Reuters
"For a period of two years, the four publishers will not restrict, limit or impede e-book retailers' ability to set, alter or reduce retail prices for e-books and/or to offer discounts or promotions," the Commission said in its Official Journal. It ...
Apple, publishers propose settlement in Europe e-book antitrust case
ZDNet (blog)
"The same key terms, including in particular the MFN clause, in the agency agreements with Apple meant that, to avoid lower revenues and margins for their e-books on the iBookstore, the publishers had to pressure other major e-book retailers offering ...
ZDNet (blog)
Cutting-edge book fair turning a page
Miami Today - The Miami Book Fair International - Nov. 11-18 on the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College: "It's perceived in the business as one of the big national book fairs," said Johnny Temple, founder and publisher of New York-based Akashic Books. "It's definitely one of the two best, along with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — with Brooklyn ... www.miamibookfair.com
Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
The Associated Press
He loves "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool" among others and says Leonard's books have "incredible dialogue" and "incredible structure." "You read page after page and there's no sense of false quantities, in the sense of repetition," Amis said, noting that ...
The Associated Press
Media Chiefs Form Venture to E-Publish
New York Times
It will publish e-books and eventually physical books in a partnership with Atavist, a publisher based in Brooklyn with expertise in producing electronic books and articles. The alliance creates a new competitor in the rapidly changing digital book ...
New York Times
Getting Lit: Brooklyn Book Festival Kicks Off
New York Observer
To kick off the literary festivities prior to the literary Festival, Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry and the Los Angeles Review of Books threw a party. (Book people love parties.) Shindigger, being notionally bookish ourselves, followed ...
Aptara Survey Finds 40% of Trade Houses with E-book Sales Over 10% of ...
Publishers Weekly
E-book sales accounted for more than 10% of revenue at 36% of publishers that responded to Aptara's fourth annual survey of publishers' e-book operations. According to the survey, conducted in April and cosponsored by PW, 40% of trade houses had ...
Leon Logothetis And First Book Cure Back-to-school Budget Blues With New ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Through First Book, Logothetis committed one book per mile, and, mile by mile over unpredictable terrain, he tallied up books to donate to underprivileged youth. 10,000 brand-new books - one for each mile of the race - will go to Los Angeles County ...
School board fires counselor who wrote racy book
Chicago Tribune
School board members voted tonight to fire a guidance counselor and former girls basketball coach at south suburban Rich Central High School whose racy book about women and relationships angered several parents and school administrators last month.
Macy Gray Re-Imagines Stevie Wonder's 'Talking Book'
Billboard
Macy Gray channels Stevie Wonder for her next project, a reinterpretation of the living legend's classic album "Talking Book." The Oct. 30 release of the 429 Records/Savoy Label Group project coincides with the 40th anniversary of the original recording.
Billboard
Total Recall Book Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger Teases Upcoming Memoir
E! Online
Not to be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 movie—or the recent reboot starring Colin Farrell—Total Recall (in stores Oct. 1 from Simon & Schuster) is the former bodybuilder-turned-Hollywood actor-turned-California governor's memoir. Got it?
E! Online
In the UK, e-book sales are up, and (some) book prices are down ...
By Dan Eldridge
As for digital sales of nonfiction e-books, they've raised 128 percent in the UK. Sales of children's e-books, meanwhile, have increased 171 percent. Also yesterday, The Guardian published an interesting piece about the e-book price war ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Vagina by Naomi Wolf covered up by Apple iTunes | Books ...
The title of Naomi Wolf's new book, which explores why the vagina is still thought of as "slightly .....Latest news and views from the Guardian's books team ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../naomi-wolf-vagina-apple-itunes-censo...
More Book News: WRUV Publishes a Book, Vermont Journalist ...
More Book News: WRUV Publishes a Book, Vermont Journalist Profiled in E- Book. State of the Arts. By Pamela Polston [09.19.12]. TAGS: books, state of the arts ...
www.7dvt.com/2012more-book-news-wruv-publishes-book-v...
