In The E-Reader Era, A Book A Year Is Plenty

In The E-Reader Era, A Book A Year Is Plenty
Forbes
“In the e-reader era,” says the New York Times headline, “a book a year is slacking”. Julie Bosman goes on to describe how the traditional schedule of onebook per year for many genre authors is being challenged by an on-demand culture that fears ...

Forbes

New details reveal Steve Jobs involved in e-book lawsuit
CNET
Previously redacted content in lawsuit against Apple shows that Steve Jobs told a publishing exec to join Apple in creating "a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99." by Dara Kerr May 14, 2012 7:13 PM PDT Follow @darakerr New details have ...

Newly released court docs reveal Penguin CEO wanted to “make ...
By Dennis Johnson
Seventeen more states have joined the class-action lawsuit against the publishing industry overebook pricing, and the release of the amended complaint has included some fascinating evidence previously redacted, including a detailed email from ... In a report from PaidContent, which broke the story, Laura Hazard Owen says the Jobs email was written “to an executive at the parent company” of one publisher who was hesitant about signing on with Apple under the agency model.
Melville House Books

Five Books on China : The New Yorker
A surprise treasure of a book from a name that was, until now, best known as the ... This bookkicks over the classic form of the Communist-era memoir, with ...
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Book claims Zodiac Killer is 91-year-old Northern California man
Los Angeles Times
And interest has continued even as police quietly closed the books on the killings year ago. Now, there is a new scenario making the rounds. "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up" is a new bookwritten by a former California Highway Patrol officer, ...

Mike McGrady, Known for a Literary Hoax, Dies at 78
New York Times
Intended to be a work of no redeeming social value and even less literary value, “Naked Came the Stranger” by all appearances succeeded estimably on both counts. Originally issued by Lyle Stuart, an independent publisher known for subversive titles, ...

How fast can they write? E-books push writer productivity
Christian Science Monitor
“[T]he e-book age has accelerated the metabolism of book publishing,” Julie Bosman writes for the Times. “Authors are now pulling the literary equivalent of a double shift, churning out short stories, novellas or even an extra full-length bookeach ...

Christian Science Monitor

Mike McGrady, the man behind sexy, '60s literary hoax, has died
Los Angeles Times
Published as the supposedly true-life tales of a highly sexed suburban housewife, the book was attributed to Penelope Ashe, who turned out to be a wholly invented character. Like JT Leroy after her, Ashe was represented publicly by an actual human ...

book aims to show executed man was innocent
USA TODAY
James Liebman, professor at Columbia Law School and lead author of the bookLos Tocayos Carlos, translated from Spanish as "The Wrong Carlos," worked with a team of law students to uncover evidence that, he believes, shows Carlos DeLuna was innocent of ...

USA TODAY

Acclaimed Innovation Book Macrowikinomics to be Released as a Revised ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Co-authored by best-selling authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Macrowikinomics is a follow-up to Wikinomics, the best-selling management book of 2007. Macrowikinomics argues that the institutions that have served our society for centuries ...

Book Review: Sugar Street by Nagib Mahfuz
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The saga about the al-Jawad family concludes in Sugar Street, Nagib Mahfuz's third book in the Cairo Trilogy. For the curious, here are my reviews for Book One: Palace Walk, and Book Two: Palace of Desire. Sugar Street begins around the time when World ...

Steve Jobs on camera: 'The publishers are actually going to withhold their ...
Fortune
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt May 15, 2012: 7:18 AM ET FORTUNE -- Paid Content's Laura Hazard Owen, combing through documents newly unredacted in the states' (as opposed to the US Department of Justice's) antitrust complaint against Apple (AAPL) and five book ...

Fifty Shades of... Buzz!
Huffington Post
So I buckled under and bought the damn books. I finished the first one yesterday, and I have to tell you: I get it -- though I went into this with my antennae way up. My long-held passion for women's issues made me very wary about anything that puts ...

Patagonia Books Proudly Announces the Publication of The Responsible Company ...
Sacramento Bee
The book draws on the authors' cumulative years of experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of current efforts by other companies – to articulate the elements of responsible business of today. "I co-wrote this book because I wanted to provide concise ...

