While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involvedI’ve been working in games for a little more than 15 years, and the main thing I’d say about it at this point is that it’s a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-30 08:00:17 UTC ]
The most read books on Goodreads this week, how to identify credible sources in a time of misinformation, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-08 16:00:00 UTC ]
In an effort to help consumers find and read books that have been banned in their localities, Open Road Integrated Media has started a new marketing service, the Free Voices Geo-Targeting initiative, focusing on 10 states where book banning is most prevalent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Plus: the most read books on Goodreads in July, new cookbooks for the school year, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-08-02 15:00:00 UTC ]
The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’A group of publishers has launched a week-long initiative encouraging people to read books by Palestinian authors and about Palestinian history by offering free... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-29 17:20:38 UTC ]
Reading devices with E-ink displays are an absolute must for hardcore readers. Can you read books using a traditional Android tablet or Apple iPad? Sure, but the screen can cause eyestrain. An E-ink reader, such as Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite, makes reading digital books much more enjoyable --... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2021-08-16 21:49:10 UTC ]
Soft science fiction focuses on the social sciences, is more philosophical in approach, and explores the important social issues of our time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-21 10:36:00 UTC ]
Even amid the chaos, you can find a quiet spot to turn pages. It may require some stealth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-24 11:48:06 UTC ]
Kindle e-readers make it easy to amass and read books. Unfortunately, they don’t make it particularly easy to organize them. There’s no folder structure or tagging system to impose order on large libraries. Instead, Kindle offers Collections, a way of sorting books into logical groupings on... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2020-04-20 10:30:00 UTC ]
These days, everything feels a little bit bleaker than usual. But one thing that genuinely made me smile as I was panic scrolling last week? The clever designs of Read Books, Serve Looks, otherwise known as Thom Stead (Instagram bio: “quarantined gay serving book inspired looks”), who recreates... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-16 16:30:31 UTC ]
Adam Kay’s Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Picador) and Ryan’s Christmas by self-published author L.J. Ross were the most read books since Christmas Day, according to Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-02 10:20:56 UTC ]
While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can: pull characters from the page and commit them to the real world. Sutherland’s fantastical ability is at the center of H.G. Parry’s debut novel The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-25 08:46:30 UTC ]
Books are about people. Reading while you’re around them is a useful reminder of that. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-09-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
First, can we all agree that it should be “lit-fluencer”? Moving on: 1. “Gertrude Stein had time to read books. But do moms?” 2. “Owens’s dinner will be in a decidedly lower key: a gingham tablecloth, uniformed servers passing out pigs in blankets, Zibby’s kids popping in occasionally to whisper... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-17 19:31:52 UTC ]
The pursuit of happiness shouldn’t come at the expense of one’s health and relationships, argues VisumCx founder and CEO. We all want to be happy. You’ve probably watched movies about seeking it, read books on what you need to do to achieve it, and listened to songs about finding it. If you’re... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-06-20 13:00:03 UTC ]
Some of the productivity wisdom we accept may be flat-out wrong. Greater productivity is a workplace holy grail. We study how to better manage our time to get more done. We evaluate what to delegate, as well as the tasks we should skip entirely. We read books and listen to podcasts about how to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
We the ad industry need to move faster.When Apple's iPhone debuted in 2007, few believed it would lead to the disruption and opportunities it has created within mobile and adjacent spaces.Mobile phones went from single-purpose devices to, in some ways, being the operating system for how we go... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women behind Irish independent Tramp Press say they will no longer consider submissions from authors who assume they are men, or list only male influences“Sexists need not apply” to the “dreaded women” who run Tramp Press, say the trail-blazing Irish independent publisher, which has announced it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kids these days apparently want to read books that reflect their lives. So following that whole supply-and-demand thing we all learned in Economics 101, Kirkus is giving the people what they want. They’ve just launched Kirkus Collections, which brings together Young Adult and children’s lit... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
With three novels coming out this fall, you might never guess that Jason Reynolds didn’t like to read books in elementary school, or even high school. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]