First adult J.K. Rowling book among fall's offerings - CBS News Video
CBS News video: First adult J.K. Rowling book among fall's offerings ... most highly ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id...utm...
Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
CBS News
In taking home the National Book Foundation's lifetime achievement award, Leonard joins a list of past recipients that includes Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, John Updike, Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe. "These names ...
Ebook Price War Obscures Larger Problem
Forbes
And whilst tight-fisted readers can already find more books than they can read in their entire lifetime, your average reader recognises a deal when they see one, knows that deals don't last, and knows that once the deal is over that prices are going to ...
Forbes
Books: William Seward -- The One Man Hated Even More Than Lincoln
Huffington Post
Anyone who savored author Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team Of Rivals will surely be poised to learn more about William Henry Seward, perhaps the key member of Lincoln's cabinet. Writer Walter Stahr (John Jay: Founding Father) gives ...
'Satanic Verses' author Rushdie dismisses new death threat from religious ...
Orlando Sentinel
"This was essentially one priest in Iran looking for a headline," the author of "The Satanic Verses" said Tuesday night as he spoke at a Barnes & Noble in Union Square before about 400 people, some just children when Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...
'50 Shades' Author Offers Music to Read By
Wall Street Journal
Ms. James, a former television producer who seemed very comfortable in front of the camera, wore a black suit with white trim and a pair of reading glasses pushed up on her head, as if she'd just put down a book and planned to pick it back up ...
Wall Street Journal
'Angelfall' author Susan Ee discusses her hugely popular debut and her ...
Entertainment Weekly
then Susan Ee's Angelfall is the book for you. Don't believe me ... I've had requests to release scenes from Raffe's point of view and it's an interesting possibility that catches my attention, but right now what people really want are the future books ...
'Crazy Love' author Nicola Marsh on being a hybrid
USA TODAY
With the booming e-book market and a range of new publishers, I spent countless hours scouring the Net: Publishers Marketplace, Preditors and Editors, Absolute Write forums, respected blogs, trusty Google, following through on every link. Yeah, it was ...
USA TODAY
Wyclef Jean book explores Fugees breakup
CNN
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Charlie Hebdo, Charb publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
ABC7Chicago.com
Charlie Hebdo, Charb publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Updated at 09:44 AM today. Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for photographers in Paris. ( (AP Photo/Michel ...
ABC7Chicago.com
New 'Hobbit' Trailer Offers Closer Look at the Book's Magical Beasts
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Christopher John Farley. Before we talk about the new trailer for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” that just hit the web, I have a confession. I recently made a bargain with my ten-year-old son: if he finished reading J.R.R. Tolkien's book “The ...
'Most Wanted' author to speak at Somerville Public Library Sept. 19
Boston.com
Join us in welcoming author Col. Thomas J. Foley who will discuss his new book, "Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected" (Touchstone Books). 174806443.JPG. June 23, 2011. The news of the notorious ...
Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers' Questions
Huffington Post
Max Lucado. (RNS) Prolific author Max Lucado talked to Religion News Service about grace, the topic of his 29th book, and answered a range of questions from people who follow RNS on Twitter. Lucado, 57, is the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church, ...
E-books could become the norm for children as sales soar
Telegraph.co.uk
Francesca Dow, managing director of children's books at Penguin, said that the group is seeing a “big jump” in e-book sales for children, many of whom are being given their own Kindles by their parents. Recent advances in technology to allow "flowable ...
Telegraph.co.uk
With a new book to show for a summer of work and reflection, Oak Park high ...
Chicago Tribune
Tavi Gevinson, for whom we will all work one day, was walking home from school, books pressed to her chest, skirt swishing. It was a portrait of suburban idyll, the first day of class at Oak Park and ...Plus, in a way, she hadn't had a summer: She ...
'The Nine' author Toobin has new SCOTUS book
Huffington Post
Publishers are billing Jeffrey Toobin's latest book as the chronicle of a showdown between the White House and the Supreme Court. ... In reality, though, Toobin's latest work, "The Oath," reads more like an update to his best-selling 2007 book, "The Nine.
