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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Edinburgh International Book Festival spreads its wings ... 50 noted international authors on how writing and the imagination are an.
Edinburgh International Book Festival http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/ 11 - 27 AUGUST 2012
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Ian McEwan, Will Self & More to Launch New Novels at The ...
Broadway World
The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced its programme for 2012. ... the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, the gamut of outstanding authors from ... authors to debut novelists, as well as welcoming some extraordinary literary ... In ...
Libraries Cut E-Book Deal With Penguin
Wall Street Journal
Penguin Group and electronic-book distributor 3M have made a deal with two ... The pilot, crafted to protect e-book sales, will delay the release of e-books to ... Exposure of first-time authors in libraries, for example, could boost sales, he said.
From Penguin, a Plan to Make Its E-Books Available in New York ...
New York Times (blog)
The publisher, in conjunction with city libraries and 3M, will make its books ... year, Penguin Group USA has slowly pulled away from the library e-book market.
Book Talk: Antigone in a remote Afghan military post
Reuters
A: "What got it going was my own frustration with the fact that literary fiction ... an author and give agency to each one of the characters in the book and have them ...
Penguin returns its e-books to New York libraries
Christian Science Monitor
After yanking their e-book titles from libraries last year, Penguin is launching an e-book pilot ... After yanking their e-books off library shelves last fall, Penguin Books will be bringing their ... Author band the Rock Bottom Remainders calls it ...
Christian Science Monitor
LeBron James, open book
ESPN
Surely, you've noticed the videotape of LeBron reading books before every game the last two months.... Maybe a publisher or an author was paying him.
New books offer to bring the food science lab home
The Associated Press
The book offers practical takeaways, like sidebars with small tips (a skillet works better ..."Modernist Cuisine at Home" author Nathan Myhrvold wants to titillate.
Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books?
NPR
In 1898, a man bought a book for his 16-year-old nephew. ... term for books signed by the author to a significant person, or books owned and perhaps ... In the age of the e-book, the paper book faces two possible and antithetical fates. ... NPR ...
Rubio's book media blitz continues
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
Marco Rubio, R-Fla., met with reporters Thursday to tout his new book -- and of course got asked about everything from immigration to the pending contempt ...
5 Tips for Turning Your Blog Into a Book
MarketWatch (press release)
Options include both print and e-book formats. ... Readers may prefer to have the print book oreBook, which provides them with a more focused and ... Authors have the ability to publish theirbooks, of any genre, using their simple online tools.
Book festival programme is unveiled
The Press Association
The programme for this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival has been announced. ... More than 800 authors from around the world appear at 750 events ... Gavin Esler and Louise Welsh are to launch their new books at the festival, while ...
The Press Association
The programme for this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival has been announced. ... More than 800 authors from around the world appear at 750 events ... Gavin Esler and Louise Welsh are to launch their new books at the festival, while ...
Ian McEwan, Will Self & More to Launch New Novels at The ...
Broadway World
The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced its programme for 2012. ... the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, the gamut of outstanding authors from ... authors to debut novelists, as well as welcoming some extraordinary literary ... In ...
Libraries Cut E-Book Deal With Penguin
Wall Street Journal
Penguin Group and electronic-book distributor 3M have made a deal with two ... The pilot, crafted to protect e-book sales, will delay the release of e-books to ... Exposure of first-time authors in libraries, for example, could boost sales, he said.
From Penguin, a Plan to Make Its E-Books Available in New York ...
New York Times (blog)
The publisher, in conjunction with city libraries and 3M, will make its books ... year, Penguin Group USA has slowly pulled away from the library e-book market.
Book Talk: Antigone in a remote Afghan military post
Reuters
A: "What got it going was my own frustration with the fact that literary fiction ... an author and give agency to each one of the characters in the book and have them ...
Penguin returns its e-books to New York libraries
Christian Science Monitor
After yanking their e-book titles from libraries last year, Penguin is launching an e-book pilot ... After yanking their e-books off library shelves last fall, Penguin Books will be bringing their ... Author band the Rock Bottom Remainders calls it ...
Christian Science Monitor
LeBron James, open book
ESPN
Surely, you've noticed the videotape of LeBron reading books before every game the last two months.... Maybe a publisher or an author was paying him.
New books offer to bring the food science lab home
The Associated Press
The book offers practical takeaways, like sidebars with small tips (a skillet works better ..."Modernist Cuisine at Home" author Nathan Myhrvold wants to titillate.
Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books?
NPR
In 1898, a man bought a book for his 16-year-old nephew. ... term for books signed by the author to a significant person, or books owned and perhaps ... In the age of the e-book, the paper book faces two possible and antithetical fates. ... NPR ...
Rubio's book media blitz continues
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
Marco Rubio, R-Fla., met with reporters Thursday to tout his new book -- and of course got asked about everything from immigration to the pending contempt ...
5 Tips for Turning Your Blog Into a Book
MarketWatch (press release)
Options include both print and e-book formats. ... Readers may prefer to have the print book oreBook, which provides them with a more focused and ... Authors have the ability to publish theirbooks, of any genre, using their simple online tools.
Don't Take My Word For It - Check Out the Reading Rainbow App
Chip Chicklets
Reading Rainbow, the classic children's television show that encouraged kids to read and offered up recommendations, is making a welcome comeback in the form of an iPad app. From the looks of it, it's going to be the last word on storybooks apps.
NY public libraries to get Penguin e-books
Wall Street Journal
Penguin Group says if the program is successful, it could offer e-books to libraries nationwide. Until now, Penguin ... Libraries Cut E-Book Deal With Penguin ...
E-book sales revenue officially tops revenue from hardcover
USA TODAY
For the first time, revenue from the sale of e-books has outstripped revenue from hardcover sales. ... E-book sales revenue officially tops revenue from hardcover ...
USA TODAY
2 major NY library systems to get Penguin e-books; pilot program ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Two New York City public library systems are set to get Penguin e-books as part of a one-year pilot program.
Richard Ford: By the Book
New York Times
The author of “Independence Day” and “The Sportswriter” says he's not a tough cry under any circumstances. “My own book 'Canada' made me cry the last time I read it.” ... What's your favoriteliterary genre? Any guilty ... Though I'm not opposed to e ...
Penguin brings e-books back to NYC libraries in 1-year pilot ...
paidContent.org
Penguin, which removed ebooks from libraries and ended its relationship with ... 3M doesn't currently support Amazon's Kindle, the most popular e-reader in the country.... in an effort to protect paid e-book sales, “will delay the release of e-books ...
paidContent.org
Alice Walker rejects Israeli translation of book
Businessweek
Walker, an ardent pro-Palestinian activist, said in a letter to Yediot Books that ... Gurevich said Walker is not the first author to refuse to have works published in ...
Winners For The 25th Trillium Book Award Announced
Sacramento Bee
"The Trillium Book Award is an opportunity to celebrate and honour Ontario's literary talent. The McGuinty government is proud of our fine authors and publishers ...
Four Ontario authors win Trillium Book Awards
Canada.com
TORONTO - Four Ontario authours were named winners of the province's top literary awards during a Trillium Book Award dinner Wednesday night in Toronto.
Saskatchewan woman may burn thousands of rescued books
CBC.ca
Shaunna Raycraft saved about 350000 books from being burned seven years ... But Raycraft and her husband are now separating and the book house needs to ...
CBC.ca
Who needs a lab when you have a kitchen? New books aim to suss ...
Washington Post
New books aim to suss out the science of home cooking ... In this March 23, 2011 file photo, Nathan Myhrvold, author of “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and ... The book offers practical takeaways, like sidebars with small tips (a skillet works better ...
Q&A: Happiest Baby Author, Dr. Harvey Karp, on Getting Your Baby ...
TIME
The author of the Happiest Baby on the Block series is hitting the big screen on ...Since his first book came out a decade ago, he's cobbled together an empire of products. In addition to books, there are DVDs and 2600 certified Happiest Baby ...
TIME
The E-Reader Story
Forbes
Importantly, results for their closely watched Nook e-reader division were mixed. ... And while Barnes & Noble currently has more than 25 percent of the e-book ...
Review: Books from Paul Krugman and Timothy Noah suggest ...
San Jose Mercury News
As a result, the very title of Krugman's new book -- "End This Depression Now! ... Both authors try to inject urgency into the national debate, but their arguments seem likely to fall on ... Sadly, neither author is at his best working at book length.
Erica Kennedy | Author of 'Bling,' 42
Philadelphia Inquirer
"My hope is that the next black author gets six figures for this kind of book," she told The Inquirer in 2004. "I just want to be home in sweats and glasses, writing." ...
