Salon
Indeed, Salon's repeated requests to discuss the grant program with Amazon — or to interview Jon Fine, Amazon's director of author and publisher relations and the man who distributes the money — were all declined. That silence cuts both ways.
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Charleston Post Courier
Word of mouth has made EL James' sexually explicit romance “Fifty Shades of Grey,” an e-book and paperback best-seller, a phenomenon among female readers. So why won't the majority of its fans, 30-something moms, according to the publisher, ...
Author: Book looks at how music is used in shaping political messages
Journal Times
Why did you write the book? Co-author Dr. (Eric T.) Kasper and I have been team teaching an interdisciplinary studies course entitles “Introduction to American Politics and Music.” As part of the course, I discuss how music has been used to affect the ...
A tide of 'Titanic' books
Philadelphia Inquirer
Now, the approach of the 100th anniversary has launched a small flotilla of books looking for new ways to tell the old story. Here are a few of the more notable: Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World, ...
Beware Literary Snobbery: Why We Should Read Bestsellers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By James W. Hall AP A student follows along during an in-class reading of “Catching Fire,” the second book in “The Hunger Games” series by Suzanne Collins, at a charter school in California. As a professor of American literature who teaches a course on ...
Americans adapt to e-reading, Pew study finds
San Francisco Chronicle
Here's what's happening on the plugged-in side of the digital divide: an extraordinarily swift change in how people are reading books and other media, driven by the rapid acceptance of tablets and e-readers. More than 1 in 5 Americans say they have ...
Book Reviews: 'The Red Book,' 'The Last Werewolf' and 'Hit List'
New York Daily News
The Red Book refers to the volume of personal essays that arrives every five years, providing Harvard graduates with updates on their classmates. In the novel, Clover, Addison, Mia and Jane are returning for their 20th reunion.
New York Daily News
"The Phantom Toolbooth": Crafting a literary classic
CBS News
Can a combination of illustrations and word play assure a long life to a children'sbook? Well, that depends on who's drawing the pictures, and who's writing the words. With Rita Braver now we'll examine the Fine Print: Literary history was made 50 ...
CBS News
Israel bars German author Günter Grass over poem
Telegraph.co.uk
Israel on Sunday barred German author Günter Grass from entering the Jewish state, citing a poem in which he accuses Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. "Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared Günter Grass persona non ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Steelhammer: The Beatles didn't aspire to be 'digital book writers'
Charleston Gazette
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, more than one in five Americans have read an e-book in the past year, and ownership of e-readers has more than tripled during the same period. In fact, those who use Kindle, Nook and other e-readers, ...
Titanic books to check out
Omaha World-Herald
In addition to facts, author Stephen J. Spignesi debunks a lot of myths. At least 98 books, either in print or e-book format, have been published just this year, according to Bowker's Books in Print. That's far too many to list, but here are a few to ...
Book events for April 8, 2012
The Advocate
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the State Library of Louisiana's Center for the Book will hold its second Just Listen to Yourself event. The program will be held noon to 1:30 pm Wednesday, April 11, at the State Library and will be hosted by ...
Author Empowers Readers Through Personal Journey
Houston Chronicle
Wilson's ultimate goal with her book is for readers to see in action the true power of love and how it can help to overcome and heal many challenges in one's life along their own journey. Anna Jane Wilson, born in Surrey, England, ...
Books, films chronicle Marcellus Shale gas rush
Newsday
Click here Print Aa Books, films chronicle Marcellus Shale gas rush Originally published: April 8, 2012 12:22 PM Updated: April 8, 2012 12:23 PM By The Associated Press MARY ESCH (Associated Press) (AP) -- Dairy farmers-turned-shale millionaires.
Book Review: 'Perla' by Carolina De Robertis
New York Daily News
By Sherryl Connelly / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Carolina De Robertis' new novel “Perla” is based on a horrifically enthralling true story of a young woman raised as the daughter of an important naval officer who discovered as an adult that she was stolen at ...
New York Daily News
Books by the Bay: From Ann Lamott, David Vann. Carolina De Robertis and others
San Jose Mercury News
By Georgia Rowe Anne Lamott, right, with her son, Sam Lamott, co-authors of "Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son. Photo by Sam Lamott/Courtesy Riverhead Books. A new work on family ties by Bay Area favorite Anne Lamott; ...
Book review | 'Thomas Hart Benton: A Life' puts artist's often contradictory ...
Kansas City Star
By DONNA SEAMAN Dark-haired, mustachioed and muscled, Thomas Hart Benton painted assertive self-portraits, including an image of himself scowling before an easel, brushes clutched upright in his fist like a torch. In December 1934, Benton became the ...
