New York Times
People who read e-books on tablets like the iPad are realizing that while a book in print or on a black-and-white Kindle is straightforward and immersive, a tablet offers a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, ...
New York Times
Literary wunderkind turns 35
CNN
I. Why is this author different from all other authors? Foer seeks answers through more than just writing. He has a talent for reinventing things -- such as books, sketches and found objects -- by juxtaposing them in new ways, with things he either ...
Morning books: Climate wars, Nick Hornby, Francis Moore Lappe
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch" turns 20 this year and the British author is concerned about how soccer has changed since his enthusiastic boyhood. "Hornby questions whether the youthful addiction he had for his club can still be found among today's ...
Book lovers have many reasons to celebrate
gulfnews.com
Dubai: Book lovers across the region can look forward to a diverse range of literaryand fun activities as the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature starts on Monday. This year the festival opens its doors to at least 120 of the world's best-selling ...
gulfnews.com
Maine author King visits NH to review book
Boston.com
March 04, 2012|AP The Maine author visited New Hampshire on Saturday to interview New Jersey author Lauren Grodstein at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham. The Portsmouth Herald (http://bit.ly/yYukG3) says the event, hosted by Water Street ...
Wimpy Kid author: even my son prefers Harry Potter
Telegraph.co.uk
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor When Diary of a Wimpy Kid beat Harry Potter to be named the best children's book of the past decade, author Jeff Kinney was delighted. His nine-year-old son was less impressed. I think my son really put things in...
Telegraph.co.uk
OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Company Booki.sh
MarketWatch (press release)
CLEVELAND, OH, Mar 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- OverDrive, Inc. ( www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of eBooks and audiobooks, announced today it has acquired Australian eBook company Booki.sh ( http://booki.sh ).
Libraries joining eBook revolution
Oxford Mail
The His Dark Materials author said: “If it means more books are available to more people then I think that's a good thing.” But voicing his fears about the impact of eBooks on publishing, he added: “It's something that authors, publishers and agents ...
Shelfari Recommends Books, Gives Huge Amount of Detail About THem
PCWorld
If this ever happened to you, you may like Shelfari (free), an Amazon-related community for book lovers and authors. Shelfari exposes numerous details about each book, and lets you add and edit them."Amazon-related" means Shelfari is its own website, ...http://www.shelfari.com/
'The Lorax' film helps Dr. Seuss books flourish on book list
USA TODAY
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY 'Green Eggs and Ham' is one of the many Dr. Seuss books climbing the charts again. 'Green Eggs and Ham' is one of the many Dr. Seuss books climbing the charts again. But 21 years after his death, Theodor Seuss Geisel has ...
USA TODAY
book reveals Richard Nixon's secret shrink sessions
Fox News
Today, more than 50 years later, the contents of that file — and the true viciousness of the 1960 Kennedy and Nixon campaigns for president — have been revealed in the newbook, “The Gumshoe and the Shrink.” The shrink's patient was then-candidate ...
Fox News
Book review 'Clover Adams': a brilliant mind's path into darkness
The Seattle Times
No less a literary light than Henry James dubbed her a "Voltaire in petticoats," an apt label for a woman with a fine mind and the hospitality to attract America's best and the brightest to her parlor in the nation's capital after the Civil War.
Author Asra Q. Nomani: The NYPD Should Spy on Muslims
Village Voice (blog)
5 2012 at 11:22 AM While Mayor Mike Bloomberg has defended the NYPD's controversial practices, Asra Q. Nomani, author of Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam and co-director of the Pearl Project, has outright promoted the ...
Too many books ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Julie Gibbs, Penguin Books Cookbook sales are plummeting. Is it time for a new recipe? asks Joel Meares. IN JANUARY, keen home cook Lisa McLean threw out a dozen cookbooks that were, in her words, ''cluttering up the cupboards''.