Israel's ultra-Orthodox community confronts child sex abuse with new book
NBCNews.com (blog)
Now, for the first time, a book published in Hebrew tackles the growing problem of sexual abuse among children in the ultra-religious community, trying to break the silence in the closed community. Paul Goldman / NBC News. The cover of Ella Bargai's ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
Wyclef Comes Clean About Life, Love, and yes--Lauryn too, In New Book
The Source (blog)
And then the Fugees gonna break up… If you've ever wondered what really happened between Wyclef and Lauryn Hill and what happened to the Fugees, wonder no more. In his new book, out this week, “Purpose: An Immigrant's Story,” Wyclef Jean has ...
The Source (blog)
BOOK REVIEW: 'Shadowbosses'
Washington Times
Mallory and Elizabeth Factor have written an important and powerful new book, “Shadowbosses,” that explains the symbiotic relationship between the modern Democratic Party and today's labor unions. One is not possible without the other. Democratic ...
Washington Times
'The Reluctant Debutante' author Beck Lower draws inspiration from past
USA TODAY
I cut my teeth on Bonanza and the Little House on the Prairie books; I have the entire Zane Grey Western collection (some first editions!); I followed the route of the Santa Fe Trail on my one and only cross-country road trip, although I went ...
USA TODAY
Steve Stern returns to Memphis with 'The Book of Mischief'
Memphis Commercial Appeal (blog)
A New York Times review of Steve Stern's 1987 story collection "Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven" described the author as "a prodigiously talented writer from Memphis, who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." mischief.jpeg ...
Memphis Commercial Appeal (blog)
Are Books Doomed? The Rise of the e-Reader [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sam Laird
According to the infographic below, people who own e-book devices say they read more than people who don't, at a rate of 24 books per year to 15. Education, escape, relaxation and entertainment rank as people's main motivations to plow ...
Mashable » Tech
Apple, 4 publishers reach ebook pricing agreement with European ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Last December, the European Commission began investigating Apple and five book publishers for allegedly conspiring to set ebook prices. Now the EC, Apple ... The EC also calls attention to most-favored nation clauses (MFNs) in Apple's Agency agreements: “to avoid lower revenues and margins for their ebooks on the iBookstore, the publishers had to pressure other major e-book retailers offering ebooks to their consumers in the EEA to adopt the agency model.” The Commission ...
Europe
Freakonomics » The End of Men Author Will Soon Take Your ...
By Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics reader Alan T. recently suggested that when we run an author Q&A on the blog that we announce it beforehand so that readers have time to check out the book first. Good idea, Alan! We will soon be running a Q&A with Hanna ...
Freakonomics
Book trailer for "This Machine Kills Secrets," about Wikileaks - Boing ...
By Cory Doctorow
Here's the video trailer for my new book "This Machine Kills Secrets" about the history and future of anonymous information leaks. The book, which started when I interviewed Julian Assange in London two years ago, aims to trace how the ...
Boing Boing
Book News: Writing Live, Literary Skivvies : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
Book News: Writing Live, Literary Skivvies. Posted by Andrea DenHoed. book-news_opt.jpg. An unpublished essay by Agatha Christie, in which she says Poirot “is often somewhat of an embarrassment to me,” finally comes to light. “The fact is ...
Culture Desk
Two Out-of-Print Nora Ephron Books to Be Published as Single ...
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Two out-of-print books by Nora Ephron will be reissued on Oct. 16 in a single-volume paperback ande-book edition, the publisher, Vintage Books, said on Wednesday. “Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women” and “Scribble, Scribble: Notes ...
Media Decoder
FAIL – Prominent Pirate Party Politician Goes After Book Pirates ...
By Ernesto
Dropbox removed a copy of Schramm's book after it received a DMCA take-down request today and another copy hosted on the Pirate Party's own site also vanished into thin air. ... Yesterday, when Schramm's book “Click Me: Confessions of an Internet exhibitionist” was released both on paper and as an e-book, the tide started to turn. To help her publish the book Schramm signed a major deal with the Random House owned publisher Albrecht Knaus Verlag. In addition to earning a ...