Kansas City Star
Greater Boston author readings April 8-14
Boston.com (blog)
Rick Moody (“On Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening”) reads at 7 pm at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Road, Newton Centre … Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (“The Future of Power”) reads at 7 pm at the First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge …
Literary prizes are a write-off
Herald Sun
QUEENSLAND last week scrapped the Premier's Literary Awards to save the cash, and Australia's writers are furious. What if other premiers are inspired to do the same? What if Victoria's Ted Baillieu decided to save $225000 by killing his own Premier's ...
Following poem, Israel bans German author Guenter Grass from visiting
Washington Post
JERUSALEM — Israel has banned German intellectual Guenter Grass from visiting the country because of a critical poem published by the Nobel laureate last week. In his order, Interior Minister Eli Yishai used an Israeli law that allows him to bar entry ...
Titanic sinking 100 years later: A night that lives on in film, books ...
New York Daily News
Hundreds upon hundreds of books. Two dozen movies. Plays, radio serials, poems, paintings, two Broadway musicals, comics, video games and a symphony. Sometimes it seems cave painting is the only art form that has not taken on the never-gets-old drama ...
New York Daily News
Book Notes: For 99 cents, read Walter's 'Don't Eat Cat'
The Spokesman Review
If you really can't wait that long, the National Book Award finalist has a new tidbit available to whet your appetite. “Don't Eat Cat” is a work of short fiction. Best part? It'll set ya back a whopping 99 cents and is formatted for your e-reader of ...
New Book Sheds Light on Intercollegiate Athletics
Albany Times Union
B. David Ridpath releases new book, “Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice” In B. David Ridpath's “Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice” (published by iUniverse), ...
Audiobooks: Are they really the same as reading?
Chicago Tribune
It was 2006; I had been a regular recorded books listener for three years. But until I heard the late Ron Silver's incarnation as the Nathan Zuckerman of my imagination, I failed to realize that recorded books were more than some guy reading.
Chicago Tribune
Book talk: More than 80 authors to descend on Fox Cities for annual book festival
Appleton Post Crescent
Cafe Conversations is a pre-Fox Cities Book Festival event that allows discussion of the Fox Cities Book Festival writers' work. / Post-Crescent photo by Wm. Glasheen Tickets: $25. They're available online at www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org or by phone ...
'Interlok' stirs ethnic, political waters in Malaysia
Los Angeles Times
Few at the time read the Malay-language book, which portrays the interlocking lives of ethnic Malay, Chinese and Indian families in pre-independence British Malaya. But four decades later, the book became a sensation. It has galvanized the country's ...
Los Angeles Times
Book review: Author Annie Lamott creates operating instructions for son's son ...
Denver Post
Like Lamott's other nonfiction books, it is filled with humor and the author's quirky faith. And is bound to do for grandmothers what the earlier book did for mothers — bring them insight and sanity in the midst of chaos. "He's grown me," Lamott ...
'Urban Sketching' book takes armchair travelers around the world
The Seattle Times
"The Art of Urban Sketching" — a new book by Seattle Times staff artist Gabriel Campanario — takes readers around the world through sketches by travelers. by Barbara Lloyd McMichael New York's Flatiron building was sketched by Dutch visitor René ...
Publisher insistence on DRM harms smaller e-book stores ...
By Chris Meadows
But one thing you hear about less often is how DRM can be harmful to e-book stores as well. Ruth Curry, chief operating officer of independent e-bookseller Emily Books, has written a piece on PaidContent discussing the effect that DRM has ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Albany Times Union
B. David Ridpath releases new book, “Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice” In B. David Ridpath's “Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice” (published by iUniverse), ...
Audiobooks: Are they really the same as reading?
Chicago Tribune
It was 2006; I had been a regular recorded books listener for three years. But until I heard the late Ron Silver's incarnation as the Nathan Zuckerman of my imagination, I failed to realize that recorded books were more than some guy reading.
Chicago Tribune
Book talk: More than 80 authors to descend on Fox Cities for annual book festival
Appleton Post Crescent
Cafe Conversations is a pre-Fox Cities Book Festival event that allows discussion of the Fox Cities Book Festival writers' work. / Post-Crescent photo by Wm. Glasheen Tickets: $25. They're available online at www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org or by phone ...
'Interlok' stirs ethnic, political waters in Malaysia
Los Angeles Times
Few at the time read the Malay-language book, which portrays the interlocking lives of ethnic Malay, Chinese and Indian families in pre-independence British Malaya. But four decades later, the book became a sensation. It has galvanized the country's ...
Los Angeles Times
Book review: Author Annie Lamott creates operating instructions for son's son ...
Denver Post
Like Lamott's other nonfiction books, it is filled with humor and the author's quirky faith. And is bound to do for grandmothers what the earlier book did for mothers — bring them insight and sanity in the midst of chaos. "He's grown me," Lamott ...
