Fantasy author Neil Gaiman signs on for five more books with Harper Children's

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman signs on for five more books with Harper Children's
New York Daily News (blog)
Though rumors have long circulated about Neil Gaiman's next literary pursuit, there is finally a solid piece of news: Gaiman has signed a five-book deal with Harper Children's, HarperCollins children'sbook division, as reported by Publishers' Weekly ...

Turned On by '50 Shades'
Daily Beast
News of the reissue of Anne Rice's classic Sleeping Beauty erotica trilogy got us to go searching for more books that will sate your appetite once you're done with the E.L. James novels.

Marion Cunningham, Home Cooking Advocate, Dies at 90
New York Times
Mrs. Cunningham, a mentor to many top chefs and foodies, rewrote “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook,” a project that spawned more of her books, a TV show and a newspaper column.

New York Times

Books That Provide Insights on Power and Ambition
Huffington Post
One has to work hard and long to find a novel with more insight into the complex nature of ambition than this book by the French author Marie-Henri Beyle writing under the nom de plume, Stendhal. Attracting little ... For more information on Warren ...

Startup Livrada to sell ebook gift cards in U.S. Target stores
paidContent.org
In an effort to make ebook gift-giving more spontaneous and fun, Los Angeles-based startup Livrada is partnering with Target to sell gift cards for bestselling ebook titles like "50 Shades of Grey" and "Gone Girl" in the chain's 1771 stores nationwide ...

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Late Newark Evening News publisher Richard B. Scudder remembered as ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
View full sizeHelen H. Davis/The Denver PostThis April 11, 2000 photo shows William Dean Singleton, CEO, vice-chairman and president of MediaNews corp. left, with Richard Scudder, chairman of the board for MediaNews Corp. after the announcement that ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

E-book struggles
Columbus Dispatch
Late last year, Penguin announced it no longer would sell e-book licenses to libraries, joining other publishers who are shutting libraries out for now. Then, last month, Penguin announced a pilot project to make e-books available through the New York ...

Columbus Dispatch

Book Talk: Eamonn Gearon tackles "mysterious" Sahara
Reuters
Author and analyst Eamonn Gearon wandered the Sahara for years, often on the back of a camel, before he wrote "The Sahara: A Cultural History", a book that dispels myriad myths about a place and people long caricatured by clueless foreigners. Q: What ...

Tehran Abuzz as Book Says Israel Killed 5 Scientists
New York Times
The book, “Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars,” has set off a buzz among both government and opposition news media inside Iran for the assertion by its authors — Yossi Melman, widely regarded as a leading Israeli military and ...

HealthCompare Will Release Ebooks To Continue The Education of American ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Seeing the boom in the self-publishing industry and the spike in ebook sales, HealthCompare intends to reach record numbers of consumers with titles such as “The College Survival Guide” and “Taking the Leap to Becoming Self-Employed.” The affordability ...

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Amazon Best Selling Author Named Finalist for 2012 Global EBook Awards and ...
Sacramento Bee
PRNewswire/ -- The new book called Do NOT Invent Buggy Whips by award-winning and Amazon best-selling author Ken Thurber has been notified that it was named a Finalist in four different categories in the 2012 Global EBook Awards. The book was ...

How-To Publisher Open Air Raises $800K From SV Angel, Charles River, And ...
TechCrunch
In the same way, Feldman says there's an opportunity to create books that are written and designed entirely for the iPad, the iPhone, and eventually other devices, rather than just slapping some digital extras onto a traditional book. Open Air was ...

TechCrunch

Book Review and Author Interview: Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
Wired News
I'm not sure whether to tell you to put reading Kill Decision on hold until you've read the earlier two novels or not, but I can tell you that all three books should be on a geek reader's Must Read list. Anyway, back to Kill Decision . Right now, we ...

Neil Gaiman signs a 5-book deal for the kids
Los Angeles Times
Neil Gaiman has signed a 5-book deal with HarperCollins, but it doesn't include his new book for adults, "Lettie Hempstock's Ocean." ... Books, authors and all things bookish ... But adult fans of the author will have to wait for another Gaiman book ...

Fifty Shades of Grey author's saucy tale was inspired by her Latin roots, says ...
Daily Mail
Ms Mitchell said she had read the books three times and 'absolutely loved them'. However, she admitted she is usually a fan of thrillers. Despite dominating the bookchart and surpassing the sales of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and Dan Brown's Da Vinci...

Daily Mail

Book excerpt: 'Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a Single Mom'
Deseret News
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 "Strip Parenting Down to the Basics Cut Your Expectations" of the book "Bay and Her. ... There is hope for single parents,author Bay Buchanan says in new book 'Bay and Her Boys' ...

