Washington Post (blog)
(Click on the author's name to be linked to Book World's review.) NONFICTION HARDCOVER. 1. THE MOBILE WAVE: ... The first of a British e-book erotic trilogy that has become a publishing phenomenon. [17]. 2. FIFTY SHADES DARKER. (Vintage, $15.95).
Book Notes: A delightful mystery set in South India
Norwich Bulletin
'The Wrath of Shiva' is the latest mystery by Beverly-based author Susan Oleksiw. ... Her love interest Anand has a large role in this book, but Anita, for whom curiosity overpowers fear, attempts to keep the most dangerous of her escapades from him.
Scanning project never hurt book sales, says Google - 30 Jul 2012
Knowledgespeak
It claims that its creation of full-text book searching is "the most significant advance in library search technology in the last five decades" and that the Authors Guild has shown "no evidence that Google Books has displaced the sale of even a single book." The new filing ... The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has reported a substantial increase in the number of multi-author papers in recent years, with many surpassing 50authors and some reporting upwards of 3000 authors. The trend ...
The Beer Nut publishes his first book
MetroWest Daily News
Now Miller has recently published his first book, "Beer Lover's New England." What this bookoffers in detail is every brewery, brew, brewpub and beer bar in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. Each brewery is ...
ebrary Strengthens Strategic E-book Acquisition Program for Community and ...
Sacramento Bee
PALO ALTO, Cailf., July 30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- To help community and career colleges acquire e-books more strategically, ebrary®, a ProQuest business, has added thousands of relevant e-books across acquisition models, which provide libraries with ...
CrowdCompass Releases eBook to help Conference Organizers Accelerate the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MCLEAN, Va., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CrowdCompass, the leading mobile app developer for events, conferences and tradeshows, today announced the release of a neweBook, "Mobile App Marketing Playbook: A Guide to Increasing ...
iPad Book Review: 50 Years: The Rolling Stones Part 1 Review
MobileTechReview.com
... would become "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band". To celebrate this incredible milestone,publisher The eBook People has just released "The Rolling Stones - 50 years Part One", one of many books out this year commemorating this uncommon achievement. ... Rather than relying on a single author's point of view, each section of this book covers a particular year through a selection of newspaper and magazine articles that came out in that particular year. This allows for a much wider variety in writing styles and ...
Irvin Faust, Author and Guidance Counselor, Dies at 88
New York Times
Mr. Faust burst onto the literary scene in 1965 with a collection of short stories, “Roar Lion Roar and Other Stories.” Stanley Kauffmann said in The New Republic that opening the book was “like clicking on a switch: at once we hear the electric hum of talent.” ...
New York Times
Books for first-time parents
Boston.com (blog)
This is not a typical parenting book, in fact, it's almost a cocktail table book with gorgeous photos by Abelardo Morell and an artsy format that you can dip into, reading only a page at a time. That alone is a sure sign that the author knows not only about babies ...
Author visits: Robert Goolrick, 'Heading Out to Wonderful'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Read more about Goolrick's books in my Reading List feature, which includes Goolrick's discussion of some favorite novels (take a bow, Leo Tolstoy) and the one he didn't finish. Goolrick's bookstore schedule this week: 7 p.m. July 30, Boswell Book Company, ...
iPad Book Review: Tokyo DisneySea in Photographs Review
MobileTechReview.com
The author begins the book with a brief introduction to the park, and he does a good job of putting Disney TokyoSea in the context of Disney park history. His idea that DisneySea is the logical next step in Disney theme park evolution is a very interesting one.
Free (e)books for all!
Escanaba Daily Press (blog)
Ever since they came out I've imagined myself reading The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy on one, or maybe a book on native plants while advising Captain Kirk that eating those purple berries “is not logical.” I still don't have an eReader. I don't have a spaceship either. I do, however, have a computer with eReader software installed. There are a number of choices in the free ebook reader game. I've listed some of the big players in the link section to the right. My personal favorite is the Free Kindle Reading Apps ...
Google moves to end authors' Google Books copyright lawsuit
ITProPortal
Google reached a landmark agreement with French book publishers last month that allows it to add out-of-print books by French authors to its library. The company has said more than four million English-language excerpts, out of some 20 million scanned ...
Book Review: PYG: The Memoirs Of Toby, The Learned Pig by Russell Potter
Blogcritics.org (blog)
As each page seemed to fly by I found myself no only believing Potter was an immensely talented and capable author but that Toby, the learned pig who was the purported true "author" of the book with Potter simply editing his porcine scribblings, was the ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
New book alleges Obama delayed Bin Laden decision 3 times before strike
American Thinker (blog)
Obama's close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to thebook. Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the ...
Google Wants Authors to End Class-action Lawsuit
JDJournal.com
... actions amounted to “massive copyright infringement.” However, Google says that the database actually helps people to find the authors and buy their books and that there is a “significant public benefit” from the work done by Google in digitizing and publishing the works ofauthors, though without their specific permission. ... digital artists may also sue. The lawsuit includes individual plaintiffs like the former New York Yankees baseball pitcher Jim Bouton, who is the author of “Ball Four.” Did you like this? Share it: ...
Book Review: Winter Journal by Paul Auster
Blogcritics.org (blog)
In a sense, the book is Auster's attempt to come to terms with the body/spirit dichotomy that haunts so much of literature and becomes even more evident as one ages and physical decay inevitably sets in. Over and over again he focuses on the fragility of the ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Casey Anthony's attorney comes to Miami
MiamiHerald.com
He'll be at Books & Books in Coral Gables at 8 p.m. Monday to talk about his newbook, Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story (BenBella, $26.99). Why open an office in South Florida? I'm a hometown boy. I like to say I'm Puerto Rican by way of ...