Watson book calls Murdoch empire a "shadow state"
Reuters
By Bernard Vaughan | NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Dial M For Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain" is among the more provocatively titled books about Rupert Murdoch, the controversial head of global news conglomerate News Corp, ...

Book buzz: Bissinger honors 'Father's Day' with memoir
USA TODAY
By Korina Lopez, USA TODAY - Buzz Bissinger, the author of the famed Fright Night Lights, digs into his own experience with his disabled son in Father's Day. Read Deirdre Donahue's interview, and watch a video of father and son enjoying a roller...

USA TODAY

What Are The Most Well-Read Cities In America?
Huffington Post
Amazon has released their second annual list of the most well-read cities in the country, based on their book, magazine and newspaper sales data in both print and digital, since June 1, 2011. The statistics are per capita, and only include towns with ...

Max Sound Corporation To Launch Online Store To Compete For Multi-Billion ...
MarketWatch (press release)
One of the MAXD Store genres of focus will be the audio book market in which MAXD plans to create the best possible scenario for Authors and Publishers. In a strategic alliance with Lissy Peace & Associates, a long time publishing and entertainment ...

Book Review: Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of: Shock Your Body Into New ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The author describes a classic trick for overcoming these problems by holding the dumbbell close to the body to place the minimum torque on the muscles. Best Exercises You've Never Heard Of by Nick Nilsson is an excellent reference for developing ...

Parkland Author's Pens "Shades Of Grey," Book Gets Confused With "Fifty Shades ...
NBC 6 Miami
More than Parkland author Susanne Jacoby-Hale bargained for when she named her self-published book "Shades of Gray." It was released around Christmas and within months, she was met with questions about her book. "I just kind of brushed it off, ...

New book claims Zodiac killer is still alive in northern California
FOX 4 News
SACRAMENTO -- A new book claims that the Zodiac killer, responsible for at least five murders in the 1960s, is still alive in northern California, the Los Angeles Times reported. "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up: The Silenced Badge," written by former ...

James Kirchick: New Book on Ron Paul by Brian Doherty Is a White Wash
Daily Beast
Brian Doherty, a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of a well-received book about the libertarian movement, is just such a follower. Unfortunately, what could have been a fascinating peek into the leader of a fringe political movement ends ...

Daily Beast

International Fund For Animal Welfare's Jeff Flocken Honored With Green Book ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- "Wildlife Heroes," a book co-authored by International Fund for Animal Welfare's (IFAW) DC Office Director, Jeff Flocken, has received top honors in the "Animal" category at the 2012 Green Book ...

Book of Jenness Cortez Paintings Awarded Outstanding Book of the Year Gold Medal
Albany Times Union
“Homage to the Creative Spirit: The Paintings of Jenness Cortez” by Baylor University art historian Karen Rechnitzer Pope (AMI Publishers) has been named recipient of the 2012 Independent Publishers “Outstanding Book of the Year” award.

New 'literary salon' faces parking hurdle
Seacoastonline.com
Deb Cram/dcram@seacoastonline.com By Elizabeth Dinan PORTSMOUTH — Three booksellers plan to open a "literary salon" in the historic Custom House, where books would be sold, beer and wine would be poured, and "creative small plates" would be served, ...

Report: Amazon planning front-lit Kindle e-reader for July, new tablet ...
By Brian Heater
Certainly it's no great shocker that Amazon's got plans for a new e-reader and tablet later this year. Nor should anyone be ... Report: Amazon planning front-lit Kindle e-reader for July, new tablet later this year. By Brian Heater posted May 14th ...
Engadget

On Books: Rebecca Forster — Legal Thrillers | TeleRead: News and ...
By Rich Adin
This book rates 5+ stars on my rating scale (see On Books: Indie eBooks Worth Reading (I) for information on how I rate ebooks). It is not that this book doesn't have some of the flights of fancy that simply do not occur in legal practice; rather, ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Flavorwire » Literary Mixtape: Lady Chatterley
By Emily Temple
If you've ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too. But wonder no ...
Flavorwire