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Marion Cunningham, Author of Learning to Cook, Dies
People Magazine
The champion of American cuisine and Learning to Cook author was 90. ... Her other booksincluded The Breakfast Book, Cooking with Children and Lost Recipes, and she had her own Food Network show, Cunningham & Company. Among her many honors ...

Literary Leisure: Start or join a book club
Napa Valley Register
Ten years ago, I was inspired to start a book group that I named the “International Food and BookClub,” with the idea being that each month the host would choose a book either written by a foreign author or based in a foreign country for the group to ...

Woman transforms hardships into several books
San Jose Mercury News
Around Pleasanton: Woman transforms hardships into several books. ... Pleasanton author Annette Langer was recently selected by publishers of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series to contribute an article titled "A Long and Bumpy Road to Relief" about ...

Go retro, read a book
Hamburg Sun
While this is true, I believe that the hunt for a book can be half the fun. I love going to used book stores like Crazy4Bookz on Main Street in Hamburg and Rust Belt Booksin Allentown, Buffalo, inhaling the scent of the musty tomes as I peruse the ...

Hamburg Sun

Could the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Possibly Be Any Good?
E! Online
"The only way to make it into a crowd-pleasing film that will earn all of its money back is to pretty much tear everything out of the book," says author and screenwriter Christopher Farnsworth, whose Nathaniel Cade vampire series is being adapted for ...

E! Online

Karl Lagerfeld teams with Wallpaper for scent Paper Passion: The scent of of ...
New York Daily News
Karl Lagerfeld teams with Wallpaper for scent Paper Passion: The scent of of 'freshly printed books'. 'I am a paper ... Inspired by German publisher Gerhard Steidl's comments that his favorite scent was "a freshly printed book," Wallpaper magazine has ...

New York Daily News

Kobo updates Touch eReader software and Desktop app, heads to ...
By Brian Heater
The Kobo Desktop app, meanwhile, has gotten some tweaks to its profile quiz, to better help the company recommend books to suit your taste. The company also announced that it'll be bringing the Touch eReader to Italy, courtesy of the ...
Engadget

How to Add Google Author Tags to Your Blog for Improved Search ...
By Don Power
Does Google know you're the author of the content you publish online? If you answered “I don't know,” chances are you haven't heard of a very powerful piece of HTML markup code known as rel=”author”. When implemented correctly on ...
Social Media Examiner

Literary Criticism » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog
By R.R. Reno
But it was his other big book, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (1971), that I remember best. I read it while working on a large project about “transcendence.” (Granted, that sounds grandiose, but I was ...
First Thoughts

John Resig - Secret Omens: Book Update
By John Resig
Some time last year Manning brought on a co-author, Bear Bibeault, to finish the book and get it out the door. He's done a bunch of revision bringing it up-to-date and just the other week I finally wrote the preface. It's in final revisions now and ...
John Resig

Make Your Book and Media Shelves Spell Out Their Purpose
By Adam Dachis
Make Your Book and Media Shelves Spell Out Their Purpose Bookshelves can quickly become an unsorted, cluttered mess of media when you start putting random books, films, games, and other things wherever they'll fit. While you can't ...
Lifehacker

Rielle Hunter's Mediocre Book Sales Stall Media Tour.. Whomp ...
By Perez Hilton
While that number did allow the book crack the New York... ... More so, many sources are speculating that the lackluster sales of the tell-all book have caused the controversial author to shelve the rest of her book tour. .... Someone might remind Rielle she's not welcome anywhere when she attacks the mother of those children and none of us like her or forgive her or want her around .. and her book .. go suck it. .. let Johnny buy those books up, we know who both of you are .. rotten and ...
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Three online tools to produce ebooks in-house – Part 2: Vook ...
By Paul Biba
From Martin Taylor's eReport: This is a follow-up to my earlier post on PressBooks, one of the new breed of online tools for ebook publishing that have. ... Connect. TeleRead - News and views onebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME ... Vook started life as a publisher of enhanced ebooks, incorporating video, audio and interactive features into its works (the name was a play on 'video books'). ... Jim on "New Sony ereader for pre-order at $180 - Posted on July 11, 2012...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

Books - Flavorwire
We were, all three of us, shocked by the board's decision (non-decision), because we were, in fact, thrilled, not only by the books we'd nominated but by several ...
www.flavorwire.com/.../michael-cunningham-explains-what-h...

A Bastille Day ebook giveaway from Le French Book | TeleRead ...
From the press release: The new direct-to-digital publisher Le French Book is ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... France, and the recent explosion ine-reader ownership provides a perfect medium to ... He is one of France's foremost proponents of e-books and one of the first ...
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Terry Goodkind Smites an eBook Pirate
Good E-Reader (blog)
It was released earlier this month and quickly rose to the top of Amazons best seller list. With any digital content, piracy runs rampant. Goodkind employed the ... Terry posted the following, “So Josh, how about it — no respect for a hard-working ...

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