An expanded Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, says Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, will help expand educational programming and book sales figures. The post Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Extended to 10 Days appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
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Spurred by revelations of how the National Security Agency is collecting information on citizens, the Campaign for Reader Privacy has issued a statement calling for Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Country, the Penguin Group’s online writing community and self-publishing platform, has launched a curated page on Kickstarter, the popular online crowdfunding site, to highlight funding projects by Book Country members. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We offer a survey of publishing in the Slovak Republicm, which has struggled to gain recognition in the international market in spite of a lively literary scene and book market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A collection of first edition books illustrated by the Edwardian artist Arthur Rackham has sold for more than £40,000 at auction. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Six years and 900 pages on, there ended up being two million reasons why this first-time author would have been glad to have stuck with the written word. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers have chosen the 10 "less ordinary" books they think will become... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The makers of the viral hit The Fox will launch a picture book based on their comedy video. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Award with an interactive flap book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gertrude Stein's children's book, The World is Round, is 75 this year and is being rereleased by Harper Design in a reproduction of the book’s first edition from 1939. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Much-watched song by Norwegian musical comedy duo due out in US as illustrated storyNorwegian musical comedy duo Ylvis may be very silly, but that's not likely to hold back their next venture, an illustrated children's book based on their massive YouTube hit song, The Fox, which is to be... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The All Pakistan Private Schools Management Assn. represents 40,000 affiliated schools across Pakistan and has banned the book from its libraries.Malala Yousafzai has become an international celebrity. In her book "I Am Malala," the Pakistani teen who survived being shot in the head by a member... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a 10-year hiatus BNP Media relaunched The Assembly Show Oct. 27-29 at the Daniel E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon, which has been blamed in part for the decline of independent bookstores, said it has a new program called Amazon Source to allow them and other retailers to resell Kindle devices and accessories, and also give them 10 percent on every ebook bought on them for two years. "With Amazon... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This month's starred self-published books of note include a fictional tragedy in pre-colonial Nigeria and a memoir where beer pong meets sado-masochism. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last night's "F.Z.Z.T." wasn't very heavy with the comic book easter eggs, but it was filled to the brim with callbacks to earlier events in Marvel's movies. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I find way too many inaccuracies," MacKenzie Bezos writes in a critical Amazon.com review of a new book about the company her husband founded.The vast majority of the 45 Amazon.com customers who have reviewed Bloomberg Businessweek writer Brad Stone's new book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Asus has been in the tablet and keyboard dock game for a while now. After several generations of Android based tablet and keyboard dock combinations, the T100 brings the sometimes schizophrenic interface of Windows 8 to its logical home on a hybrid tablet/notebook. The tablet looks and feels... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lenovo is known for building notebooks with exquisite keyboards, but the company is also no stranger to the tablet game. It has also introduced pioneering convertibles, such as the Yoga 11s and the newer Flex 14. The Miix 10 should be the culmination of that experience, but this hybrid falls... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The prize fund for the Wellcome Book Prize has been increased to £30,000. This marks a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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