Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Self-publishing, cell phones and startups

Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Self-publishing, cell phones and startups
paidContent.org
Among the digital trends at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year: Startups selling ebooks, self-publishing developments, and an emphasis on mobile phones as the ebookrevolution goes global. ... It acquired French digital software company Aquafadas and...

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Book Review: Tom Wolfe's 'Back to Blood'
New York Daily News
So “Back to Blood” brings us to the door of the notoriously inflated — both in price and prominence — Art Basel in Miami Beach. At the famous fair, domestic billionaires chop-block Russian oligarchs for first access to pornography etched in glass ...

New York Daily News

Kindle eBook Refunds: Amazon Says Users Are Entitled To Their Money Back
Huffington Post
If the court approves the settlements, the publishers will pay for e-book refunds that will be applied automatically to the Amazon.com accounts of eligible customers. Customers can use the refunds to purchase Kindle books or print books or request a ...

On books: LIFE's Bond issue does justice to the character, creator
Anderson Independent Mail
"Roger Moore's Bond would have driven the author crazy. His obvious affection for ... There's no such box with the "Casino Royale" version with Daniel Craig, but it was the first Bond movie in years to take more than the title of a Fleming book. I ...

Birmingham author featured among new Southern writers at Barnes & Noble ...
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
It was a long journey from Shine's personal writings to a published book, one that included an unsatisfying former bank job and a challenge of taking care of an ill father. Shine wrote the first draft of his book during downtime at his former job, time ...

The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)

Book review: Jacobson charms for third time with 'Twitterpated'
Deseret News
“Twitterpated” — which has nothing whatsoever to do with the social media site Twitter — is a frothy book perfect for any starry-eyed romantic in search of a clean love story. Jessie Taylor is a successful accountant and member of The Church of Jesus ...

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Weedsport library basing series on three war books
Auburn Citizen
Journalist Nancy E. Lynch, author and publisher of the award-winning social history compilation "Vietnam Mailbag, Voices From the War: 1968-1972," will discuss and read war letters from herbook. After her talk at the library, 2795 E. Brutus St ...

Gadgeteer book club – Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Gadgeteer
Since buying the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite ebook reader (review coming soon), I've been toying with the idea of starting a Gadgeteer book club. ... When I do make time, I have trouble finding books that excite me enough to drag me into the story.

The Gadgeteer

Book review: Triumph & tragedy
Columbus Dispatch
In March 2009, he published a long piece in The New Yorker about Wallace's suicide the previous fall and the author's inability to finish The Pale King, the novel he was working on at the time of his death. “It was 10,000 words, an immensity,” Max said ...

Columbus Dispatch

Chinese book prize winner hits out at East and West
Deutsche Welle
The 54-year-old is also the author of "The Corpse Walker," which describes the lives of ordinary Chinese people, including a grave robber and a deluded peasant who imagines himself to be an emperor. Gottfried Honnefelder, the president of the German ...

Deutsche Welle

Which Packs More Anti-Poverty Punch: Books or Food?
Huffington Post (blog)
If you set out to help eradicate poverty, what would be your weapon of choice: more access to books or food? Raju Agarwal pondered what his arsenal could carry after traveling a couple of times to India, where emaciated bodies filled the railway platforms.

Discrete EBooks Have Unlocked A Huge Erotic Fiction Market
Business Insider
The books were unashamedly on display in the bustling corridors of the Frankfurt BookFair, the world's biggest publishing event due to close Sunday, and are enjoying a boost thanks to the advent of the electronic book. The erotic book is "an ideal ...

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David Byrne on how music works (book review)
CNET
Byrne is still a vital creative force, recording new music, performing, and writing books. He's worked with ... Byrne's new book, "How Music Works" reads more like an autobiography than a how-to make it in the music business tome. Byrne is hyper-aware ...

Author Christie AC Gucker of Hillsborough debuts first novel
NJ.com
Author Christie A.C. Gucker, a New Jersey native, in conjunction with Pagan Writers Press, has debuted her first novel, “The Cliff.” “The Cliff” is a fictional presentation of three characters whose lives are intertwined by fate and affected by ...

Signed book makes its way back to Norman
Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Tim and Georjana Mauldin's family copy of First Lady Michelle Obama's new book, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” finally arrived in Norman this past week after a cross-country ...

Embraceable rhapsody: Feinstein on the Gershwins
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The main problem is that it's really several books in one, as indicated in the official bibliographic description as "biography and autobiography." It is both of those, along with digressions that expound the author's (quite interesting) views on ...

Author speaks at Union College
Suburban News
On Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, Craig McManus, the author of The Ghosts of Cape May and 400 Years of the Ghosts of Cape May and renowned ghost investigator will present, “So You Think You Have a Ghost?” at 2 p.m. in the Roy Smith Theater on the College's ...

Shimer College celebrates banned books
Examiner.com
She described how the books' removal from school ibraries has been answered by a movement of "book traffickers," who have delivered more than 1,000 books for underground libraries. Alum Byron Keys read an excerpt from Richard Wright's Black Boy, ...