TorrentFreak
Coffee & Books Brings Digital Indie Book Store Into Coffee Shops ...
By Dianna Dilworth
Hillcrest Media Group has teamed up with Dunn Bros Coffee to create a new website that combines an online bookstore with local coffeehouses called CoffeeandBooks.com. The site is aimed at readers, writers and publishers, and aims to ...
GalleyCat
Book Review & Interview: The Book of Business Awesome ...
By Ashley Zeckman
When I picked up his new book “The Book of Business Awesome & UnAwesome” I was pleased to see that these traits carried over into his writing as well. Scott's new book is very cleverly compiled. If you flip the book one way, you'll find a ...
Online Marketing Blog
Canadian students asked to buy $180 art book with no pictures of art ...
By Ariel Bogle
Graeme McNaughton in Canada's National Post talked with Kathy Shailer, dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, who said the bookwas meant to save students money. “It would ...
Melville House Books
Cannelle et Vanille: Small Plates and Sweet Treats Book Trailer
By Cannelle Et Vanille
Nearly six months ago, we traveled to Vermont to film the trailer for "Small Plates and Sweet Treats" - my book. I wanted this trailer to reflect my cooking, my love of nature, and the healthful dishes and beauty I seek in everyday life. I knew from ...
Cannelle et Vanille
Biografías VI, Sculpture of Hundreds of Books Cascading out of ...
By EDW Lynch
“Biografías VI” by Spanish artist Alicia Martin is a fantastic sculpture of hundreds of books pouring out of a second story window of the Museum Meermanno in The Hague. It is on display through November 25 as part of the 2012 International ...
Laughing Squid
App Store - Kobo
See what books your friends are reading and find your next great read • Discover your book's pulse – see who's reading the book and share ideas & comments ...
itunes.apple.com/us/app/kobo/id301259483?mt=8
Guardian children's books podcast: Jacqueline Wilson on Four ...
Guardian children's books podcast: Jacqueline Wilson on Four Children and It. Jacqueline ... Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book ... Read reviews of piratical books, find out the Vampirates author's faves and share your own ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../jacqueline-wilson-four-children-podca...
Miami Today - The Miami Book Fair International - Nov. 11-18 on the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College: "It's perceived in the business as one of the big national book fairs," said Johnny Temple, founder and publisher of New York-based Akashic Books. "It's definitely one of the two best, along with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — with Brooklyn ... www.miamibookfair.com
Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
The Associated Press
He loves "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool" among others and says Leonard's books have "incredible dialogue" and "incredible structure." "You read page after page and there's no sense of false quantities, in the sense of repetition," Amis said, noting that ...
The Associated Press
Media Chiefs Form Venture to E-Publish
New York Times
It will publish e-books and eventually physical books in a partnership with Atavist, a publisher based in Brooklyn with expertise in producing electronic books and articles. The alliance creates a new competitor in the rapidly changing digital book ...
New York Times
Getting Lit: Brooklyn Book Festival Kicks Off
New York Observer
To kick off the literary festivities prior to the literary Festival, Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry and the Los Angeles Review of Books threw a party. (Book people love parties.) Shindigger, being notionally bookish ourselves, followed ...
Aptara Survey Finds 40% of Trade Houses with E-book Sales Over 10% of ...
Publishers Weekly
E-book sales accounted for more than 10% of revenue at 36% of publishers that responded to Aptara's fourth annual survey of publishers' e-book operations. According to the survey, conducted in April and cosponsored by PW, 40% of trade houses had ...
Leon Logothetis And First Book Cure Back-to-school Budget Blues With New ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Through First Book, Logothetis committed one book per mile, and, mile by mile over unpredictable terrain, he tallied up books to donate to underprivileged youth. 10,000 brand-new books - one for each mile of the race - will go to Los Angeles County ...
School board fires counselor who wrote racy book
Chicago Tribune
School board members voted tonight to fire a guidance counselor and former girls basketball coach at south suburban Rich Central High School whose racy book about women and relationships angered several parents and school administrators last month.
