Wall Street Journal
By STU WOO EBay Inc.'s PayPal unit moved Tuesday to soften a controversial policy that would have restricted the use of its payment-processing services by digital-book merchants that sell material that could be considered obscene.
Erotic novel '50 Shades of Grey' unites gals, unnerves some guys
Fox News
Written by a little-known London author named EL James, it relies heavily on “BDSM” -- bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. Vintage Books, part of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, just released a new e-edition of the book and plans to do a ...
PayPal backs down on erotic e-book ban
msnbc.com
In an about face of a policy that in recent weeks threatened to cut off the accounts of erotica e-bookpublishers that may publish "obscene" content, PayPal has updated its policy to focus on the removal of specific e-books, rather than mandate the ...
'Godfather' Author's Son Files Counterclaim Against Paramount
BusinessWeek
s interpretation of a 1969 agreement with “The Godfather” author Mario Puzo is costing his estate more than $10 million, the novelist's son and estate executor said in court papers. Paramount, a unit of New York-based Viacom Inc. (VIA), sued Anthony ...
Blurb(R) Authors Earn $1M in Profits in 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
Author demand to self-publish books of all kinds continues to rise: Blurb's customer base grew by 44% in 2011, and the company shipped more than 1.8M books to 69 countries. The success of Blurb authors reinforces the market readiness for the ...
Books Women Read When No One Can See the Cover
Wall Street Journal
By KATHERINE ROSMAN If that woman next to you on the train seems unusually engrossed in here-reader, there may be a good reason. Electronic readers, and the reading privacy they provide, are fueling a boom in sales of sexy romance novels, ...
PayPal Forced Into Erotica U-Turn
Forbes
In addition, the policy will be focused on individual books, not on entire “classes” of books. Instead of demanding that e-book publishers remove all books in a category, we will provide notice to the seller of the specific e-books, if any, ...
How BDSM e-book "Fifty Shades of Grey" went viral
CBS News
What's remarkable about the book's popularity is its absence of a major publisher and marketing machine, not to mention a shortage of physical copies. The novel is published by Australian publishing house, The Writers Coffee Shop, and has mainly been ...
New Book Exposes Massive Corruption in the Justice System
Houston Chronicle
Within the pages of Scott Wallis's gripping new book, Secret Corruption ($14.99, paperback, 978-1-61996-211-8; $22.99, hardcover, 9781-6-1996-212-5; $7.49, eBook, 978-1-61996-213-2), the authorairs the American legal system's “dirty laundry” for his ...
Closing the Book: Encyclopedia Britannica Goes All Digital
TIME
“It's the latest step in our evolution from the print publisher we were, to the creator of digital learning products we are today.” The books were first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, before America existed. Americans eventually bought the brand at ...
Jean Giraud, the Comic-Book Artist Known as 'Moebius,' Dies at 73
New York Times
The cause was cancer, according to a statement by his publisher, Éditions Dargaud. Mr. Giraud, who used the pen name Moebius in much of his work, was seen in the comic-book world as a kind of artist-avatar of the unbounded interior human landscape.
Million-selling author Cassandra Clare signs up for new fantasy series set in ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Million-selling young adult author Cassandra Clare has signed up for a new fantasy series. Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, announced Tuesday that Clare has agreed to a three-book deal for ...
PayPal reverses its ban on 'obscene' e-books
CNET (blog)
After vocal outrage from authors, e-publishers, and free speech activists, PayPal has shifted its "acceptable use" policy on e-books containing certain erotica content. The online payment company announced today that mostly books with images will be ...
Scott Turow: Apple didn't collude, it offered an e-books life raft
Los Angeles Times (blog)
In an update on the Authors Guild website, he writes: We have no way of knowing whether publishers colluded in adopting the agency model for e-book pricing. We do know that collusion wasn't necessary: Given the chance, any rational publisher would have ...
International Bestselling Author Cassandra Clare to Publish Third ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cassandra Clare, award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices series, has signed an agreement with Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of ...
Last Entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica Book Form
ABC News
The book-form of Encyclopaedia Britannica has been in print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768. It will stop being available when the current stock runs out, the company said. The Chicago-based company will continue to offer ...
PayPal Updates Erotica Policy: Target Is Specific Books With Obscene Images ...
TechCrunch
As we reported it would do yesterday, PayPal has today issued a significant update to its acceptable use policy regarding payments for certain erotica-themed e-books. Now the eBay-owned payments company says that it will only prohibit using its payment ...
PayPal Softens Stance on E-Book Erotica
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman In a blog post Tuesday, PayPal said that it would still enforce its acceptable use policy on e-books that contain erotica, but changed its policy to only include images of legally obscene material. PayPal had explained that allowing its ...
