Cover revealed for new JK Rowling novel

Cover art revealed for JK Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy'
USA TODAY
Little, Brown will publish the first adult novel by the celebrated author of the seven Harry Potter novels on Sept. 27. Here's the plot summary for the 512-page novel released by Rowling's publisher: "When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties ...

USA TODAY

Publisher released cover for new JK Rowling novel, 'The Casual Vacancy'
Washington Post
Books · Comics · Going Out Guide · Horoscopes · Movies · Museums · Music · Puzzles · Theater & Dance · TV · Blogs & Columns · jen_chaney ... “The Casual Vacancy” will be the Harry Potterauthor's first offering aimed primarily at adults. The novel is ...

Publisher: Here's cover of new JK Rowling novel
Chicago Sun-Times
“The Casual Vacancy” will be the Harry Potter author's first offering aimed primarily at adults. The novel is set in the fictional English town of Pagford and deals with the unexplained death of a village resident. (AP Photo/Little, Brown Book Group ... 

JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy Book Cover
People Magazine
Judging a book by its cover, J.K. Rowling is indeed making her transition from Harry Potter to adult (or should we say Muggle?) fiction. Publisher Little, Brown and Company released the cover of her latest literary endeavor, The Casual Vacancy, a ...

JK Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' cover revealed
Los Angeles Times
Get a look at the cover for JK Rowling's first book for adults, The Casual Vacancy. It will be ... Jacket Copy. Books, authors and all things bookish ... Author J.K. Rowling has written her first book for adults, and it's coming soon. "The Casual ...

Battle for Japan's e-book market to commence
Canada.com
In highly-literate and gadget-loving Japan, e-books are curiously rare -- but battle for the largely-untapped. ... When e-commerce giant Rakuten unleashes its Kobo e-reader onto Japan later this month, it will fire the opening shots in the scrap for ...

Rakuten launching e-reader service in Japan
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Building on acquisition of e-reader maker Kobo, Japanese e-commerce company will start selling e-reader and e-books localized for its home market. ... Online commerce company Rakuten will launch an e-book service localized for the Japanese ...

Another Reason Not to Get an E-Reader
Publishers Weekly (blog)
In which children's booksellers ponder all things literary, artistic, and mercantile. Home ... I read with horror the Wall Street Journal's article about people's reading habits being logged and sifted over by their e-reader. Honestly, I'm not ...

Convert MS Word docs to e-books for free
CNET
The Smashwords e-book-publishing service transforms Word's DOC files into the EPUB, MOBI, and other e-book formats, but only if you shun text boxes, tables, and other common formatting elements in the file, as the handy Smashwords guide explains. Read ...

Battle is joined for Japan's e-book market
Phys.Org
When e-commerce giant Rakuten unleashes its Kobo e-reader onto Japan later this month, it will fire the opening shots in the scrap for literary territory, hoping for a slice of the $23.5 billion Japanese spend on books annually. The Kobo is set to be ...

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Washington Post (blog)
The new book by the “Harry Potter”' author strikes a more adult pose. ... Rowling's previous booksmade famous the U.S. cover illustrator Mary GrandPre for her rich depictions of the magical world of Harry Potter. They often showed Harry Potter fleeing ...

See the cover for 'The Casual Vacancy' by J.K. Rowling
Entertainment Weekly
Little, Brown has released the cover for The Casual Vacancy, which is sure to be one of the buzziestbooks of the year when it's released Sept. 27. Following the aesthetics of recent literary titles like The Marriage Plot and The Art of Fielding, Harry ...

Japan e-book battle heats up
News24
Japan e-book battle heats up| News24|Sci-Tech|News| In highly-literate Japan, e-books are curiously rare - but battle for the largely-untapped and potentially hugely lucrative market is about to commence. ... When e-commerce giant Rakuten unleashes its ...

Garrett Gill/Flickr
The Atlantic
Publishers, booksellers, and authors generally agreed that Amazon's practice of selling bestsellers and many newly released e-books at below the price they were paying to publishers was to encourage Kindle sales and, eventually, to monopolize the...

The Atlantic

New JK Rowling Book Cover, Page Count Revealed For 'The Casual Vacancy'
Huffington Post
Today, the Hachette website revealed JK Rowling's cover and page count for new book "The Casual Vacancy." ... J.K. Rowling's follow-up to her smash Harry Potter book series will be a novel for adults entitled The Casual Vacancy, the British author and ...

Publisher reveals cover of J.K. Rowling's first book for adults
STLtoday.com (blog)
Little, Brown has released the cover of J.K. Rowling's first book marketed to adults. ... The bookblog is a place to nuzzle up with authors, publishers and bookworms and talk about issues related to books. What were the best books you read last year ...

'Clifford' Publisher Scholastic Sees Red Over State Sales Tax Grab
Forbes
Twenty years after Quill, children's book publisher asks Supreme Court to intervene in case that could have implications for Internet merchants like Amazon.com, too.

Forbes

Do you want Amazon, B&N monitoring your reading?
STLtoday.com (blog)
A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal had a big story about how e-readers have book apps that help. ... Barnes & Noble announced last month that its fiscal fourth-quarter loss narrowed as the company continues to invest in its Nook e-reader business ...