Literary Journeys On The BART
By Zeon Santos
The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transport) is the most popular form of public transportation in San Francisco and surrounding cities, and many commuters enjoy reading a book to pass the time on the ride home. This new series of art posters by Owen Smith illustrate the commuter's imagination running wild, as they read books by authors linked to the Bay Area such as the author of The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett. Owen's posters are currently posted in BART stations all over the Bay ...
Neatorama
Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows
By Charlie Jane Anders
We'll never get our favorite cancelled TV shows back again — but the good news is, for every TV show you miss, there are books (or book series) that can help fill the void. Here are 12 cancelled TV shows, and the books that could help ...
io9: Television
Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover Sales For The First Time Ever ...
By Perez Hilton
... even include children's books! Adult ebooks brought in $282.3 million, with a 28.4% increase from the same period a year ago, while young adult ebooks performed even better, catapulting 233% to $64.3 million. ... Well, everything in life changes, I don't doubt this at all, as my daughter who is 7 and most of her friends are asking about E-book readers, I think that this will continue until the percentage of E-books to normal books will be 65-35%. Tara Hamdi. isolde says – reply to this ...
Celebrity Gossip Follow @Celeblatest
Making ebooks is harder than it looks | TeleRead: News and views ...
By Paul Biba
From an article by Andrew Zack in Huff Post: As a literary agent, I fell victim to the same false conclusions I think most readers do, that e-books are easily. ... 2012 | 9:06 am. Posted in: Paul Biba, publishing. Tags: E-book, ebook, publishing ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Fullerton library installs $35000 book vending machine | machine ...
By By KEVIN REYNOLDS
FULLERTON – Commuters looking for a mental escape on their train rides will be able to choose from hundreds of best-selling books at a new vending machine stocked by the Fullerton Public Library. The vending machine, dubbed the FPL ...
The Orange County Register -...
A Daily Dose of Architecture: Books with Holes
By John Hill
But I couldn't help trying to recall other books with holes after seeing Columbia GSAPP's Abstract 2010-11. While I'm boggled by the potato gracing the cover, it's clear that three differently sized circles are cut through the entire book, cover to ...
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Melville House Books » Amazon launches her books, and Nancy ...
By Dennis Johnson
Her series of books with Amazon has begun publication, but many booksellers are refusing to sell them, and to make matters worse things have remained so hostile that Nancy Pearl says she has to wear a disguise when she goes into bookstores, according to a Washington Post report. The report by ... And indeed, Pearl's decision to go with Amazon seems to have made for a situation whereby it will be difficult for booksellers to stock the book whatever they think of Pearl or Amazon.
Melville House Books
Sheila Heti's Book Launch Last Night: A Serious Meditation on ...
By Erica Schwiegershausen
Sheila Heti's new novel, How Should a Person Be?, is dedicated to Margaux Williamson, a main character who is the best friend of the book's protagonist—Sheila—and, not exactly by coincidence, is Ms. Heti's best friend in real life as well. Last night, at a launch party ... A Q&A followed, and audience members seemed determined to flaunt that they'd already read the book; the novel was published in Canada in 2010, but struggled to find an American publisher. One man prefaced his ...
Velvet Roper - New York Observer
Book Bits: Richelle Mead, Jeaniene Frost, Julie Kagawa, Kelly Gay ...
By VampireBookClub
Before we get into the book news, a giant thank you to all who have already bid in the Books Fighting Cancer charity auctions. I've added several new auction lots (and maybe added some extra doses of awesome to the Romance and PNR ...
Vampire Book Club
Susan Spencer-Wendel Inks a $2.3 Million Book Deal - GalleyCat
By Maryann Yin
Andrews McMeel Publishing is looking for a Publishing Operations Coordinator. next job Quirk Booksis looking for a Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager. next job Smithsonian Books is looking for a Editorial Internship. next job Mahalo ...
GalleyCat
Making E-books Is Harder Than It Looks
Huffington Post (blog)
Someone has to remind the author that he's writing for an audience and not just him or herself. ...Now this does not include Amazon or Barnes & Noble or other sellers. This is ..... some of it on carefully chosen new authors (hoping for a new best ...
Chip Chicklets
Reading Rainbow, the classic children's television show that encouraged kids to read and offered up recommendations, is making a welcome comeback in the form of an iPad app. From the looks of it, it's going to be the last word on storybooks apps.
NY public libraries to get Penguin e-books
Wall Street Journal
Penguin Group says if the program is successful, it could offer e-books to libraries nationwide. Until now, Penguin ... Libraries Cut E-Book Deal With Penguin ...
