Book Review Podcast: Nathan Harden on 'Sex and God at Yale'

Book Review Podcast: Nathan Harden on 'Sex and God at Yale'
New York Times (blog)
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Hanna Rosin reviews “Sex and God at Yale,” in which Nathan Harden details the debauchery hiding in plain sight in the Ivy League. Ms. Rosin writes that his account is revealing, but: …not revealing enough ...

No back-to-school for me
The Ranger
The surprising bestseller skyrocketed to the top of the charts a quarter century ago. Robert Fulghum's instant classic "All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten" hit No. 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list for non-fiction hardback books ...

The ebook: still in its 'early days' in PHL, but a growing option
GMA News
In 2001, Reileen Tan discovered ebooks — the large resource of literature available for download online. "Once I realized there were [many] books to be had, I started downloading them to read," she said. It was the beginning of a habit that she keeps ...

Victoria Barnsley: 'We can't think of ourselves as book publishers any more'
The Guardian
It means publishers rather than retailers now set the prices of e-books. Agency deals kicked in two years ago and their impact has been significant in the US: Amazon, which had controlled 90% of e-book sales thanks in part to low prices, has been ...

The Guardian

Learn How to Publish on Amazon with Number One Book System, to be ...
PR Web (press release)
Since digital eBooks began outselling print books on Amazon, Digital Marketer has worked to uncover the reasons and best strategies for Kindle's domination. Quote end. Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 26, 2012. Learning how to publish on Amazon will be a ...

PR Web (press release)

HealthCompare To Take On Health Insurance Consumer Lack of Information Via ...
PR Web (press release)
Through the use of e-books, HealthCompare chooses to release titles in the self-development line of books that Americans can use as guides when navigating these waters of life. Aware of the explosion in the publishing industry and the staggering ...

PR Web (press release)

Publishing for Kindle with Number One Book System Includes Kindle Sales ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Publishing for Kindle and monitoring an eBook's performance just got a lot easier, thanks to the Kindle Sales Rank Calculator has been released by Digital Marketer as they continue to approach the complete launch of the Number One Book System.

Bestselling Author Mary Mackey Publishes Ten eBooks on Vook
Melodika.net (press release)
Author Mary Mackey has published nine novels and a book of poetry on Vook's online store at Vook.com. Vook is also distributing the ten eBooks to Barnes & Noble and Apple's iBookstore. Spanning millennia and continents, Mary's novels grapple with ...

LeapFrog upgrades its kid tablet
USA TODAY
The Ultra eBooks provide phonics help when kids tap on the words to hear them sounded out; and some words can be defined. The books embed games within the stories that help with reading comprehension. The illustrations animate; and touching on ...

USA TODAY

Who needs a new library? We do!
GalesburgPlanet.com
It is sometimes said that modern technologies – the Internet, e-books, and other new developments – are making libraries obsolete, or at least less important. I'm reminded of a speaker, a “technology expert,” at a librarians conference I attended about ...

Learning centre for the visually challenged
The Hindu
The centre is equipped to print Braille books and has plans to set up a Braille library. The visually impaired can use the Internet, read full text e-books, e-journals, e-theses, and so on. “As the text is converted into speech with the help of ...

You can check out library eReaders
Daily Comet (blog)
... good standing and can show a valid photo ID. The ereaders must be returned 20 minutes before the library closes. The library also has a digital catalog of ebooks and audio books, which can be accessed online at the system's website, www.lafourche.org.

Learning Resources – Free Microsoft Press e-books - My Learnings ...
By Ashish Goyal
My experiments with IIS and ASP.Net. We will also include AJAX, MVC and few others like JQuery.
My Learnings - ASP.Net, IIS and more..

Fraud All The Way Down In eBooks | Mike Cane's xBlog
By mikecane
One thing that made a difference is not mentioned in “How I Sold One Million E-Books.” That October, Mr. Locke commissioned Mr. Rutherford to order reviews for him, becoming one of the fledging service's best customers. “I will start with 50 ...
Mike Cane's xBlog

The Hard Grind – Marketing Your Self Published Book » The Vandal
By Derek Haines
Book Marketing While self publishing has given authors and writers all the tools necessary to publish a quality ebook or paperback, there is one element that remains a stumbling block. Getting a bookto sell. Book marketing is tough, hard work ...
The Vandal

E-Books Go Global: A look at e-book growth around the world ...
A hearty and sincere thank you goes out to the Virginia-based poet and journalist Beth Wellington this morning, for alerting.
www.teleread.com/.../e-books-go-global-a-look-at-e-book-gro...

Birkhäuser to launch over 300 e-Books in architecture, design, and ...
Basel, 23 August 2012 – At the end of September the publishing house Birkhäuser will launch one of the largest collections of e-books in the fields of ...
www.libraries.wright.edu/.../birkhauser-to-launch-over-300-e-...