Douglas Adams On "Getting The Book Invented Properly"
Chicagoist
Back in the early 90s, the author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recorded a tidbit of his prophetic genius for his publisher Bob Stein at Voyager Expanded Books. The topic: evolution of the book. In the recording, Adams provided us with a silly ...

Book review: First lady's 'American Grown' tells of garden, mission
Los Angeles Times
Her efforts to garden on the White House lawn and to involve people all over the country in growing food are the subject of her first book, "American Grown." (All author proceeds go to the National Park Foundation.) Full of pictures of gorgeous gardens ...

I look at India through a woman's eyes: Diplomat-author Vikas Swarup (Interview)
New York Daily News
New Delhi, July 3 — Diplomat Vikas Swarup, the celebrity author of the novel. ... The writer says hisbooks are mirrors of a contemporary and multi-ethnic India which is on the fast-track to becoming a global power-centre. "My book, Six Suspects, has ...

Archos 7od eReader
Computerworld
... but we've yet to see one that we would consider a bargain. And here comes the Archos 7odeReader, an ebook reading device half the price of the Amazon Kindle Touch, and a significant APS30 cheaper than the basic Amazon Kindle. ... Both are ...

Kobo eReader Touch up for pre-order in Japan, hitting market with ...
By Brian Heater
Ever since Rakuten revealed its intentions to scoop up Kobo, the e-reader maker was clearly destined to hit the Japanese market. As noted a week or so back, the company's eReader Touch will be arriving the Land of the Rising Sun in July ...
Engadget

'Glee's' Jenna Ushkowitz to Write Book (Exclusive) - Hollywood ...
By Lesley Goldberg
Ushkowitz's book becomes the latest in Glee's literary endeavors. Little, Brown Books is in the process of publishing five Glee-related young-adult books with a rumored book and accompanying tour set about Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester.
Hollywood Reporter

11 Best Summer Books Of 2012
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The summer is in full flight, and it's time to take a vacation and settle down with a good book. ... Six by Elwood Reid. There is something more to this book that takes it out of the sports fiction genre and brings it into the realm of literary fiction.
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On-Demand eBook Service for K-12 Schools Announced from Brain ...
By Paul Biba
The online service, eponymously named Brain Hive™, will offer unlimited access to an eBookcollection valued at over $100000 from respected children's publishers. Students and educators may check out eBooks from Brain Hive on demand, ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

The Books That Arrived While I Was Away – Whatever
By John Scalzi
I've taken to showing the books that show up at the Scalzi Compound over on Twitter, but I didn't do that while I was on tour, because, duh, I was on tour. So by way of catching up, here's what showed up in June. I'm running the picture a little ...
Whatever

3 Books | dbqp: visualizing poetics
By Geof Huth
Instead, I want to write about three books of poetry I read on the same day almost two weeks ago. I rode busses (apologies, but I can't accept the American spelling in this case) three times that day, and I read each book during a separate bus ...
dbqp: visualizing poetics

Summer Book Sale at MoMA Design Store; Gurney Chopped - Curbed
By Sarah Firshein
THE INTERNET—Dust off those coffee tables: MoMA Design Store's summer book sale kicks off Thursday. Expect markdowns of up to 65 percent on art, architecture, and design books. [CurbedWire Inbox]. BETHESDA, MD.—A Robert Gurney ...
Curbed National

J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy eBook Will Cost $19.99 ...
By Jason Boog
Oxford University Press is looking for a Prepress Editorial Lead. next job Greenleaf Book Group is looking for a Distribution Account Executive. next job Trident Media Group is looking for a LiteraryAssistant. next job Globe Pequot Press is ...
GalleyCat

Free, open ebook offers ideas for rebooting American government ...
By bbehrens
Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, suggests that new technologies enable the many-to-many communication capable of "amplifying political action" and constructing new public spheres, particularly in the face of unprecedented media consolidation. ... The Personal Democracy Forum is selling printed copies of this Creative Commons-licensed collection through online retailers like Amazon, but the book is also available from the organization's website as a direct download.
opensource.com

Simon & Schuster Add QR Codes to Books | Geekosystem
By Max Eddy
Publisher and mega-company Simon & Schuster has announced that starting this fall they will be adding phone-scannable QR codes to their print books. You might expect that this would give you access to special content, like videos or even ...
Geekosystem

'Glee' star Jenna Ushkowitz is writing a book - 'Choosing Glee' - Zap2it
By Jean Bentley
jenna-ushkowitz-glee-book-gi.jpg Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch aren't the only writerly cast members on "Glee": Jenna Ushkowitz, who plays Tina Cohen-Chang on the FOX hit, is writing her own book. "Choosing Glee" will come out in spring of ...
From Inside the Box

Famous author closing 2013 Book Festival
Thecoastalsource
He has earned many accolades for his writing; most recently, he was inducted into the 2011 International Crime Writing Hall of Fame and received the 2012 Barnes & Noble Writers for WritersAward. With a passionate commitment to the belief that reading ...

Local author visits world's exotic Jewish communities
Sun-Sentinel
Author and Boynton Beach resident Ben G. Frank writes about his visits to Jewish communities around the world in "The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond."

Sun-Sentinel

eBook Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Good E-Reader (blog)
Verdict: 3.5 Stars Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel came out to high praise and her writing is certainly worthy. But her story was agonizing. ... Mercy Pilkington is a young-adult author and a teacher in a correctional facility. She does not have a ...

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