Macy Gray Re-Imagines Stevie Wonder's 'Talking Book'
Billboard
Macy Gray channels Stevie Wonder for her next project, a reinterpretation of the living legend's classic album "Talking Book." The Oct. 30 release of the 429 Records/Savoy Label Group project coincides with the 40th anniversary of the original recording.
Billboard
Total Recall Book Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger Teases Upcoming Memoir
E! Online
Not to be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 movie—or the recent reboot starring Colin Farrell—Total Recall (in stores Oct. 1 from Simon & Schuster) is the former bodybuilder-turned-Hollywood actor-turned-California governor's memoir. Got it?
E! Online
In the UK, e-book sales are up, and (some) book prices are down ...
By Dan Eldridge
As for digital sales of nonfiction e-books, they've raised 128 percent in the UK. Sales of children's e-books, meanwhile, have increased 171 percent. Also yesterday, The Guardian published an interesting piece about the e-book price war ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Vagina by Naomi Wolf covered up by Apple iTunes | Books ...
The title of Naomi Wolf's new book, which explores why the vagina is still thought of as "slightly .....Latest news and views from the Guardian's books team ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../naomi-wolf-vagina-apple-itunes-censo...
More Book News: WRUV Publishes a Book, Vermont Journalist ...
More Book News: WRUV Publishes a Book, Vermont Journalist Profiled in E- Book. State of the Arts. By Pamela Polston [09.19.12]. TAGS: books, state of the arts ...
www.7dvt.com/2012more-book-news-wruv-publishes-book-v...
CBS News video: First adult J.K. Rowling book among fall's offerings ... most highly ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id...utm...
Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
CBS News
In taking home the National Book Foundation's lifetime achievement award, Leonard joins a list of past recipients that includes Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, John Updike, Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe. "These names ...
Ebook Price War Obscures Larger Problem
Forbes
And whilst tight-fisted readers can already find more books than they can read in their entire lifetime, your average reader recognises a deal when they see one, knows that deals don't last, and knows that once the deal is over that prices are going to ...
Forbes
Books: William Seward -- The One Man Hated Even More Than Lincoln
Huffington Post
Anyone who savored author Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team Of Rivals will surely be poised to learn more about William Henry Seward, perhaps the key member of Lincoln's cabinet. Writer Walter Stahr (John Jay: Founding Father) gives ...
'Satanic Verses' author Rushdie dismisses new death threat from religious ...
Orlando Sentinel
"This was essentially one priest in Iran looking for a headline," the author of "The Satanic Verses" said Tuesday night as he spoke at a Barnes & Noble in Union Square before about 400 people, some just children when Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...
'50 Shades' Author Offers Music to Read By
Wall Street Journal
Ms. James, a former television producer who seemed very comfortable in front of the camera, wore a black suit with white trim and a pair of reading glasses pushed up on her head, as if she'd just put down a book and planned to pick it back up ...
Wall Street Journal
'Angelfall' author Susan Ee discusses her hugely popular debut and her ...
Entertainment Weekly
then Susan Ee's Angelfall is the book for you. Don't believe me ... I've had requests to release scenes from Raffe's point of view and it's an interesting possibility that catches my attention, but right now what people really want are the future books ...
'Crazy Love' author Nicola Marsh on being a hybrid
USA TODAY
With the booming e-book market and a range of new publishers, I spent countless hours scouring the Net: Publishers Marketplace, Preditors and Editors, Absolute Write forums, respected blogs, trusty Google, following through on every link. Yeah, it was ...
USA TODAY
Wyclef Jean book explores Fugees breakup
CNN
Wyclef Jean book explores Fugees breakup. CNN. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading... 39,045 videos. Loading... Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. Alert icon. Close. Upgrade to the latest Flash ...
Charlie Hebdo, Charb publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
ABC7Chicago.com
Charlie Hebdo, Charb publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Updated at 09:44 AM today. Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for photographers in Paris. ( (AP Photo/Michel ...
