are still in talks with ...

Mobile Marketing Watch

Harry Potter and the Portable E-books: Rowling's website breaks with book ...
Newser
1, 2006 file photo shows best-selling author JK Rowling reading from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during "An Evening With Harry, Carrie & Garp," at Radio City Music Hall... (Associated Press) FILE -- In this Friday, July 15, 2005 file photo ...

Book Review: Kathryn Leigh Scott's 'Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood'
Examiner.com
Actress and author Kathryn Leigh Scott, with collaborator Jim Pierson, has written a new book, “Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood.” The book chronicles five decades of the “Dark Shadows,” the classic Gothic horror soap opera that made sympathetic ...

How to Self-Publish Your Own Book
LifeGoesStrong
Learning how to produce volumes through print-on-demand solutions isn't just a viable and lucrative solution for today's author. It's also often a better approach to business, letting you break into the market overnight, enjoy higher profits and save...

Life

Mickelson, KPMG team up to bring books to kids
USA TODAY
Off the golf course, Mickelson is about to turn hats into books. The four-time major champion is pairing up with KPMG LLP to launch this week Blue for Books, a nationwide charitable initiative designed to put thousands of books into the hands of ...

USA TODAY

Harry Potter e-books available at JK Rowling's Pottermore store
CBS News
The site announced Tuesday that it was the only place to buy all seven English versions of the Harry Potter e-books. Amazon and Barnes & Noble are both promoting the e-book, but you'll be redirected to Pottermore to make your purchase.

CBS News

Harry Potter soars into ebook era
Tampabay.com
Although Rowling's books have sold a staggering 450 million copies worldwide in print since the first was published 15 years ago, they have never before been available in ebook format — by far the fastest-growing segment of the book market. The ebooks ...

This Week's Cover: 'The Hunger Games' and 'Fifty Shades of Grey' are both ...
Entertainment Weekly
by EW staff The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey: two literary sensations that have whipped readers into a frothy frenzy. The librarians of the world must be (very quietly) ecstatic. Last weekend the first film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' ...

Summary Box: Harry Potter in e-book form
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP BEYOND PRINT: Harry Potter novels are available for sale as e-books and audio books. FILE This Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 file photo shows author JK Rowling signing a copy of her book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in New Orleans.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Dwyane Wade writes book
ESPN
The book talks in part about Wade's struggles growing up in Chicago and how he's incorporating some of the lessons he learned into raising his own family. "For me, it was therapeutic to do this," Wade told The Associated Press.

Harry Potter ebooks now available through Pottermore
Geek
It's the books that garner the most interest though, and JK Rowling decided to take a different approach to releasing them in digital form. Rather than just releasing them as ebooks through a range of online stores, it was announced last year that the ...

Geek

Self-Publishing a Full-Color Book for Children Just Got Easier
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Denver, CO (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 Outskirts Press, the fastest growing self-publishing andbook marketing company, announced today its new "One-Click" publishing package for authorsof children's books. The publisher has created a simple one-click ...

Five questions with author Judith Viorst
Kansas City Star
By NANCY CHIPMAN POWERS Judith Viorst, 81, is the author of eight collections of poems for adults, five nonfiction books and nearly 20 books for children. She also wrote a column for Redbook magazine for more than 25 years. Viorst may be best known for ...

Amazon, B&N make concessions for Potter ebooks
Reuters
By Alistair Barr (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled Harry Potter e-books on Tuesday in deals that suggest the companies made big concessions with author JK Rowling for electronic access to the hit series.

All-Star turning author: Heat star Dwyane Wade writing book on fatherhood
Washington Post
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat is becoming an author. William Morrow announced plans Wednesday to publish “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger than Basketball,” to be released in September. The book talks in part about Wade's struggles ...

Summary Box: Harry Potter breaks e-book lockdown
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP WHAT'S DIFFERENT: The Harry Potter books that went on sale in electronic form aren't locked down by encryption. FILE - This Aug. 1, 2006 file photo shows best-selling author JK Rowling reading from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during "An ...

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Mets' R.A. Dickey reveals details of child-sex abuse in new book
Boston Herald
The Mets pitcher's new book, “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball,” hits shelves Thursday. And it arrives with the surprising and tragic revelation that Dickey was abused by two people — first a female baby ...

How Pottermore cast an ebook spell over Amazon
The Guardian (blog)
Take a look at Amazon's ebook site and do a search for Harry Potter books and you will see something genuinely marvellous. Something that will warm the cockles of every publisher in the land, and perhaps even a few booksellers too. Well, for a start, ...

The Guardian (blog)

Controversial Author Clifford Irving Publishes 12 Rare Books on Kindle & Nook
MarketWatch (press release)
ASPEN, Colo., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Best-selling author Clifford Irving, once the most newsworthy writer in America, announced that a dozen of his books, including the notorious Autobiography of Howard Hughes, and Jailing, ...

Harry Potter ebooks available at Pottermore
Gant Daily
NYC, NY, United States (AHN) – Thanks to the magical and wonderful world of technology, the heavy Harry Potter tomes are now available in ebook form. The ebooks can be downloaded on the Pottermore website. Prices range from $7.99 to $9.99.

'Harry Potter' e-books go on sale online
College Times
The books by JK Rowling can be purchased on Pottermore.com for $7.99 for the first threebooks, $9.99 for the last four installments, or $57.54 for the series. “Today is a great day for 'Harry Potter' fans and e-book readers alike,” said Charlie ...

Summary Box: Harry Potter tales on sale as e-books
Boston.com
LONDON—NOW IN E-BOOK: At last, Harry Potter's adventures are available electronically. JK Rowling's seven novels about the boy wizard are available as e-books and digital audio bookson the author's Pottermore website. WHAT'S AVAILABLE: The first ...