'Urban Sketching' book takes armchair travelers around the world
The Seattle Times
"The Art of Urban Sketching" — a new book by Seattle Times staff artist Gabriel Campanario — takes readers around the world through sketches by travelers. by Barbara Lloyd McMichael New York's Flatiron building was sketched by Dutch visitor René ...
Publisher insistence on DRM harms smaller e-book stores ...
By Chris Meadows
But one thing you hear about less often is how DRM can be harmful to e-book stores as well. Ruth Curry, chief operating officer of independent e-bookseller Emily Books, has written a piece on PaidContent discussing the effect that DRM has ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Good History Books For 10-Year Old Girls? — Crooked Timber
By John Holbo
Now I'm looking for good history books, or history-themed (possibly fictional) books for 10-year old girls, because Zoe has gotten more curious about that and she doesn't get much history in school, somehow. US history. World history. Ancient ...
Crooked Timber
Book Shelves #15, 4.08.2012 | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
To class your unread authors. —George Eliot, Middlemarch, epigraph to Chapter 13. Bookshelves series #15, fifteenth Sunday of 2012. A new book-case this week; the shorter triplet of the twin ladders seen here. What do the volumes on this ...
biblioklept
Caring for Your Books Part One - Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the ...
By Marilyn Thiele
As there is quite a lot to be said on these topics, I am going to cover retrieving, opening, and turning pages in books today. Next week, I will have more to say on storage and moving (and even bookworms). RETRIEVING A BOOK FROM THE ...
Hey, There's A Dead Guy in the...
3quarksdaily: What Books Make You Cringe To Remember?
By Robin Varghese
Atlas-shrugged-e1333630955708 Nadia Chaudhury "asked an assortment of literary-inclined people to revisit the books they loved back in the day, the ones that make them absolutely cringe today" in The Awl: Sam Anderson, New York Times ...
3quarksdaily
Free eBook App: PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit - eBookNewser
By Nate Hoffelder
Free eBook App: PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit. ... Amazon gives away a free Android app everyday, and today is your chance to get an eBook app based on one of Beatrix Potter's classic children's tales. PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit ...
eBookNewser
Shapiro's anti-Darwinian book gets panned « Why Evolution Is True
By whyevolutionistrue
Shapiro's anti-Darwinian book gets panned. By way of introducing today's post, I'll put above the fold a comment I got last night from a reader: themayan commented on Jim Shapiro continues his misguided attack on neo-Darwinism. Lets stop ...
Why Evolution Is True
Archizines + Arch-Art! Books - manystuff.org
By manystuff
Archizines + Arch-Art! Books is a double exhibition consisting of Archizines curated by Elias Redstone and Arch-Art! Books, curated by Adam O'Reilly for Printed Matter, Inc. that brings to the table a hypothesis: printed matter matters .
manystuff.org — Graphic Design...
By manystuff
Archizines + Arch-Art! Books is a double exhibition consisting of Archizines curated by Elias Redstone and Arch-Art! Books, curated by Adam O'Reilly for Printed Matter, Inc. that brings to the table a hypothesis: printed matter matters .
manystuff.org — Graphic Design...
Another Pakistani author, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, strikes the 'write ...
While the world continues to raise a toast to contemporary Pakistani authors, the latest author to enter the literary marathon is a genius of sorts who translates Urdu tomes and works on his own tales of fiction with equal ease.
IBN Top Headlines
While the world continues to raise a toast to contemporary Pakistani authors, the latest author to enter the literary marathon is a genius of sorts who translates Urdu tomes and works on his own tales of fiction with equal ease.
IBN Top Headlines
S. Krishna's Books: Book Review: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food ...
By Swapna
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks Genre: Cookbook Source: Gift from Author - Personal Copy Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Review: ... The book contains over 100 recipes in all sorts of genres, so you're sure to find something you love here. While the main theme isn't ... Other books by Ree Drummond: The Pioneer Woman: Black ... I also host the South Asian Review Database and run the South Asian Challenge, which promote the authors and literature of the region. I do acceptbooks for ...
S. Krishna's Books
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ANOTHER 99-CENT KINDLE BOOK BY ...
By Glenn Reynolds
April 7, 2012. ANOTHER 99-CENT KINDLE BOOK BY AN INSTAPUNDIT READER: The Last Eagle, by Michael Wenberg. Polish submariners in World War II — sounds very interesting. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:49 pm. Tweet ...
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Sunday Salon: Book Blogger Unconference (with a bonus trip to ...
By Teresa
However, the Expo itself was of limited value to a blogger like me, who isn't especially interested in focusing on new books or making connections with the book publishing industry. The BookBlogger Conference itself was more helpful and ...
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