E-book sales revenue officially tops revenue from hardcover
USA TODAY
For the first time, revenue from the sale of e-books has outstripped revenue from hardcover sales. ... E-book sales revenue officially tops revenue from hardcover ...
USA TODAY
2 major NY library systems to get Penguin e-books; pilot program ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Two New York City public library systems are set to get Penguin e-books as part of a one-year pilot program.
Richard Ford: By the Book
New York Times
The author of “Independence Day” and “The Sportswriter” says he's not a tough cry under any circumstances. “My own book 'Canada' made me cry the last time I read it.” ... What's your favoriteliterary genre? Any guilty ... Though I'm not opposed to e ...
Penguin brings e-books back to NYC libraries in 1-year pilot ...
paidContent.org
Penguin, which removed ebooks from libraries and ended its relationship with ... 3M doesn't currently support Amazon's Kindle, the most popular e-reader in the country.... in an effort to protect paid e-book sales, “will delay the release of e-books ...
paidContent.org
Alice Walker rejects Israeli translation of book
Businessweek
Walker, an ardent pro-Palestinian activist, said in a letter to Yediot Books that ... Gurevich said Walker is not the first author to refuse to have works published in ...
Winners For The 25th Trillium Book Award Announced
Sacramento Bee
"The Trillium Book Award is an opportunity to celebrate and honour Ontario's literary talent. The McGuinty government is proud of our fine authors and publishers ...
Four Ontario authors win Trillium Book Awards
Canada.com
TORONTO - Four Ontario authours were named winners of the province's top literary awards during a Trillium Book Award dinner Wednesday night in Toronto.
Saskatchewan woman may burn thousands of rescued books
CBC.ca
Shaunna Raycraft saved about 350000 books from being burned seven years ... But Raycraft and her husband are now separating and the book house needs to ...
CBC.ca
Who needs a lab when you have a kitchen? New books aim to suss ...
Washington Post
New books aim to suss out the science of home cooking ... In this March 23, 2011 file photo, Nathan Myhrvold, author of “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and ... The book offers practical takeaways, like sidebars with small tips (a skillet works better ...
Q&A: Happiest Baby Author, Dr. Harvey Karp, on Getting Your Baby ...
TIME
The author of the Happiest Baby on the Block series is hitting the big screen on ...Since his first book came out a decade ago, he's cobbled together an empire of products. In addition to books, there are DVDs and 2600 certified Happiest Baby ...
TIME
The E-Reader Story
Forbes
Importantly, results for their closely watched Nook e-reader division were mixed. ... And while Barnes & Noble currently has more than 25 percent of the e-book ...
Review: Books from Paul Krugman and Timothy Noah suggest ...
San Jose Mercury News
As a result, the very title of Krugman's new book -- "End This Depression Now! ... Both authors try to inject urgency into the national debate, but their arguments seem likely to fall on ... Sadly, neither author is at his best working at book length.
Erica Kennedy | Author of 'Bling,' 42
Philadelphia Inquirer
"My hope is that the next black author gets six figures for this kind of book," she told The Inquirer in 2004. "I just want to be home in sweats and glasses, writing." ...
Literary Journeys On The BART
By Zeon Santos
The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transport) is the most popular form of public transportation in San Francisco and surrounding cities, and many commuters enjoy reading a book to pass the time on the ride home. This new series of art posters by Owen Smith illustrate the commuter's imagination running wild, as they read books by authors linked to the Bay Area such as the author of The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett. Owen's posters are currently posted in BART stations all over the Bay ...
Neatorama
Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows
By Charlie Jane Anders
We'll never get our favorite cancelled TV shows back again — but the good news is, for every TV show you miss, there are books (or book series) that can help fill the void. Here are 12 cancelled TV shows, and the books that could help ...
io9: Television
Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover Sales For The First Time Ever ...
By Perez Hilton
... even include children's books! Adult ebooks brought in $282.3 million, with a 28.4% increase from the same period a year ago, while young adult ebooks performed even better, catapulting 233% to $64.3 million. ... Well, everything in life changes, I don't doubt this at all, as my daughter who is 7 and most of her friends are asking about E-book readers, I think that this will continue until the percentage of E-books to normal books will be 65-35%. Tara Hamdi. isolde says – reply to this ...
Celebrity Gossip Follow @Celeblatest
Making ebooks is harder than it looks | TeleRead: News and views ...
