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James Patterson’s YA book franchise, which has sold over 30 million copies, is about to go digital. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jordan Ellenberg, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently designed the Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking's book 'A Brief History of Time' (often called 'the most unread book of all time'), to calculate which books are put down the most often. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Al Manhal, the UAE-based Arabic digital education publisher, is now offer paperback editions of its work worldwide via Amazon marketplace. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some 'old guard' authors are joining forces in a letter criticizing Amazon, even as a cluster of self-published authors is rallying around Amazon, charging that traditional publishers like Hachette mistreat authors and readers. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has relaunched its US website, with direct to consumer print and ebook sales. The... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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J K Rowling has written a new piece about a thirty-something Harry Potter and his friends at the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Wattpad, an online writing and reading community, has acquired the Red Room, an online community originally described as a “Facebook for authors.” The site will be subsumed into Wattpad. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nine romance writers are distributing an anthology of short stories, "Naught Nine," through INscribe Digital. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has signed a debut novel from the c.e.o. of The Book People, Seni Glaister. Clare... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador has signed a memoir from US comedian and actress Amy Poehler in a "closely-fought... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The judges have winnowed down 10,000 entries to the top five. Consumers vote on the grand prize winner from today through July 18. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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In a filing with the Second Circuit last week, Google defended its practice of displaying snippets in Google Book Search. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Stay up to date on all the latest news coming out of San Diego Comic Con 2014 with Publishers Weekly—daily updates, podcasts and more. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hoping to counter the glut of show-biz razzle dazzle at Comic-Con in San Diego with some comic book firepower, Image Comics has announced the third Image Expo, an all-Image Comics media day. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eric Ligman, Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager, has released a whole new batch of free ebooks, covering topics such as Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7, Office 2013 and Office 365, Azure, Lync 2013, and SQL Server. There are ebooks and resource guides for all things Microsoft. For the past... Continue reading at 'Betanews'
[ Betanews | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As things stand, Hachette is making ebook discounts impossible, and almost everybody else stands to lose, writes Hugh HoweyNews: New Amazon terms amount to 'assisted suicide' for book industry, experts claimHow much should an ebook cost? And how should that money be split? These two questions... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alejandro Jodorowsky's film 'The Dance of Reality' is based on his unorthodox autobiography; Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham offer imperfectly wise stories and parables Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In pre-Kindle days I once weighed myself down with more than dozen books after spending half a day in Powell's "city of books" in Portland, Oregon.People still enjoy cruising the miles of shelves in that wonderful monument to the era of print. By contrast, readers have been deserting the print... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After I recommended My Struggle to a friend, she texted, “What if a woman wrote it?” I wrote back, “or an American?” and I began to wonder what would happen if the literary sensation were written not by the handsome Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard but by Carla Olivia Krauss of Cobble Hill,... Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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