On Books: Value in an eBook World - The Digital Reader
eBooks have changed the way we think of value in regards to books. For myriad reasons, ebookers think that the price of ebooks should be no more than the ...
www.the-digital-reader.com/.../on-books-value-in-an-ebook-w...

Sharon Creech YA eBooks on Sale - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Sharon Creech YA eBooks on Sale. by SB Sarah | August 21, 2012 | Tuesday at 5:12 pm | 17 Comments · Absolutely Normal Chaos (Amazon link) with a girl in ...
smartbitchestrashybooks.com/.../sharon-creech-ya-ebooks-on-...

Book rentals, ebooks are changing the landscape for college ...
For decades there was one option when it came to college students and text books; go to the university bookstore and stand in a long line to buy a stack of new ...
www.mainlinemedianews.com/.../doc503767d5bafa65855021...

Are PDF E-Books Still Key for Developing Digital Markets ...
As digital markets develop, we'll likely see more walled garden platforms emerge, even if the seeds for these were sown in the humble PDF.
publishingperspectives.com/.../are-pdf-e-books-still-key-for-d...

Apple eyes book prize sponsorship, marks ebooks as next tech ...
Apple eyes book prize sponsorship, marks ebooks as next tech battleground - Will Apple be the next sponsor of the (formerly) Orange Prize for Fiction? Buying ...
www.techradar.com/.../apple-eyes-book-prize-sponsorship-ma...

The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé - Project Gutenberg
Download the free eBook: The Complete Opera Book by Gustav ...
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40540

Kindle books vs. ebooks
If you are a web content writer who wants to increase your earnings, you may move up to the next level. For most, this is e-books. Although you can write e-bo.
www.slideshare.net/AmyHarrop/kindle-books-vs-ebooks

Report from SLA: Librarians and Publishers Still Have Problems ...
In the Wild West,' Rebecca Vargha of the University of North Carolina's Library told the meeting during her discussion about 'e-books: promises and realities'.
www.infodocket.com/.../report-from-sla-librarians-and-publis...

Sell books online | Sell ebooks online - Sell Downloadable Books ...
Shopify makes it easy to sell books and ebooks through hundreds of professionally designed templates, secure hosting, lightning fast servers and customized ...
www.shopify.com/sell/ebooks

e-Books - Earth Science Technology Office - NASA
Login to E-Books. e-Books is an online project management tool used by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). The e-Books system is key to our ...
esto.nasa.gov/technologists_ebooks.html

Are E-Books Greener Than Printed Books?
It's been awhile since I posted on the TechSoup for Libraries blog on whether digital books and the devices that people use to read them like Kindles, Nooks, ...
forums.techsoup.org/.../are-ebooks-greener-than-printed-book...

Industry News - Amazon, Ebooks, Apple, & Book Covers - and ...
Libraries are still having issues with ebooks, especially text books - improper formatting, ebookpricing, availability, etc. Read full article at Research Information ...
circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com/.../industry-news-amazon-e...

Ebook sales key in Harry Potter vs. 'Hunger Games' battle - Tampa ...
This month, Amazon.com announced that Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy had outsold J.K. Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series. Hunger Games ' ...
www.tampabay.com/features/books/ebook.../1247651

Author, Rev. Duerre Thomas makes amazon.com best seller's list
The Freeport News
Pastor Thomas recently authored and released his fifth book The Faithbook- 279 Inspirational Quotes for Facebook that has taken Amazon.com best sellers' list by storm. Debuting at #94 in the quotations category within two days of the book's release and ...

Atlanta's Pearl Cleage Reads Latest Theatrical Production at Shrine of the ...
Atlanta Black Star
Atlanta playwright and New York Times Best Seller author Pearl Cleage, affectionately known as 'Sister Pearl', will read from her latest theatrical production, What I Learned in Paris, on Sunday afternoon at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural ...

Learn the 7 habits of Stephen R. Covey
Tampabay.com
He was best known for his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has sold more than 29 million copies and has been translated into 38 languages. What makes this book such a best seller? It has clear, commonsense advice anyone can translate ...

Cozy Chicks: This Book is a Bestseller? Huh?
By Leann Sweeney
One thing these last two books have in common is unlikeable protagonists. I don't know if this is a trend--but both these books hit #1 on the NYT bestseller list. They left me feeling sad, disgusted and wondering what it is about these books that ...
Cozy Chicks

Medieval best-seller explores morality through science | ASU News
Medieval best-seller explores morality through science. Posted: August 22, 2012. The Moral Treatise on the Eye. "The Moral Treatise on the Eye" combines ...
https://asunews.asu.edu/20120822_medieval

Book Review: 'Diary of a DA'
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
In his book “Diary of a DA: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Took on the Mob, Fought Corruption and Won,” to be published this week, Stern uses transcripts from FBI wiretaps that were printed in Life magazine to document its depth. Richie “The Boot...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Book Review: "Resiliency: Why Things Bounce Back" by Zolli and Healy
Forbes
In their book, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, they walk the reader through several important case studies that illustrate how “preserving adaptive capacity—the ability to adapt to changed circumstances while fulfilling once core purpose—[is] an ...

