Art Books and eBooks: A Difficult Conversation? Part 1 (video)

Art Books and eBooks: A Difficult Conversation? Part 1 (video) - Published on Nov 5, 2012
Part 1 of a series of discussions about books, ebooks, and the future of museum publishing.


Amazon poised to win e-book fight with Apple
San Jose Mercury News
BRUSSELS -- European Union regulators are to end an antitrust probe into e-book prices by accepting an offer by Apple (AAPL) and four publishers to ease price restrictions on Amazon, two sources said on Tuesday. The decision hands online retailer ...

Book buzz: The new trend in YA, Han Suyin dies
USA TODAY
Election books for kids: We may have to be 18 to vote, but everyone is involved in the election season, as captured by 4-year-old Abigal Evans' teary fatigue over "Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney." Here are some election-themed books to read to your ...

Local indie stores also decline to sell Amazon books
STLtoday.com (blog)
A story in Monday's New York Times focused on the upcoming Amazon print book "The 4-Hour Chef" by Timothy Ferriss. Ferriss has sold thousands of books with New York publisher Crown. Last year Amazon lured him away with a 7-figure contract, but his ...

Book Review: Gothic: Visual Art of the Middle Ages, 1140-1500 by Bruno Klein ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Joining the stunning volume, Baroque: Theatrum Mundi, The World as Work of Art in H. F. Ulmann's new series of art books, The Collection of Art Epochs, is the equally elegant Gothic: Visual Art of the Middle Ages, 1140-1500. Like Baroque, Gothic adopts ...

AUTHOR'S ADVICE: VOTE
San Jose Mercury News
(Yes, you had to be 21 to vote then)," the author writes. "It makes me crazy when I hear young people say elections have nothing to do with them. I've got news for you if you think this election has nothing to do with your life. It has everything to do ...

Dark lord and shouting tot pick up Roald Dahl prize
Reuters
He added recent and that recent big name fiction like Harry Potter had bolstered interest in fantasybooks and helped foster the book's popularity. The book also shines a light on the bizarre way that people in the real world behave, said Michael Rosen ...

The Obama Vs. Romney Reading List: Book Bag Presidential Election Edition
Daily Beast
As the two candidates face off in the 2012 election, the books they've read recently and their professed favorites also go head to head. Who wins? Note: most titles come from Newsweek's “Obama's Book Club” and Buzzfeed's “Mitt's Reading List”. Print ...

Countdown to Wisconsin Book Festival 2012: An interview with Davy Rothbart
Isthmus Daily Page
The protagonist of all of these stories is Davy Rothbart, author of the new essay collection My Heart Is an Idiot. These real-life ... I chatted with him before his Wisconsin Book Festival appearance, where he'll tell stories and celebrate FOUND's 10th ...

Isthmus Daily Page

Book News: Ancient Electioneering, Political Predictions
New Yorker (blog)
The Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel says that he and President Obama, whom he considers a friend, plan to write a book together. “People ignorant of the real facts of history fill the vacuum with either a fancifully corrupt view or a mythic one.” Oliver ...

New Yorker (blog)

EU regulators to accept Apple and book publishers' offer of cheaper ...
By Mat Smith
The assembled publishers propose that they will allow retailers (including Amazon) to sell e-bookscheaper than Apple currently does. The move will attempt to end the EU's anti-trust investigation that looked into the publishers' e-book pricing ...
Engadget

Betaworks Launches Tapestry, A Way To Author Beautiful ...
By Kim-Mai Cutler
Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street Journal. Before she joined TechCrunch, she led mobile coverage at Inside Network, a six-person media startup that was acquired by ...
TechCrunch

Freakonomics » SuperFreakonomics E-Book on Sale for $3.99
By Freakonomics
HarperCollins is running a sale on the SuperFreakonomics e-book for the next few weeks, offering it via all digital vendors for $3.99. The book's total worldwide sales are > 1 million. Tweet · Facebook · LinkedIn · Tumblr · Stumble · Digg ...
Freakonomics

Happy Mail: 3 Awesome Books - A Beautiful Mess
By elsiecake
Last week I had a very happy mail week, because I got a few new (amazing) books. I had pre-ordered some, and others I had just been meaning to check out for a while. I spent a big part of...
A Beautiful Mess

The Disadvantages Of E-Book - Business Insider
By Dylan Love
E-books also require hardware and that hardware costs money. Best-case scenario, you'll use Amazon's free Kindle app on some device you already have. But reading an e-book on a PC is hardly the point. For a real e-reader, you can shell ...
Business Insider

What's a line or passage from a book that still sticks with you - Reddit
reddit:subreddit: find submissions in "subreddit"; author:username: find submissions ..... Every time I read something from that book I get a little teary eyed. ..... Read all of the Dune books by Frank Herbert but ignore anything by Brian Herbert or ...
www.reddit.com/.../whats_a_line_or_passage_from_a_book_t...

What E-Book Revolution? | TeleRead: News and views on e-books ...
So how does this competent, prolific, once-popular author rate on the great aggregator known as ...As far as Street's fans are concerned, the e-book revolution never happened. ... Munseys is a great source for 40′s pulp fiction in ebook format ... F+W Media Launches E-Book-Only Imprint to PublishOut-of-Print Pulp Novels ...
www.teleread.com/books/what-e-book-revolution/

Best Fairytale Retelling Books for Young Adults (15 books)
15 books based on 1 votes: Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George, Before Midnight: ... Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion ... by Jessica Day George (Goodreads Author) ...
www.goodreads.com/.../27138.Best_Fairytale_Retelling_Book...

Bob Odenkirk publishing a book with David Cross, developing new ...
Perhaps most interesting (or at least the most concrete, relatively speaking) is his plan to publish abook with his old Mr. Show pal David Cross, collecting ...
www.avclub.com/.../bob-odenkirk-publishing-a-book-with-da...

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