In The E-Book World, Are Book Covers A Dying Art?

In The E-Book World, Are Book Covers A Dying Art?
NPR
Life Upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "The author wanted an image 'out of time,' not specific to any one era, because the book spans centuries. I culled the conceptual emphasis from the ... Kidd, an associate art director at publisher Alfred A. Knopf, has designed book covers for the past 25 years for authors like Cormac McCarthy, John Updike, David Sedaris and Michael Crichton. Remember the menacing Tyrannosaurus ... Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books? June 21, 2012. No More E-Books Vs.

From the book jacket
Philadelphia Inquirer
Yet artists and teachers alike are embracing recent graphic novelizations of a dozen greatbooks, from the Bard of Avon's greatest tragedies to novels and short stories by Franz Kafka. The process moves apace with The Graphic Canon, a three-volume, ...

New book recounts how lawmakers, Wall Street crushed the American dream
Detroit Free Press
Highly decorated investigative writers Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele return in their eighthbook to their core topic: U.S. economic policy. But "The Betrayal of the American Dream" is no rerun. The avuncular authors, renowned for chillingly accurate, ...

New POLITICO e-book: Obama genuinely disdains Romney
Politico (blog)
President Barack Obama has developed a "genuine disdain" for Mitt Romney that he never had for previous opponents Hillary Clinton or John McCain, according to an excerpt from “Obama's Last Stand,” the third in POLITICO's series of ebooks on the 2012 ...

Book details Obama's dislike of Romney
USA TODAY (blog)
A forthcoming e-book discusses how personal the presidential race has become. When President Obama talked about Mitt ... Obama's Last Stand is the latest in a series of e-books on the campaign produced by Politico. Writes Thrush of the president's ...

USA TODAY (blog)

Book review: Marilyn Monroe, 50 years after death
Northwest Herald
There have been numerous books written about Monroe in the years since her death, and the new batch doesn't offer that much revelatory new information about the film star. ... "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox" (Bloomsbury USA), by Lois Banner: Author Lois Banner, an academic and gender historian, makes the case in this comprehensive biography that Monroe was a proto-feminist, overcoming a difficult childhood to create a movie star persona, taking complete control of her media image and starting her ...

Moonbird: A conversation with author Phillip Hoose
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
The publisher's description: “A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest ... As it turned out, the book had been out about three months, and Hoose was on an author tour to promote it, when there was astonishing news: A possible sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas.

Volunteer-turned-author to donate part of proceeds from book to wildlife ...
Baltimore Sun (blog)
She also writes articles for the Frisky's newsletter, which provided the narrative backbone for her newly released book, "Monkey Business: 37 Better Business Practices Learned Through Monkeys," published by iUniverse. A portion of proceeds from the book, ...

Baltimore Sun (blog)

Book review: 'In Search of Truth' is guide to Christian history
Deseret News
Many books have been written about the history of Christianity from the beginning of the Bible to the modern day, but only a handful contain an LDS perspective, keep the text in layman's terms and were written recently. A recently-released book by Robert L. Smith called "In ... Another weak point in the text is the author's attempt to relate expensive Guatemalan women's clothing to the "costly apparel" worn by proud people from the Book of Mormon in Alma 4:6. Overall, "In Search of Truth" is a fascinating study of ...

Deseret News

Jewelry, shoes, books recall aura of Marilyn Monroe
HispanicBusiness.com
To commemorate the anniversary of her untimely passing, books, jewelry lines, shoes and more inspired by her wardrobe seen round the world on the silver screen have been released. Want accessories that sparkle like a girl's best friend? HSN's Jewelry of ...

Louisiana inspires new children's books
The Daily Advertiser
There are several wonderful new children's books out this summer, some from Louisianaauthors and several dealing with Louisiana and associated topics. The Secret Mountain has published its third book-CD combination in their international collection of songs for families. "Songs in the Shade of The Flamboyant Tree: French Creole Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes" is a delightful picture book that celebrates the Creole songs and folk tales of the islands of Haiti, Guadalupe, Martinique and Reunion Island. Chantal ...

How to Make Your Business Book a Bestseller
Forbes
More than 1.5 million books were published last year. So how are you going to make sure yours gets noticed? Rob Eagar, author of Sell Your Book Like Wildfire: The Writer's Guide to Marketing & Publicity, says authors today have more opportunity to drive ...

Forbes

Lending e-books has hit a snag at libraries
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
The conflict involves e-books, which are electronic versions of traditional print books that can be read by using a personal computer or an electronic reader such as an Amazon Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, iPhone or iPad. Three major publishers ... An e-book that the library used to get for $26 is now $85, and mass-market paperback e-books that used to cost $7.99 now cost the library $26 each. Since the library ... “The library is very, very good about introducing me to newbooks and authors,” she said. And that helps ...