ABC7Chicago.com
New 'Hobbit' Trailer Offers Closer Look at the Book's Magical Beasts
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Christopher John Farley. Before we talk about the new trailer for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” that just hit the web, I have a confession. I recently made a bargain with my ten-year-old son: if he finished reading J.R.R. Tolkien's book “The ...
'Most Wanted' author to speak at Somerville Public Library Sept. 19
Boston.com
Join us in welcoming author Col. Thomas J. Foley who will discuss his new book, "Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected" (Touchstone Books). 174806443.JPG. June 23, 2011. The news of the notorious ...
Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers' Questions
Huffington Post
Max Lucado. (RNS) Prolific author Max Lucado talked to Religion News Service about grace, the topic of his 29th book, and answered a range of questions from people who follow RNS on Twitter. Lucado, 57, is the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church, ...
E-books could become the norm for children as sales soar
Telegraph.co.uk
Francesca Dow, managing director of children's books at Penguin, said that the group is seeing a “big jump” in e-book sales for children, many of whom are being given their own Kindles by their parents. Recent advances in technology to allow "flowable ...
Telegraph.co.uk
With a new book to show for a summer of work and reflection, Oak Park high ...
Chicago Tribune
Tavi Gevinson, for whom we will all work one day, was walking home from school, books pressed to her chest, skirt swishing. It was a portrait of suburban idyll, the first day of class at Oak Park and ...Plus, in a way, she hadn't had a summer: She ...
'The Nine' author Toobin has new SCOTUS book
Huffington Post
Publishers are billing Jeffrey Toobin's latest book as the chronicle of a showdown between the White House and the Supreme Court. ... In reality, though, Toobin's latest work, "The Oath," reads more like an update to his best-selling 2007 book, "The Nine.
Israel's ultra-Orthodox community confronts child sex abuse with new book
NBCNews.com (blog)
Now, for the first time, a book published in Hebrew tackles the growing problem of sexual abuse among children in the ultra-religious community, trying to break the silence in the closed community. Paul Goldman / NBC News. The cover of Ella Bargai's ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
Wyclef Comes Clean About Life, Love, and yes--Lauryn too, In New Book
The Source (blog)
And then the Fugees gonna break up… If you've ever wondered what really happened between Wyclef and Lauryn Hill and what happened to the Fugees, wonder no more. In his new book, out this week, “Purpose: An Immigrant's Story,” Wyclef Jean has ...
The Source (blog)
BOOK REVIEW: 'Shadowbosses'
Washington Times
Mallory and Elizabeth Factor have written an important and powerful new book, “Shadowbosses,” that explains the symbiotic relationship between the modern Democratic Party and today's labor unions. One is not possible without the other. Democratic ...
Washington Times
'The Reluctant Debutante' author Beck Lower draws inspiration from past
USA TODAY
I cut my teeth on Bonanza and the Little House on the Prairie books; I have the entire Zane Grey Western collection (some first editions!); I followed the route of the Santa Fe Trail on my one and only cross-country road trip, although I went ...
USA TODAY
Steve Stern returns to Memphis with 'The Book of Mischief'
Memphis Commercial Appeal (blog)
A New York Times review of Steve Stern's 1987 story collection "Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven" described the author as "a prodigiously talented writer from Memphis, who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." mischief.jpeg ...
Memphis Commercial Appeal (blog)
Are Books Doomed? The Rise of the e-Reader [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sam Laird
According to the infographic below, people who own e-book devices say they read more than people who don't, at a rate of 24 books per year to 15. Education, escape, relaxation and entertainment rank as people's main motivations to plow ...
Mashable » Tech
Apple, 4 publishers reach ebook pricing agreement with European ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Last December, the European Commission began investigating Apple and five book publishers for allegedly conspiring to set ebook prices. Now the EC, Apple ... The EC also calls attention to most-favored nation clauses (MFNs) in Apple's Agency agreements: “to avoid lower revenues and margins for their ebooks on the iBookstore, the publishers had to pressure other major e-book retailers offering ebooks to their consumers in the EEA to adopt the agency model.” The Commission ...