Author Robin Murphy's paranormal mystery includes themes of friendship ...
The Herald-Mail
Genre: Paranormal Mystery Publisher: Self-published. Price: $12.95. Synopsis of book: Dr. Marie Bartek struggles to gain control over the new psychic abilities she experiences while attending a veterinarian conference in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Libel trial to focus on Britney Spears' meltdown
Boston.com
Former Spears confidante Sam Lutfi is seeking millions of dollars from Spears and her family, claiming her mother's book lied about him drugging and isolating the pop superstar. He is also seeking a portion of the singer's profits, claiming he was a ...

Frankfurt book fair studies classroom of future
Ahram Online
But children, who are one of the central themes of the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, paradoxically tend to be more savvy at handling the devices and are sometimes viewed as intuitively digital. The fair, which attracts publishers, authors, translators ...

'Duck Dynasty' book arrives in time for season two
Monroe News Star
The book was first published as an e-book but is now available in paperbook. Michael Allen Zell ...Pelican Publishing has released several new children's books this fall. Dianne de Las ... Author Rick Bragg will be the guest speaker at the Friends of ...

Book a hotel or rent an apartment in New York?
Boston Globe
Globe Staff. October 14, 2012. Article · Comments · Subscribe. The author's son, Ben, happened onto a street performer and into the act in. DOUG MOST/GLOBE STAFF. The author's son, Ben, happened onto a street performer and into the act in Central Park.

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BOOK REVIEW: Horror history 'Reel Terror' needs a sharper bite
Rapid City Journal
For a book that claims to span a century, Konow gives short shrift to the first five decades or so. Significant 1930s films like "Freaks" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" are all but ignored. The frights of the atomic age ("Godzilla") and the space age ...

Book project gathers momentum
Timaru Herald
He hopes the book will act as a valuable resource and this week will start delivering thebooks to schools, with two businesses alone stumping up with over 300 copies, on top of the 80 donated so far by individuals. Local schools have requested around ...

Timaru Herald

Author to deliver 'One Book' keynote at NU
Evanston Now
As author of “Never a City So Real” -- this year's One Book One Northwestern selection -- Alex Kotlowitz will present some of his award-winning radio and film work when he delivers the One Book One Northwestern keynote address on Wednesday, Oct. 17, ...

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Daily Kos: Book review: Chuck Thompson's 'Better Off Without 'Em: A ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Susan Gardner)
But there appears to be more to the author's intention than that. On some level, it's clear he wants us to take seriously the notion of parting of the ways between the two incompatible parts of the country. He amasses data, and somewhere in ...
Daily Kos

Daily Kos: My book is No. 1 on B&N's Nook bestseller list
By rss@dailykos.com (teresahill)
They also did a really mean rights grab to claim ownership of books contracted before there was such a thing as an e-book -- something we're fighting them on right now in a class-action lawsuit. So these books are Indie ... Just pitched the book to her, after hearing about the promo from the Indie author who got the first slot, and the B&N employee picked mine for a slot this October. So what you're seeing, me at .... Publish it from the queue to make it appear. You must be a member of a ...
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Readers hot for erotic books in Frankfurt - The Local
Flush with the success of "Fifty Shades of Grey," erotic literature is increasingly finding ardent fans among women seduced by the discretion afforded by ebooks, publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair say. ... The 2011 erotic novel by British author E.L. James was the first part of a trilogy about a relationship between a college graduate and a young business magnate and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Since "Fifty Shades of Grey" started to top the bestseller lists, ebook ...
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Book Shelves #42, 10.14.2012 | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
Sam Kimball's book The Infanticidal Logic of Evolution and Culture still maintains an important place in the way I approach analyzing any kind of storytelling. Love the cover of this first American edition of Foucault's Madness and Civilization, ...
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Kindle Users to Get Refunds, Lower Prices on E-Books After ...
By Arik Hesseldahl
Buy a lot of e-books? Thank your state attorney general for the credit you'll get next year. ...Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster have settled an antitrust lawsuit about e-bookprices. Under the proposed settlements, the publishers ...
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Book Review: Migrants and Their Money: Surviving financial ...
By Blog Admin
Throughout the book the author rightly emphasises the need to look at financial service needs and practices “in the round”, i.e. within the context of complex social networks and relationships. Such an approach illustrates the great diversity ...
British Politics and Policy at LSE

Book Review…Rethinking Gandhi : Kaieteur News
By KNews
His research is exhaustive, and by the end of this bildungsroman, the reader encounters a far more human and fallible figure – far removed from the lionized, monumental image projected in hagiographic films and books. The author sensibly ...
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“Into the Fire” by Dakota Meyer; a book review - This Ain't Hell
By Jonn Lilyea
It was definitely a change of pace from all of the SEAL books which have permeated my reading list recently, but I came away with even more anger at Big Army than I had before, even though I thought that was not possible. Most of the book is ...
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Books I Would NOT Recommend! (8 books)
8 books based on 1 votes: The Unborn by David Shobin, Inhuman by John Russo, The ... Goodreads:Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ...
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Amazon Author Rank: Putting on Clean Underwear Before You ...
Because Amazon is the true evil, they provide multiple subcategories for one's Author Rank. For example, in “Literature and Fiction” for physical books, I am ...
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