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Pad & Quill's Moleskine-Style Case Is a 'Little Black Book' for Your iPhone

If you'd like to combine your new iPhone and your wallet into a single device that looks like an old-fashioned mini datebook, Pad & Quill's Little Pocket Book is the case you want.     Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coe longlisted for William Hill

Lord Sebastian Coe has been longlisted for the £25,000 William Hill Sports Book of the Year... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Memoir-based '12 Years a Slave' is getting major Oscar buzz

'12 Years a Slave,' which screened at the Toronto Film Festival, is already being discussed as an Oscar Best Picture frontrunner. The movie arrives in theaters Oct. 18. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sainsbury's launches 99p ebook promotion

Sainsbury’s has launched a month-long promotion offering ebooks for 99p each. The... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Symmons Roberts wins Forward Best Collection

Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection (£10,000) for his... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading

The real problem with ebooks is that they're more 'e' than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone can and can't do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing. The collusion in pricing has been a public issue for a while, but we need to talk... Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Government Social Feeds Go Quiet on First Day of Shutdown

While invective about the state of American democracy has reached a fever pitch on social media, several government feeds themselves have gone quiet on the first day of the federal shutdown.Agencies including FEMA, the National Park Service and NASA have stated on their Facebook, Twitter and... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Justice Department opposes company requests to publish surveillance statistics

The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed requests by Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other companies to publish the number of surveillance requests they receive from the National Security Agency and other agencies. Requests from five Internet companies, also including Yahoo and LinkedIn,... Continue reading at 'PC World'

[ PC World | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers, AOL Partner on Subscription Service

Publishers have partnered with AOL on a new bundled-subscription offering the company rolled out Monday. Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's new mobile ad format keeps users coming back to familiar apps

Ads for mobile apps are frequently ineffective after the first viewing -- once users install a given app, they rarely have incentives to try the software again. Facebook may have found a way to sustain customers' interest through its new deep linking ad format, however. The approach takes... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Paper now making Books in most obvious business move ever

Paper making a Book? That would follow logic. But the Paper we're referring to here is actually an iPad sketchbook app and the book? Why, that'd be a product of Moleskine. An update released today to Paper's popular app adds a new 'Make a Book' service which allows users to self-publish their... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rachid O Wins Mamounia Literary Award

Amid the splendour of La Mamounia in Marrakesh, one of the world's most historic and beautiful hotels, Rachid O received the fourth annual Prix Littéraire de la Mamounia with Analphabètes (published in France by Editions Gallimard). Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joe Cross diet book to Hodder

Hodder & Stoughton has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in The Reboot... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media to cut journalist jobs

Fairfax Media will shed at least 45 jobs across its publishing units amid continued challenging advertising markets.     Continue reading at 'The Sydney Morning Herald'

[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd, HarperCollins Launch $8.99 Subscription Book Service

For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content: movies, TV shows, music, news, video games. Could that same model soon become popular in the world of publishing? Given the success of Netflix in video and Spotify in music, it's inevitable that... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scribd Challenges Amazon and Apple With 'Netflix for Books'

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books. The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an online subscription service that gives you unlimited access to a large library of digital books for... Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing is Another Victim of Syria’s Civil War

Syria's civil war has decimated the local publishing business, all-but-ending the printing and sale of new books, and forcing many publishers authors to emigrate. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Seamus Heaney collection reissued

Faber is to release a new edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry collection Opened Ground: Poems... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bill O'Reilly's next history book will center on WWII

O'Reilly said his book on World War II will have 'brand-new information about some very, very fascinating things' and should be released in September 2014. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber buys Australian debut

Faber has acquired a debut novel set in medieval England from Australian author Robyn Cadwallader... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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