Forbes

Book review: 'My Lucky Stars' a sweet, sappy love story
Deseret News
“My Lucky Stars” is a book about faith, love and trust. Though the storyline is unbelievable, it is a touching story about the gospel's ability to change hearts. The best part of the book is when Ben takes Tara shopping at a Deseret Industries store ...

Deseret News

Book review: Fifty Shades of Grey
The Express Tribune
The book is classified as erotic fiction, where I am sure the word 'erotic' is used in the loosest sense of the word. If erotic passages are meant to induce an almost impossible combination of disbelief, cringing and inadvertent hilarity then, by all ...

The Express Tribune

Book review / Season's greetings: Paul Auster's 'Winter Journal'
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The recent knock against American literature is that it's "insular" and "isolated," at least according to one grumpy Nobel Prize judge. As an antidote to those gripes, I'd like to press a few of Mr. Auster'sbooks into more Swedish hands. For a start ...

Book review: “Dead Man's Tunnel” by Sheldon Russell
NewsOK.com
Runyon, a crusty, one-armed ex-hobo, is a railroad detective who deserves more respect than he gets. When he isn't using his wits and his fist, he spends time seeking rare books, usually at dusty estate sales. Mixer, his devoted dog, adds spice to the ...

Book review / 'Syndrome E': a police thriller with Gallic flair
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The book, the first of a series, introduces Chief Inspector Franck Sharko of the Paris Bureau of Violent Crimes, a 50-something criminal profiler, and the younger Lucie Hennebelle, a lieutenant in the Criminal Investigations unit of the Lille Police ...

Book review / Paula Bomer's 'Nine Months': an unvarnished tale of a mom gone ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Book review / Paula Bomer's 'Nine Months': an unvarnished tale of a mom gone 'round the bend. Sympathy for the Anti-Mother. August 26 ... She writes about parenting and children's books atwww.instantlyinterruptible.com. First Published August 26, 2012 ...

Book review: Tallula Rising
Anniston Star
As if to dispute the title of the book he's in, Jake has left his lover Tallula Demetriou pregnant and still tracked by WOCOP (World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena) — for werewolves are valuable to the vampires tracking them ...

Book Review: That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous ...
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Eric Kester is a funny guy. You will laugh at That Book about Harvard if you have a bit of humor in your body. And, if you have ever gone to college, you will identify with it, whether your college was a super-competitive Ivy League school or not ...

Blogcritics.org (blog)

Book review: 'Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero' a fun read
Deseret News
Book review: 'Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero' a fun read. Print; Font [+] [-]. Leave a comment ». By Shelby ... "EPIC TALES OF A MISFIT HERO," by Matt Peterson, Bonneville Books, $8.99, 95 pages (f) (ages 12 and up). “Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero” by Matt ...

Deseret News

Book Review | 'High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky'
The Courier-Journal
This book is told in an alternating narrative, where each author provides his own opinions and reasoning as to what they were trying to accomplish. This back-and-forth style is entertaining and keeps the reader wondering how these two authors ever made ...

'ANTI-OBAMA' BOOKS BY KLEINS DOMINATE NYT BESTSELLER ...
The New York Times bestseller list today features two books critical of President ... Ed Klein's “The Amateur,” which has graced the bestseller list for weeks, ...
kleinonline.wnd.com/.../anti-obama-books-by-kleins-dominate...

Book Review: The Brief Against Obama : Kaieteur News
By KNews
Author makes convincing case against US President. By Dr Glenville Ashby.genvilleashby@gmail.com. Huge Hewitt – a savvy attorney and talk show host, uses an artful combination of glib, rhetoric, and legal accoutrements to argue against ...
Kaieteur News

Book Review: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity ...
By Blog Admin
Janet Hunter takes issue with the absence of nuancing in the book, but is nevertheless impressed by its striking historical narratives which will do much to captivate readers and stimulate debate. Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, ...
EUROPP

New York Times Manga Best Seller List, August 12-18 - News ...
Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Bakuman, 2 Bleach volumes, Dawn of the Arcana, new Air Gear, Alice in the Country of Hearts, Kamisama Kiss, new Cage of Eden, Fairy Tail.
www.animenewsnetwork.com/.../new-york-times-manga-best-...

Sacramento author learns the hard way about Facebook impostors
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012. For anyone who knows Judie Fertig Panneton, a Sacramento-based writer and author, that grammatically mangled Facebook post was clearly not from her. But it sure looked like Panneton's Facebook page. It had her smiling photo, along with the 86 ...

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