PayPal clarifies position on 'obscene' ebooks
TechRadar UK
By Dan Grabham PayPal has moved to clarify its position over the sale of some risquéebooks after backlash from authors and publishers. The payment house now says it will "focus this policy only on ebooks that contain potentially illegal images, ...
TechRadar UK
Cassandra Clare To Write 'The Dark Artifices,' A Fantasy Series Set In Los Angeles
Huffington Post
HILLEL ITALIE 03/13/12 08:10 PM ET AP The book cover from Cassandra Clare's "Mortal Instruments" series. "The Dark Artifices" is a spin-off from Clare's earlier books. NEW YORK — Million-selling young adult author Cassandra Clare has signed up for a ...
Author recalls trek to winning memory championship
Kansas City Star
The book is now out in paperback. Foer not only traces his trek from average sometimes-forgetful person to memory champion, but also talks with scientists, psychologists and doctors about how human memory works, or doesn't work.
Puzo family fires back at studio in "Godfather" suit
Reuters
(Reuters) - The estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo has fired back at movie studio Paramount Pictures with a $10 million counterclaim over Paramount's attempts to block a new book in the Mafia saga. Lawyers for the estate of Puzo also sought to ...
TESOL and First Book Team Up to Provide New Books to Philadelphia Kids
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- First Book, the national nonprofit that provides new books to kids in need, is joining forces with TESOL International Association to provide more than 4000 brand-new books to Philadelphia students ...
PayPal reverses course on taboo e-book sales ban
Canada.com
Nayar said PayPal would limit the sales ban to digital books that contain "potentially illegal images, not e-books that are limited to just text." "The policy will prohibit use of PayPal for the sale of e-books that contain child pornography, ...
E-Reader Shipments Are Declining…Unless They're Increasing ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Unless They're Increasing. Comments (View); Text Size: A A; Email · Share. A look at two new reports about shipments of media tablets and e-readers shows that nobody really has any idea yet whether tablets are cannibalizing e-reader sales.
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Encyclopedia Britannica to Stop Printing Books
By Miss Cellania
Encyclopedia Britannica has been printing encyclopedias in book form for 244 years, but no more. The 2010 edition will be its last. You have to wonder how many copies they sold since the last update. Britannica president Jorge Cauz is not ...
Neatorama
Writer Wednesday: 11 Writing Tips From Children's Books
By The Huffington Post News Editors
From Writer's Relief: The books we read as children were written to teach us important lessons about various topics including friendship and bodily functions.
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Bookshare celebrates 10 years of providing eBooks to those with ...
By a TeleRead Contributor
March 12, 2012 – Palo Alto, CA – Bookshare, the global leader in providing digital accessible booksto people with print disabilities, today announced. ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD ... Throughout the last ten years, Bookshare has been at the forefront of the digital book revolution, applying Silicon Valley technology to pioneer an innovative new approach to a library for individuals with print disabilities.
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Blender Conference(s) Doodles Book | BlenderNation
By Community Reporter
Blenderheads around the world have doodled in Pablo's Book. Pablo Vazquez writes: So! Were you in any of the last bcon's around? Such as Blender Conference Amsterdam, Blendiberia in Spain, or BlenderPRO in Brasil? Well, then maybe ...
BlenderNation
Susan Lucci books 'Army Wives' role alongside former 'All My ...
By Jean Bentley
Susan Lucci isn't letting the cancellation of "All My Children" keep her from working. The actress, who has already landed a prime role in Marc Cherry's soapy pilot "Devious Maids," has just booked a recurring guest-starring spot on "Army ...
From Inside the Box
Inside Google Books: Anne Rice On Man-Wolves, "White Collar ...
By Inside Google Book Search
Anne Rice laid the foundations in so many ways for authors writing paranormal fiction today, and much of her early work still stands out for me as the turn-to books when it comes to creatures of the night. The Wolf Gift is no exception, and it ...
Google Book Search Blog
Scorecasting Author Wertheim: The Myth of the Hot Hand, Clutch ...
A collaboration between L. John Wertheim, a veteran Sports Illustrated correspondent and author of several books, and Tobias Moskowitz, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Scorecasting is what would happen if Moneyball met Freakonomics and spawned a child. The authors of the book, now out in paperback, apply data and insights into behavior to a range of sports-related issues. One of their most powerful insights is the observation and description of "omission ...
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Tavis Smiley: Outlaw Platoon Author on Afghanistan Massacre
By Tavis Smiley
This week, I sat down with former Army Ranger captain Sean Parnell for a conversation about his new book, Outlaw Platoon. ... Outlaw Platoon Author on Afghanistan Massacre. Posted: 03/13/2012 4:44 pm. React. Important Fascinating ...
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Books Being Made Into Movies as of Spring 2012
By Lizzie Fuhr
With Spring just around the corner, there's much to celebrate: better weather, more holidays, and a whole new slate of books you've got to read before they're adapted to the silver screen. We've got you covered with 10 titles that are sure to fit ...
