Following the heels of Google and Facebook, Yahoo today published its first transparency report detailing government requests for user data in the first half of the year. It intends to issue a transparency report every six months. Of the 17 countries highlighted, the U.S. leads with the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' Jesmyn Ward writes about her upbringing in a poor Mississippi family and the violent, early deaths of five young men who were close to her.Jesmyn Ward's heart-wrenching new memoir, "Men We Reaped," is a brilliant book about beauty and death. The beauty is in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whether for movies, music, or magazines, the all–access model has proven it's here to stay. Now, what Spotify has done for music and Netflix has done for movies, a startup called Oyster is trying to do for that most analog of relics: the book. The basic premise of Oyster's invite–only iPhone... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harold and Sandra Darling founded Green Tiger Press in 1969 as a greeting card company whose products featured their collection of images from vintage pre-1940 children’s books, calendars, paintings, and posters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
For 35 years FSG's Roger Straus would swagger into the Frankfurt Book Fair acquiring the works of the most famous authors in the world, leaving an inimitable legacy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sherman Alexie is encouraging authors to spend a day working in a bookstore handselling their own books, but some authors already feel overstretched. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our “Cut to the Core” columnists talk with the new ALA president, Barbara Stripling, about the library’s role in supporting the Common Core State Standards—and what’s needed from publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Netflix did it with movies. Spotify did it with music. And now a New York start-up hopes to do the same with ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Editors Note: When we first signed up the great Nancy Pearl to helm the “Check It Out” library column for Publishers Weekly, she agreed to do it for a year—and then she gave us two great years! Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gris Grimly punks up the 'Frankenstein' crew in his illustrated book, while Alison Croggon modernizes 'Wuthering Heights' in her YA novel 'Black Spring.'Those thoroughly satiated with beach days and summer blonds can seek refuge of a darker sort in two new novels for young adults in which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children's Books has bought two novels from debut author Carla Spradbery, acquiring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A US federal judge has forbidden Apple from enforcing most favoured nation clauses in its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following in the footsteps of Facebook -- which revealed its first Global Government Requests Report just a few weeks ago -- Yahoo is finishing out the week by publishing data of its own. The firm's first "global law enforcement transparency report" covers governmental requests for user data... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alexie, author of books including 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,' wrote a letter urging his fellow writers to handsell their books on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. 'The most important thing is that we’ll all be helping Independent bookstores, and God knows they’ve helped us... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown senior editor Rowan Cope has bought a debut by US journalist and blogger Emily... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since the Penguin–Random House merger was announced, Markus Dohle, CEO of the new company, has promised that the integration of the two publishers would be handled carefully and deliberately. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Premium content that attracts a highly-targeted audience can maintain its value in spite of raw volume. That’s why instituting a paywall—and likely decreasing your online readership, but increasing revenues from readers—doesn’t have to affect your display advertising sales. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Carlton Books is to publish a book chronology of Bruce Springsteen’s 17 studio albums to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The federal judge presiding over the U.S. electronic books case against Apple has barred the company from striking deals that would ensure that it could undercut prices of other retailers in the ebook market.(macworld.com) Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The all-you-can-eat Netflix model of media consumption is now available for ebooks.Oyster, a year-old Flatiron-district startup with $3 million in backing, launched its iPhone e-reading application and subscription service on Thursday. For now, the service is only available by invitation (users... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]