Sydney Morning Herald
New Book Release: Magnetic Messaging: A Man's Guide to The Art of Texting
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The ebook is a guide for using texts effectively in the modern dating world. Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) March 05, 2012 Texting a Girl- an online men's site dedicated to the art of text messaging in the dating world- has released a brand new program called ...
World Book Fair 2012 ended with bigger hopes
Newstrack India
The nine day-long book fair, that was inaugurated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, Human Resource Development Minister, on 25 February 2012 was concluded on 4th March 2012. More than 7 lakhs visitors were registered in nine in the fair searching for the books of ...
Newstrack India
Book fair concludes, sees over 700000 visitors
Times of India
Focused on youth and children, the biennial World Book Fair New Delhi, organized by the NationalBook Trust (NBT) concluded Sunday, after registering over 700000 visitors. This year, a forum was provided to discuss issues concerning exchange of rights, ...
Mixbook Offers Big Photo Books, Even Bigger Savings
MarketWatch (press release)
PALO ALTO, CA, Mar 05, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mixbook, the online photo book publishing service that offers the most customizable photo books, photo cards, and photo calendars on the planet, today began the most lucrative sales event in the ...
Random House Raises E-Book Prices for Libraries as Much as 300 Percent
DailyTech
Book publisher Random House has tripled the price of many of the e-book titles it sells to libraries, and the understandably the decision is raising quite a few eyebrows. "The first thing that popped into my head was that Random House must really hate ...
DailyTech
Paypal Pressured To Play Morality Cop And Forces Smashwords To Censor Authors
Techdirt
Ebook publisher Smashwords reports that it has become one of the latest recipients of one such action. Under pressure from credit card providers, Paypal has put in place a policy that it would no longer process payments for ebooks that contained themes ...
Book publishing involves a social responsibility
Newstrack India
"Book publishing involves a social responsibility and cannot be seen only with a business point of view," said Mr. MA Sikandar, Director, National Book Trust, India in an exclusive interview with newstrackindia. "Books are written and published to ...
Newstrack India
Doyle, Shteyngart and Porter named to Giller jury
Globe and Mail
Scotiabank Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch has changed up the usual pattern of his picks for the jury that presides over Canada's most prominent literary award, choosing populist authors Gary Shteyngart and Roddy Doyle to join Canadian Anna ...
Globe and Mail
Job Spotlight: Pat Robinson, owner of Columbus Book Exchange
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com Pat Robinson, owner of Columbus BookExchange, 6440 West Hamilton Park Drive, is a retail veteran who makes a living collecting and selling comic books and paperback books. 03/01/12 Job: Owner of Columbus Book ...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
General Sir Miles Dempsey's 'secret' book discovered in safe
Daily Mail
By Nick Enoch A 'secret' book recording the precise details about the D-Day landings has been discovered locked in a safe. General Sir Miles Dempsey GBE, KCB, DSO, MC commanded the 2nd Army and ordered the account to be written shortly after the events ...
Daily Mail
Book Review: The Cure: After The Rain by Michael Fargier
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The books one finds when browsing are usually fan books. I do not think author David Fargier would disagree with me in describing his After The Rain as a fan book, because he himself states as much in the Preface. By the way, there is nothing ...
Young authors learn to improve writing skills
Asbury Park Press
Students attend the 33rd annual Ocean County Young Authors' Conference held Saturday, March 3, at Lacey High School. / Bob Vosseller/STAFF PHOTO Katherine Midili, a retired teacher from the Toms River School District who serves on the executive board ...
My New Book is here! “The Digital Photography Book, Part 4 ...
By Scott Kelby
Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, training director and instructor for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, President National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), CEO of Kelby Media Group, author of a string of ... I just downloaded it to my iPad. Too eager to wait for the physical copy to ship over hr to Ireland!!! Although I'll probably get the physical copy anyway – I hate the way ebooks massacre layouts. Mathieu Wauters. Looking forward to the book. By the ...
Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider
Bruce Schneier's Latest Book, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of ...
By Arnold Kling
It's Liars and Outliers, and I would rate it the best economics book of the year thus far. He writes about his book here and here. ... I will offer my excerpts in reverse, order, from the end of the book to the beginning. .... Pictures courtesy of the authors. All opinions expressed on EconLog reflect those of the author or individual commenters, and do not necessarily represent the views or positions of the Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) website or its owner, Liberty Fund, Inc.
EconLog: Library of Economics...
Ebooks and Apps, same challenges | Monday Note
By Frédéric Filloux
Last week, we looked at the ebook's Giant Disruption. A new ecosystem in which Amazon eats publishers' and agents' lunch by luring authors into self-publishing. Today, we examine the new regime's impact on book-making and distribution ...
Monday Note
By Frédéric Filloux
Last week, we looked at the ebook's Giant Disruption. A new ecosystem in which Amazon eats publishers' and agents' lunch by luring authors into self-publishing. Today, we examine the new regime's impact on book-making and distribution ...
Monday Note
Fifty Shades: The “Mommy Porn” Book That's Sweeping The ...
By Chiara Atik
StaceyKnows. “There is life in this book, outside of the bedroom, and in fact, there are even tons of 'vanilla moments' to make the harder stuff go down easier for some of us who might be apprehensive with these kinds of 'scenes'.” – Maryse.net ...
The Frisky
HoCo Connect: Reading a book to have a shared community ...
By duanestclair
One of the main goals of the Book Connection is to connect our community through shared learning experiences that promote productive dialogue, critical thinking, and intellectual enrichment. The committee uses the following criteria to select the book. This year, the committee is particularly interested in fiction books since we have had non-fiction books for the last two years. · The style of the book should be accessible and engaging to an interdisciplinary audience of adult readers.
HoCo Connect
OverDrive acquires Australian ebook company Booki.sh | TeleRead ...
By Paul Biba
OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of eBooks and audiobooks, announced today it has acquired Australian eBook company Booki.sh (http://booki.sh). Booki.sh is the developer of a cloud-based platform for ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Author Interview: Nikki McClure
By Design Mom
Friends, I'd like you to meet Nikki McClure, the author and illustrator of a few of my favorite books. Enjoy her words! Q: Nikki, I'm fascinated by your art and utterly floored by its intricacy. How long is the process, from concept to finished papercut ...
Design Mom
Top 5 Must-Read Books By Philadelphia Authors « CBS Philly
By cbsexaminer
“Modern Classics of Science Fiction” by Gardner Dozois. gardnerdozois Top 5 Must Read Books By Philadelphia Authors. (credit: St. Martin's Griffin). Available at: Joseph Fox Book Shop 1724 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between ...
CBS Philly
By cbsexaminer
“Modern Classics of Science Fiction” by Gardner Dozois. gardnerdozois Top 5 Must Read Books By Philadelphia Authors. (credit: St. Martin's Griffin). Available at: Joseph Fox Book Shop 1724 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between ...
CBS Philly
Author Blogging 101: The Power of Viewpoint — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Author Blogging 101: The Power of Viewpoint describes three viewpoints bloggers can adapt to relate to their readers. ... At first glance, there appear to be two common viewpoints that authors use when they start blogging: Authority—This is a standard ... He's also the proprietor of Marin Bookworks, where he helps publishers and authors who decide to publish get to market on time and on budget with books that are both properly constructed and beautiful to read. Like this post?
The Book Designer
3 Things Dr. Seuss Books Can Teach You About Money - The ...
By Phil Villarreal
Renowned children's author Dr. Seuss was great at instilling life lessons through resonant rhymes and artwork. His books also pack some poignant financial lessons. Always the Planner gleans some personal finance knowledge from Dr.