'Harry Potter' e-books go on sale
Bend Bulletin
By Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The “Harry Potter” series, which has conquered media from hardcover books to movies, is finally available in electronic bookformat. The books by JK Rowling can be purchased on Pottermore.com for ...

Harry Potter Books Skip iBookstore, Come to iPad
The Mac Observer
JK Rowling's popular Harry Potter book series is finally available as iPad-compatible ebooks, but the titles aren't available through Apple's iBookstore. Instead, Ms. Rowling is maintaining control over the ebook distribution process.

Haney book, Tiger videogame hit stores
Yahoo! Sports
A new tell-all book by former Tiger Woods swing coach Hank Haney arrived in stores on Tuesday, the same day the golf star's new videogame hit the shelves. The well-timed product releases come two days after Woods ended a 2 1/2-year win drought in PGA ...

Yahoo! Sports

Author Naomi Ragen ordered to pay damages in plagiarism case
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli author Naomi Ragen, convicted of plagiarism, was ordered by a Jerusalem court to pay nearly $63000 in damages to author Sarah Shapiro. The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday ordered Ragen to compensate Shapiro, of Jerusalem, ...

Summary Box: Harry Potter and the Portable E-books _ breaking with book ...
Washington Post
WHAT'S DIFFERENT: The Harry Potter books that went on sale in electronic form aren't locked down by encryption. WHAT THAT MEANS: Consumers can move them between devices and read them anywhere they like. E-books from major publishers are typically sold ...

Meredith Vieira Productions Partners With Author Solutions to Source New Ideas ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Working with Author Solutions and having access to their catalog of more than 175000 books provides us an excellent opportunity to source great new ideas and fresh content," said Vieira, who currently heads MVP with producing partner Amy Rapp, ...

New Books Celebrate the Color of Spring
New York Times
Two luxuriant new picture books beautifully capture this sense of awe. “Green,” by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (“First the Egg,” “One Boy”), is one of those deceptively simple picture books that to the casual bookstore browser can seem to be about nothing ...

New York Times

Harry Potter e-book reaction roundup | TeleRead: News and views ...
By Chris Meadows
The major e-book sellers referring their users to buy e-books elsewhere like this is something that's never happened before (even if, as Mike Shatzkin points out, both booksellers are certainly getting a cut of each sale they refer over). ... Rowling has struck deals with major ebook stores to funnel people into her website, meaning if you pull up a Harry Potter title somewhere like the Kindle Store, you are asked to click through and set up a separate Pottermore account, then go through ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Harry Potter Series Arrives In E-Book Format To The Delight Of ...
By Mary Beth Quirk
It's not just Harry Potter, either — while e-readers are getting cheaper, e-book prices have been rising. That price discrepancy has led to the Justice Department investigating book publishers for reportedly scheming to keep prices high across ...
The Consumerist

Excerpts From Dickey's New Book - NYTimes.com
By By KEN BELSON
Excerpts From Dickey's New Book. By KEN BELSON. The New York Mets. R.A. Dickey's new memoir, “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball,” written with the Daily News reporter Wayne Coffey, is a ...
Bats

JK Rowling's Pottermore Breaks eBook Lockdown, Might Change ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK — When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on Tuesday, it was as if Harry himself had cast the "Alohomora" spell on them – the one that unlocks doors. ... If "Pottermore," J.K. Rowling's new Web store, proves a success, it could provide a model for otherauthors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com Inc., which dominates e-booksales. .... Harry Potter Author JK Rowling To Publish First Adult Novel, Blair Partnership Announces ...
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Steve Kettmann: Book Review: The Google Way to be Calmer ...
By Steve Kettmann
Longtime Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan's new book Search Inside Yourself, with the subtitle, "The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (And World Peace)," is based on a program of the same name the author helped ...
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Harry Potter E-Books Finally Available - Mac Rumors
By Jordan Golson
The Harry Potter books have been made available as e-books for the first time, nearly 5 years after the release of the final book in the series. The books are available directly from author J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website. The complete ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

'Harry Potter' Books Finally Available In E-Book And Audio Formats ...
By THE DEADLINE TEAM
Just ahead of the planned early April launch of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's full Pottermore site for all things Hogwarts, e-book and audio book versions of all seven Harry Potter bookswere made available today on the site. This is the first ...
Deadline.com

Top 20 Free eBook Apps Of The Week - eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
Explore these 20 free apps and find out what kind of literary apps succeed in this crowded marketplace. We spotlight the top grossing book apps, the top paid Android books apps and the most popular free apps every week. Below, we've listed ...
eBookNewser

Review: The Book of Blood and Shadow « A Chair, A Fireplace & A ...
By Liz B
A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc. 2012. Reviewed from ARC from NetGalley. The Plot: It started simply enough: a senior year independent study at the ...
A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy

Do we really need tablets and eBook readers? - Pocket-lint
By Chris Hall
Responses came back as "ebooks are utterly pointless" or that they "feel antiquated". The opinion of many is that the tablet, ... I'm not talking about comic books or textbooks, I'm talking about biographies, novels, literature, the best sellers, the Man Booker winners, the Orange Prize for Fiction nominees, the Richard and Judy Book Club selection, that surprise debut hit, that novel you read those years ago that's been made into a Hollywood blockbuster. If you haven't picked up a book to ...
Pocket-lint : Latest News

US-born author to pay plagiarism damages in Israel - Yahoo! News
Publish your own activity and retain full control. ... reproduced material from Shapiro's autobiographical book, "Growing with my Children," for her own novel " Sotah." Ragen, who moved to Israel in the 1970s, is known for books focusing on ...
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