What we're reading: book news, copyrights and ephemera - latimes ...
By Carolyn Kellogg
That's because I wish the L.A. Public Library might have a similar program, and offer writing space and stipends to gifted authors. There certainly is ... One other literary film will be screening as part of the series -- "The Wizard of Oz," based on L. Frank Baum's books, will show both as a matinee and in the evening at the recently restored art deco Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. (L.A. Conservancy's Last ... Harry Potter e-books to join Amazon's lending library · Irish national library puts ...
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3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service | American Libraries ...
By Katie Bane
The ebook solution includes a comprehensive subscription for both digital content and in-library hardware, along with apps for borrowing and reading. Patrons can browse the digital bookshelf, select, check-out, and read ebooks via the ...
American Libraries Magazine -...

The Millions : song/book
By Emily M. Keeler
Bookriot's tracklist of songs with ties or allusions to literature and literary culture, parts one and two. ... Emily M. Keeler is the books editor of The New Inquiry, and the #LitBeat editor for The Millions. She also acts as the Toronto editor for ...
The Millions

The Smashing Book #3: A Book Review
By Robert Bowen
An editorial review of the Smashing Book #3 which takes a deeper look at this new release, Redesign the Web. ... Editor's Note – Though Noupe is affiliated with Smashing Magazine, this piece is strictly the opinion of the author. When I was first contacted with a reviewer's copy of The Smashing Book #3 ... All the fears aside, with the first two books as part of our design reading library, I had no doubt that this third tome would live up to its predecessors. And I would not have to get too far ...
Noupe

Thomas Allen Turns Tired Pulp Fiction Book Covers Into Pop-Up ...
By Ana Lisa Alperovich
Michigan-based artist Thomas Allen turns classic book covers into pop-up sculptures. ...Thomas Allen takes classic books front the 40s and 50s and gives them a new life by turning their tired covers into sculptures. Haunted Lady, I Married a ...
INHABITAT

New Obama Book Shocker: Kennedys and Obamas at War ...
Publish your own activity and retain full control. ... But if you believe the explosive new book on Obama by Edward Klein, “The Amateur,” that sentiment has given ...
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A book to anticipatem—with a bit of trepidation « Why Evolution Is True
Reader Phil called my attention to a new book by primatologist Frans de Waal ... In this thoroughly engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de ...
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Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Book: Kennedys And Obamas At War
Book: Kennedys And Obamas At War. Book: Kennedys And Obamas At War. Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 11:48 am | Like Tweet. « Previous Post ...
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Hustle Hard…. The Life of an Author | Six Brown Chicks
... paparazzi stalkers and and the celebrity status all authors are accustomed to. ... I would have to dig deep and hustle hard to get the book out and about. ... My suggestion to anyone who is looking to either self-publish or go through a publisher is to do your homework! ... I chose to go with a publisher, 220 Publishing.
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Kathy Griffin Videos | Celebrities Attend Bravo's Andy Cohen's Book ...
Monday, May 14, 2012 - Celebrities arrive to Bravo's Andy Cohen's Book Release Party For 'Most Talkative: Stories From The Front Lines Of Pop Culture' held at ...
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Free & Cheap in New York: Tues., May 15
New York Daily News
... Cave Full of Ghosts,” with co-author Kinky Friedman. The actor, writer and director will discuss his colorful life from his small-town roots to his marriage to Angelina Jolie. 7 pm Free. Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St. (212) 253-0810. MEET THE METS.

New York Daily News

Sex + Flogging + Fish + Jesus = Finless [Book Review]
Austinist
Characterized as Romance with explicit sex scenes meant to titillate a mostly female audience, fiction erotica has eased its way into public places like Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart, and the park. I admit it; I had never read erotic fiction before, ...

Book fest for teen readers
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The event, in its seventh year, is from 9 am to 5 pm, with the opening author panel at 10 am The festival is trying something a bit different with the opening, having authors participate in a game show. Presentations begin at 11:15 am and continue at ...

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