By Paul Biba
From an article by Andrew Zack in Huff Post: As a literary agent, I fell victim to the same false conclusions I think most readers do, that e-books are easily. ... 2012 | 9:06 am. Posted in: Paul Biba, publishing. Tags: E-book, ebook, publishing ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Fullerton library installs $35000 book vending machine | machine ...
By By KEVIN REYNOLDS
FULLERTON – Commuters looking for a mental escape on their train rides will be able to choose from hundreds of best-selling books at a new vending machine stocked by the Fullerton Public Library. The vending machine, dubbed the FPL ...
The Orange County Register -...
A Daily Dose of Architecture: Books with Holes
By John Hill
But I couldn't help trying to recall other books with holes after seeing Columbia GSAPP's Abstract 2010-11. While I'm boggled by the potato gracing the cover, it's clear that three differently sized circles are cut through the entire book, cover to ...
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Melville House Books » Amazon launches her books, and Nancy ...
By Dennis Johnson
Her series of books with Amazon has begun publication, but many booksellers are refusing to sell them, and to make matters worse things have remained so hostile that Nancy Pearl says she has to wear a disguise when she goes into bookstores, according to a Washington Post report. The report by ... And indeed, Pearl's decision to go with Amazon seems to have made for a situation whereby it will be difficult for booksellers to stock the book whatever they think of Pearl or Amazon.
Melville House Books
'Game of Thrones' author coming to Seattle | Seattle's Big Blog ...
By Amy Rolph
George R.R. Martin, author of the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” is coming to Seattle in July to read from his most recent work. (For all the casual fans out there, that's the series that gave you the HBO show “Game of Thrones.”) ...
Seattle's Big Blog
By Amy Rolph
George R.R. Martin, author of the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” is coming to Seattle in July to read from his most recent work. (For all the casual fans out there, that's the series that gave you the HBO show “Game of Thrones.”) ...
Seattle's Big Blog
Sheila Heti's Book Launch Last Night: A Serious Meditation on ...
By Erica Schwiegershausen
Sheila Heti's new novel, How Should a Person Be?, is dedicated to Margaux Williamson, a main character who is the best friend of the book's protagonist—Sheila—and, not exactly by coincidence, is Ms. Heti's best friend in real life as well. Last night, at a launch party ... A Q&A followed, and audience members seemed determined to flaunt that they'd already read the book; the novel was published in Canada in 2010, but struggled to find an American publisher. One man prefaced his ...
Velvet Roper - New York Observer
Top 100 Picture Books #5: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats « A ...
By Elizabeth Bird
Consulting my Dear Genius I see that Harper editor Ursula Nordstrom did in fact publish Ezra Jack Keats, but only after the publication of Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie with Viking. Her May 2, 1966 letter to him ... Author of many classic books for children, including the Caldecott-winning bookThe Snowy Day, Keats determined that his foundation would be dedicated to fostering the talent of the generations of children, artists, and authors who would follow him. When he died in 1983, ...
A Fuse #8 Production
By Elizabeth Bird
Consulting my Dear Genius I see that Harper editor Ursula Nordstrom did in fact publish Ezra Jack Keats, but only after the publication of Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie with Viking. Her May 2, 1966 letter to him ... Author of many classic books for children, including the Caldecott-winning bookThe Snowy Day, Keats determined that his foundation would be dedicated to fostering the talent of the generations of children, artists, and authors who would follow him. When he died in 1983, ...
A Fuse #8 Production
Book Bits: Richelle Mead, Jeaniene Frost, Julie Kagawa, Kelly Gay ...
By VampireBookClub
Before we get into the book news, a giant thank you to all who have already bid in the Books Fighting Cancer charity auctions. I've added several new auction lots (and maybe added some extra doses of awesome to the Romance and PNR ...
Vampire Book Club
Susan Spencer-Wendel Inks a $2.3 Million Book Deal - GalleyCat
By Maryann Yin
Andrews McMeel Publishing is looking for a Publishing Operations Coordinator. next job Quirk Booksis looking for a Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager. next job Smithsonian Books is looking for a Editorial Internship. next job Mahalo ...
GalleyCat
Huffington Post (blog)
Someone has to remind the author that he's writing for an audience and not just him or herself. ...Now this does not include Amazon or Barnes & Noble or other sellers. This is ..... some of it on carefully chosen new authors (hoping for a new best ...
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