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Analytics: Three Keys to Building Your Author ... - The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Analytics: Three Keys to Building Your Author Platform by Dan Blank of WeGrowMedia.com explains how authors can use HootSuite, Tweetreach and SocialBro to measure social media activity.
The Book Designer
Hail & Farewell: The Encyclopaedia Britannica | Melville House Books
By Dennis Johnson
Reaction to Amazon retribution against IPG spreads quickly, but Big Six remain silent · Why should the price of ebooks . . . be on the floor? Return of the thug: Amazon removes buy buttons for thousands of ebooks from indie distributor that ...
Melville House Books
What's an Author-Agent Agreement? | Rachelle Gardner
By Rachelle Gardner
It can be simple and relatively brief (the one we use at Books & Such is three pages) or it can be more complicated. Here are a few things the ... This is legitimate and ethical with some reasonable limitations; for example, the first agent gets 15% if you later sell the project to a publisher to whom the agent had submitted your proposal; or if you sell it to anyone within the next two years. ... Some agents, with new unpublished authors, will not go to a formal agreement at the outset. Instead ...
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REDLANDS: Bookstore celebrates Read Across America
Press-Enterprise
Author Lois Harris speaks with a parent about her latest release "Maxfield Parrish, Painter of Magical Make-Believe" at a Read Across America event in Redlands on March 3, 2012. They came from near, they came from far, some rode in a bus, some drove in ...
Press-Enterprise
eBook Reveals How to Make Money With Free Publicity
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
The book by Pete Williams called 'Unleashing the Power of Publicity – A Guide to Making Bucket Loads of Cash With Free Publicity' will be available for purchase on various online book stores including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
Bastrop native pens horror novel
Bastrop Daily Enterprise
By Vicki Adams Former Bastrop resident Faye Frost is the author of the newly published book, “The Haunting of Lovesong House.” Frost said her book is a gothic horror novel about a couple who settle in Louisiana and purchase an old plantation house that ...
Mercersburg native publishes Civil War era romance
Chambersburg Public Opinion
"It started out as a story for my creative writing class when I was a senior at JBHS. My teacher, Jane Souders, told me, 'Hold on to this story, you may want to do something more with it someday.'" Those words of encouragement kept the author focused ...
S&M Novel Fifty Shades Of Grey Tops Best-Seller Lists
DrJays.com Live
The New York Times best-seller list is hallowed ground, reserved for spies, cookbooks, detectives, boy wizards, and even some “high literature.” So what does it say that the current occupant of the #1 spot is the explicit story of a virginal coed ...
How e-books made reading sexy again
Daily News & Analysis
After more than a decade of writing novels, it is the stuff of dreams to have one finally make it into the Top 10. But when asked about my sales, I have no idea whether I should be celebrating my good fortune, or feeling furious that I'm not several ...
Go&Do: Katherine Towler speaks about 'A God in the House' at RiverRun
Seacoastonline.com
Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America's leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, ...
In search of those extraordinary Scots-Irish
Irish Echo
Journalist and author Karen McCarthy has long been fascinated by the story of the Scots Irish in America, and though this never less than feisty branch of the greater Irish diaspora has been the subject of considerable study in the United States itself ...
Irish Echo
Scott Turow on why we should fear Amazon
Salon
But a top author suggests the e-retailer's playing monopoly By Laura Miller Late last week, the Justice Department warned Apple and five of the nation's largest publishers that it was planning to sue them for price fixing. At issue is the agency model, ...
Salon
• Raine Parsons releases romantic adventure novel online
Reporter-Times
“I thought to myself — 'I could probably write something at least as good as this and get it published,'” Raine said this week. Her new book, “Everpearl,” is a romantic adventure novel that follows a young woman, Becca Riggs, who is an average ...
Extra Ether | Jane Friedman
This entry was posted in Writing on the Ether and tagged #DBW12, #toccon, # WDC12, Amazon,author, AWP, B&N, Barnes and Noble, book, confab, conference ...
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Why You Should Consider Buying Your eBooks from Barnes and ...
There was a time when Barnes and Noble was the big bad wolf of bookselling. ... will provide the best chance for indie authors to make a living from their writing.
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Outskirts Press Announces Winner of Barnes & Noble NOOK in ...
The Barnes & Noble NOOK e-Reader is a high tech treasure for any 21st ... In fact , just recently, Patricia A. Hawkenson, author of Magnetic Repulsion: 100 ...
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The Mysterious Garden Muse: April at Barnes & Noble's Mystery ...
I moderate the Mystery Book Club at Barnes and Noble.com and I'm also part of the Romance University team. I am a garden writer/author, a member of Garden ...
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