Tracy girl, 5, has a book of her own
San Jose Mercury News
TRACY -- She can't read yet, but Carly Abercrombie has published a book of her own. While most kids are buying pencils and getting ready for back-to-school, 5-year-old Carly Abercrombie is planning her first book signing for "The World According to Carly." ...

Author: Rolling Stones Played Up to Their Notoriety
NewsMax.com
Author and journalist Hanspeter Kuenzler engaged in a bit of time travel in researching hiseBook "50 Years: The Rolling Stones — Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside" and discovered a world where rock stars wore suits and ties and music was ...

Couple's books take off thanks to 'Fun Bunch'
Cincinnati.com
WEST CHESTER — A few casually drawn sketches of action heroes led to a new business for Todd and Temeca Jones when they harnessed their creativity and marketing skills to develop a line of educational books for children. The Joneses, who run the business out of ... They offer 10books they self publish through their website, funducate.net. Subjects include reading and math,... of children's books and a television show. They've also just introduced a new book and education initiative to prevent school bullying.

Esteemed authors tackle economy
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
The highly decorated investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele return in their eighth book to their core topic, U.S. economic policy. But “The Betrayal of the American Dream” is no rerun. The avuncular pair ... The authorsconvincingly show why buying most of the new bridge's components from China wasn't necessary — and ultimately saved California nothing, though it may have cost hundreds of Americans their jobs. It didn't even get the project done fast; the new span is slated to reopen in 2013, ...

Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Chester County Book & Music is closing its doors
Philadelphia Inquirer
She and her husband opened the store in 1982, but it now faces stiff competition from e-booksand online sales. 1 of 4. View images. Post a comment ... Her husband, who died in 2010, was a sales manager for a paperback publisher when they met. For the next three decades, Chester County Book & Music Co. found success competing in ways Amazon and the big chains can't, by offering personal service, a carefully chosen roster of books and music, and cozy author events. To be fair, not every book signing was ...

'Dear Kate' author explains how Hurricane Katrina helped him gain a new view ...
Washington Post
I tend to have a healthy dose of skepticism when financial advisers, who are working actively with clients, write such books. Are they just ... Every month, I randomly select readers to receive a copy of the featured book, which is donated by the publisher. For a ...

Book Notes: Beagle, Grant visit Auntie's for signings
The Spokesman Review
We have a couple late additions to the list of local author events and news of appearances by well-known authors to tell you about. So grab your coffee, sit back and let's get reading. First up: Peter S. Beagle, whose books have won Hugo and Nebula awards, will appear at Auntie's Bookstore from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. He will be on hand to sign his works, including 1968's ... Of course the big literary news is the recently announced return of David Sedaris to Spokane. The best-selling humor writer will be at the Martin ...

City of Women
USA TODAY
By David R. Gillham Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam ... And by Binet's standard, it may be that — unusually — a group of crime and espionage writers working on the subject of the Second World War, such as Philip Kerr and Alan Furst, have outdone their literary counterparts.... A (fictional) stenographer in Berlin, her husband — like so many, as the book's title indicates — is off on the front lines, and she lives every day with the stale terror of English bombings, food shortages and neighborly suspicion.

Author's quest for the truth leads to a 'Desert Reckoning'
The Desert Sun
Deanne Stillman stands at a podium under a spreading ficus tree at Skylight Books in L.A.'s Los Feliz district. She's reading passages from her book, “Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History.” ...

Author helps us get to know Freddie Mercury
MiamiHerald.com
On the shelves. Author helps us get to know Freddie Mercury. Get Adobe Flash player. book. Photo. In Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury (Touchstone, $26) award-winning UK rock journalist Lesley-Ann Jones lays out in detail the life of one of the most legendary frontmen to ... The author secured more than 100 interviews with those closest to Mercury, including his family in Zanzibar.... I told him my experiences of Freddie, following which my literary agent suggested that we re-publish the original.

MiamiHerald.com

Book Review: The Leopard Couch by Sax Rohmer
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Back in the sixties, the books made for crackling inventive entertainments, though their racist underpinnings--Rohmer's villain embodied Anglo culture's fears of the Yellow Peril--prove somewhat of a hindrance today. Rohmer wasn't the ... Image for this feature Sixty Minute Manga · Image for this feature Scott Butki's Book Time: Interviews with Authors · Image for this feature Spine Mingling: Author Interviews · Image for this feature Dark Alley Report · Image for this feature A Kid With a View · view more Books features ...