MiamiHerald.com
Book on Mossad confirms Israel assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists
World Socialist Web Site
But new allegations by authors Yossi Melman, a leading Israeli military and intelligence journalist who writes for Ha'aretz, and Dan Raviv, a CBS national political correspondent, reveal that the assassinations were all carried out by Mossad operatives who ...
Lexington psychiatrist writes book on parenting kids with autism
Wicked Local
Lexington resident Dr. Blaise Aguirre has seen firsthand the impact an autism spectrum diagnosis can have, not just on the child but on the child's family. An expert in child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy, Aguirre is the medical director of 3East at ...
Jeff Bezos, A Blonde, And A Book Walk Into A Bar (Part I) | TechCrunch
By Susanna Burke
Jeff Bezos, A Blonde, And A Book Walk Into A Bar (Part I). Susanna Burke. posted yesterday. Comments. Screen shot 2012-07-29 at 6.12.53 AM. While I find technology and innovation in technology to be intellectually fascinating and fun to ...
TechCrunch
Jeff Bezos discusses Kindle, e-books, and future of reading ...
By Chris Meadows
On Kindle Nation Daily, Len Edgerly posts the transcript of an 18-minute interview he had with Jeff Bezos in which they discussed the Kindle, Kindle Fire, the future of e-books, and other interesting topics. Bezos discusses being amazed at how ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
In which I try to buy an ebook « Everybody's Libraries
By John Mark Ockerbloom
But I wanted to buy electronic books as well– books I liked that weren't being offered for free or in bundles; books where I could support the authors and publishers through my purchase. Unfortunately, there weren't many ... A file I paid for wouldn' t be a book I owned, it would be a file that I licensed under a non-negotiable contract, and I could only do with the file what the vendor, the publisher, and other parties to the agreement decreed I could do. The file itself would be encrypted with ...
Everybody's Libraries
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones - The Book Smugglers
By Ana
How did I get this book: Bought. Why did I read this book: I love DWJ's books and have been building a DWJ's library little by little. I bought a A Tale of Time City recently and decided to read it now since I was in the mood for a Time Travel story.
The Book Smugglers
Summer List: More Readings in New Academic Books – Africa is a ...
By Lily Saint
A difficult but rewarding book, The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes (Princeton UP, 2011), zeroes in on the shame that inheres for writers in the postcolony when the question, “how to write without thereby contributing to the material ... Focusing on works by a cross-section of writers from the global south, Bewes examines “what possibilities exist for a literary form that might be adequate to the ethical complexity of the postcolonial world” suggesting particularly that South ...
Africa is a Country
Literary Rambles: ANGELA ACKERMAN AND BECCA PUGLISI ...
By Natalie Aguirre
Today I'm excited to interview Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, co-partners of The Bookshelf Muse blog and co-authors of THE EMOTION THESAURUS: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO CHARACTER EXPRESSION, their debut book that was released in May, ... I have always had a passion for writing and books, and as a kid, I loved nothing better than to get lost in a story because it helped me cope with some of the darker aspects of my childhood. ... Why did you decide to self-publish it?
Literary Rambles
Do Some Damage: Real Books That Don't Exist
By Brian Lindenmuth
Real Books That Don't Exist. The Edgar award winning author Jorge Luis Borges wrote about The Library of Babel, a library that is said to contain every book that was every written and will be written. In that spirit I wanted to take a look at some ... don't you wish you could go read those books right now. I contacted some of the authors mentioned here to try and get some information on these lost titles that still haven't seen the light of day. Lynn Kostoff responded: #1:author bio/Long Fall ...
Do Some Damage
'The Forbidden Book' Co-Author Joscelyn Godwin on Occult of ...
By Disinformation
Scholar of occult history and co-author, with Guido Mina di Sospiro, of esoteric thriller The Forbidden Book is a guest on the Occult of Personality. ... 'The Forbidden Book' Co-AuthorJoscelyn Godwin on Occult of Personality Podcast. Posted by ...
Disinformation
Marathon Pundit: New book: Valerie Jarrett talked Obama out of Bin ...
By John Ruberry
At the urging of Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21. The Daily Caller has ... to the book. Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.
Marathon Pundit
Fantasy Book Critic: GUEST POST: The Literary Odyssey of Ilona ...
By The Reader
Press Release: Jo Fletcher Books acquires The Shiv... Focus on 3 older SF titles: David .... Her parents were Russian intelligentsia and her father pushed her toward authors like Arthur C. Clark, Robert Sheckley and Isaac Asimov when she was all of eight years old. One particular Sheckley story sticks .... AUTHOR INFORMATION: Andrew Gordon is one half of Ilona Andrews, the pseudonymous husband-and-wife writing team along with Ilona Gordon. Together, Andrew and Ilona are ...
Fantasy Book Critic
Question – When You Re-Read a Book, Do You Read It Cover to ...
By Julie
Did I skim the Fever books by Karen Marie Moning when I re-read them before Shadowfever was released? ... Yes. Yes I did. Does anyone re-read Phury's book from cover to cover, really? But did I skim while re-reading Lover Mine? Nope. Love that book! Most re-reads, I skim. It's funny but I mostly skim the sex scenes when I re-read. Not all of them, not the especially hot ones, but most because my favorite part of any book is the dialogue and the ... This Week's FeaturedAuthor ...
Yummy Men and Kick Ass Chicks
Science Fiction Author Bypasses Traditional Publishing
Kalkion (blog)
High profile success stories like J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, and John Locke have uncovered profitable niches of readership by indie publishing their work using sites like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords. Edstrom hopes to do the same in the ...
Kalkion (blog)
“Book bombshell: Obama canceled Bin Laden 'kill' raid three times ...
Obama's close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to thebook. Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites ...
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