The Consumerist
Book review: A Genius For Money « Knowledge Problem
By Lynne Kiesling
I can already tell that I am going to order the book as soon as I'm done writing this post: Morrison was not an inventor-capitalist but a retailing genius, more Sam Walton than Steve Jobs. He catered to England's growing consumer class by ...
Knowledge Problem
New Book Chronicles History Of KMOX | FOX2now.com – St. Louis ...
By John Pertzborn
The history of legendary St. Louis radio station, KMOX, comes alive in a new book. It all began 87 years ago with a tower in Kirkwood and a studio in the Mayfair Hotel at 8th and St. Charles. KMOX: The Voice of St. Louis, by historian Frank ...
FOX2now.com – St. Louis News...
Books - Flavorwire
In the Harry Potter books, Hermione starts as an insufferable know-it-all, ... [she] can be seen as Hawthorne's literary contemplation of what happens .... Daenerys Targaryen from the A Song Of Ice And Fire book series would've been a good pick ... The author is also one of the more remarkable women in literature: several ...
flavorwire.com/.../10-of-the-most-powerful-female-characters-...
Children's Book Press | multicultural | bilingual | children's books
Welcome to Lee & Low Books. We are an independent children's book publisher intensely focused on diversity. Peruse our site for books for school, school ...
www.leeandlow.com/p/overview_cbp.mhtml
'Rivethead' author Ben Hamper talks about music, General Motors and upcoming ...
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
By Scott Atkinson | satkins1@mlive.com Submitted photoAuthor Ben Hamper will be signing his best-selling book "Rivethead" at Barnes and Noble March 17. FLINT, Michigan--When Ben Hamper's memoir of working on the General Motors assembly line was ...
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
Jerry & Ruth Apps, Steve Apps
Isthmus Daily Page
Come by Barnes & Noble West in Madison on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7 pm for the celebration of the release of Garden Wisdom: Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Gardening. Author Jerry Apps will give a talk about the book followed by a discussion with ...
Knoxville novelist to speak at Literacy Luncheon in Oak Ridge
Oak Ridger
Schoenewaldt's book was last spring's selection for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great NewWriters program, a Book-of-the-Month Club, and Doubleday Book Club's alternate selection for January 2011. Schoenewaldt's first novel begins in the 1880s in a ...
Author Zonie Felder Invites Readers to Join Her on the Ride of a Lifetime with ...
Albany Times Union
Never imagining at this point in her life that she would become a published author, Felder is elated to have completed one of her lifelong dreams through the publishing of her first novel. Felder's interest in relationships, the true nature of ...
Author reads 'Body of a Dancer'
North Idaho College Sentinel
“I came to get extra credit, and to learn better structure in writing,” said Nicole Jennings, 27 Paralegal, Rathdrum, Idaho. Her book is available at the Mica Peak book exchange, as well as on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and through Etruscan Press.
North Idaho College Sentinel
Prison ministry lends to first published book
Jacksonville Daily News
Author and Minister Anthony Mckoy believes there is no such thing as coincidence, but a greater divine intervention with every circumstance in life. In his first book published by Xulon Press, “The Spiritual Man Versus The Carnal Man,” McKoy encourages ...
New PIcture Book Series For Children! Spunkie Hoodle Series by Susan Waterfield
MMD Newswire (press release)
Susan Waterfield lives in the southern part of the United States. The author has a degree in English Literature. She is both writer and artist. Her books can be purchased at: www.amazon.com, Barnesand Noble, and other online retail stores.
Taking the erotic out of erotica
Gay News Network (press release) (blog)
To date, most of the titles are still available on, of all places, Barnes & Noble, smaller websites, and Amazon. Okay, I'm not pretending they're great literature like DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, or Fanny Hill, which were once banned for ...
New Tools Make Self-Publishing E-Books Easier | Sci-Tech Today
Scott Nicholson, a prolific author with 70 books to date, has found most of his ... which, in turn, can be uploaded for Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, ...
www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id...
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