"People's Pension" Author: Social Security Cuts Would Hurt Ethnic Families Most
Truth-Out
New America Media's Paul Kleyman interviewed independent journalist Eric Laursen, author of the new book, The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan. ALSO SEE: Q&A: Eric Laursen on the Future of Social Security ...

Literary star falls as fast as he rose
Columbus Dispatch
After admitting that he fabricated Bob Dylan quotes and then lied about it, Lehrer's brief, glittering career as a literary star is over. He has lost his new job at The New Yorker, embarrassed the publisher of Imagine: How Creativity Works and shredded his ...

Columbus Dispatch

Want more ebooks in your library? Sign the petition. | TeleRead ...
By Dan Eldridge
This means that library customers can get a print copy of a book from a library, but can't get that same book in an ebook format. But that's not what our customers want. Our customers are readers – and our readers want books, in all formats, ...
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Katie's Book Blog: Book Haul (157)
By Katie
Info For Publishers. I am currently accepting YA books for review. I do not accept E-books. I also love to do interviews, guest posts, giveaways, or participate in blog tours. Do not hesitate to email me at katieb206@gmail.com ...

Katie's Book Blog

Shelf Porn Saturday | Something is awesome in the state of Denmark
By JK Parkin
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment. ... I much later discovered that the Danish publisher had used a Marvel Team-Up promo poster from 1983 by Ron Frenz for the cover, which I thought was really cool. I really was excited to find out who all those characters on the cover were, and would study them for ... Instead I have all books in open or closed cabin shelves, all bagged and boarded. (About 8400 comics.) Though I still have some...
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5 Low-Cost Social Media Marketing Strategies for Authors
By Leyl Master Black
Authors can tap social media in creative ways to promote their books and book tours. ... launch many titles per year, and when a book is considered a new title, it is at the forefront of the minds of the marketing staff … but the slate of the next season's titles is never far down on thepublisher's to-do list,” Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson write in Publish Your Photography Book. Even when you do have the support of a publisher, their marketing efforts will likely be limited.
Mashable » Media

eBook Royalty Tangle : Beyond Search
By Stephen E. Arnold
We learn that the ebook phenomenon seems to have prompted some creative accounting in techdirt's “Harlequin Authors Sue Publisher Over Creative Royalty Calculations.” The class-action lawsuit against Harlequin alleges that the publisher ...
Beyond Search

UCI bookstore ends author reading series | bookstore, store, dooros ...
By By ANDRA LIM
News: UCI bookstore ends author reading series | bookstore, store, dooros, irvine, author,books, book, sales, series, years. ... The UC Irvine bookstore – regarded in the local literarycommunity as one of Orange County's only bookstores with a cultural character – has discontinued its author reading series in the midst of other changes driven by financial issues. The bookstore was known for its author series, established in 1988 in conjunction with the highly ranked UC Irvine Master of ...
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Beth Kephart Books: Adding two new books to my scattershot world ...
By Beth Kephart
Today I'm the award-winning author of fourteen books—dreaming my way toward more by night, while running a boutique marketing communications firm by day. I'm privileged to teach creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania on ...
Beth Kephart Books

Why do Thais read so few books each year? | Asia News – Politics ...
By Bangkok Pundit
Just after Bangkok has been declared "World Book Capital 2013" by UNESCO, education expert Peter J. Foley wrote in August 2011 Many educators feel the general education level of the average Thai is even more dire than statistics like ...
Asia News - Politics, Media,...

The Millions : The Perils of Book Lending
By Nick Moran
We've all been there, right? Your neighbor lends you a book, you don't treat it very carefully, she complains, so you thrust a samurai sword inches from her face. It happens. Share this article. Tweet · E-mail,; Reddit,; StumbleUpon,; Share on ...
The Millions

In The E-Book World, Are Book Covers A Dying Art? | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
In the olden days, a reader might pick up a book because the cover was exciting, intriguing, maybe even beautiful. But in the brave new world of e-books and e-readers, it may be that those days are gone, when an artist named Chip Kidd could ...
KOSU Radio

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Interview with Libriomancer Author Jim C. Hines | GeekDad | Wired ...
2012 Hugo Award nominated author Jim C. Hines discusses Libriomancer, the first ... (The story was anthologized and later included in Hines' ebook Goblin Tales . ... get away with more of what authors refer to as “hand-waving” when it comes to the ... As you took the concept to abook-length project, how did you adapt and ...
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Want more ebooks in your library? Sign the petition. | TeleRead ...
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ... copy of a ...
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