Europe
Freakonomics » The End of Men Author Will Soon Take Your ...
By Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics reader Alan T. recently suggested that when we run an author Q&A on the blog that we announce it beforehand so that readers have time to check out the book first. Good idea, Alan! We will soon be running a Q&A with Hanna ...
Freakonomics
Book trailer for "This Machine Kills Secrets," about Wikileaks - Boing ...
By Cory Doctorow
Here's the video trailer for my new book "This Machine Kills Secrets" about the history and future of anonymous information leaks. The book, which started when I interviewed Julian Assange in London two years ago, aims to trace how the ...
Boing Boing
Book News: Writing Live, Literary Skivvies : The New Yorker
By Andrea DenHoed
Book News: Writing Live, Literary Skivvies. Posted by Andrea DenHoed. book-news_opt.jpg. An unpublished essay by Agatha Christie, in which she says Poirot “is often somewhat of an embarrassment to me,” finally comes to light. “The fact is ...
Culture Desk
Two Out-of-Print Nora Ephron Books to Be Published as Single ...
By By JULIE BOSMAN
Two out-of-print books by Nora Ephron will be reissued on Oct. 16 in a single-volume paperback ande-book edition, the publisher, Vintage Books, said on Wednesday. “Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women” and “Scribble, Scribble: Notes ...
Media Decoder
FAIL – Prominent Pirate Party Politician Goes After Book Pirates ...
By Ernesto
Dropbox removed a copy of Schramm's book after it received a DMCA take-down request today and another copy hosted on the Pirate Party's own site also vanished into thin air. ... Yesterday, when Schramm's book “Click Me: Confessions of an Internet exhibitionist” was released both on paper and as an e-book, the tide started to turn. To help her publish the book Schramm signed a major deal with the Random House owned publisher Albrecht Knaus Verlag. In addition to earning a ...
TorrentFreak
Coffee & Books Brings Digital Indie Book Store Into Coffee Shops ...
By Dianna Dilworth
Hillcrest Media Group has teamed up with Dunn Bros Coffee to create a new website that combines an online bookstore with local coffeehouses called CoffeeandBooks.com. The site is aimed at readers, writers and publishers, and aims to ...
GalleyCat
Book Review & Interview: The Book of Business Awesome ...
By Ashley Zeckman
When I picked up his new book “The Book of Business Awesome & UnAwesome” I was pleased to see that these traits carried over into his writing as well. Scott's new book is very cleverly compiled. If you flip the book one way, you'll find a ...
Online Marketing Blog
Canadian students asked to buy $180 art book with no pictures of art ...
By Ariel Bogle
Graeme McNaughton in Canada's National Post talked with Kathy Shailer, dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, who said the bookwas meant to save students money. “It would ...
Melville House Books
Cannelle et Vanille: Small Plates and Sweet Treats Book Trailer
By Cannelle Et Vanille
Nearly six months ago, we traveled to Vermont to film the trailer for "Small Plates and Sweet Treats" - my book. I wanted this trailer to reflect my cooking, my love of nature, and the healthful dishes and beauty I seek in everyday life. I knew from ...
Cannelle et Vanille
Biografías VI, Sculpture of Hundreds of Books Cascading out of ...
By EDW Lynch
“Biografías VI” by Spanish artist Alicia Martin is a fantastic sculpture of hundreds of books pouring out of a second story window of the Museum Meermanno in The Hague. It is on display through November 25 as part of the 2012 International ...
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Guardian children's books podcast: Jacqueline Wilson on Four ...
Guardian children's books podcast: Jacqueline Wilson on Four Children and It. Jacqueline ... Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book ... Read reviews of piratical books, find out the Vampirates author's faves and share your own ...
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READER BOOK PLUG: Reader David Butler writes: ... of publishing, and in fact Amazon is apparently launching the option with books by Charles Dickens.
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READER BOOK PLUG: Reader David Butler writes: ... of publishing, and in fact Amazon is apparently launching the option with books by Charles Dickens.
pjmedia.com/instapundit/151039/
Follow @jmichaelpoole
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