Over the cool beats of a rapper's rhythm, Wes Tank is inspiring his YouTube followers with a new twist on children's book classics. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'
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Literature. Love. They get skewered — though generously — by Los Angeles author Mark Haskell Smith in his new novel, 'Raw: A Love Story.'It's impossible to count how many times literature has died. In the last century alone, it's been killed by radio, television, comic books, video games and,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian authors and critics sift through the piles of books they read in 2013 to highlight the treasures they found. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Like some booksellers—and a few authors—Nicole Sullivan decided to mix booze and books. In her case it was in service of her Denver-based bookstore. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily Mail website continues spectacular growth, also attracting a record 168 million monthly unique browsers in November Mail Online continues to break traffic records, topping 10 million daily average unique browsers for the first time in November.The digital juggernaut is yet to see a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie publishing via online writing communities and ebooks can provide valuable feedback, and even set you on the path to mainstream successNews that a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers doesn't surprise me. I started out writing online. Fed up with the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The magazine was once the most hotly anticipated Sunday read. Now it's been eclipsed by the showy T style publicationTwo magazines, both published by the New York Times, arrived in my house over the weekend, one thin, the other thick.The thin one, The New York Times Magazine, is largely about... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia's reading culture was destroyed, but over the past five years it has returned with the help of a revitalized publishing industry. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I read while traveling, waiting for meetings, in the evening, and especially on vacation. As you can see, I'm still pretty much an old-school print guy, because I like to jot notes in the margins, but I assume I'll move over to ebooks when annotation features get better. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite being digitally savvy Taiwanese readers are dedicated to print and ebooks remain just 2% of the market — though change is afoot. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A database of more than two million stolen passwords for Facebook, Yahoo and others has been published online, a security firm has found. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When I was a teenager, I thought it would be great to be an adult and be surrounded by people who weren't mean to each other all day. Enter stage left: the world wide webBack in the early 90s, when I was still at school and words such as "friend" and "message" were nouns as opposed to verbs, a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new deal with Penguin UK means a greater variety of books for the insurgent platform. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers have launched online advent calendars offering readers prizes in the countdown to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The conversation about the Common Core standards will be a hot topic at this year’s ALA Midwinter Meeting, as many public librarians make efforts to reach their patrons and community members—as well as form partnerships with school librarians—to provide information on the standards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At PW, we’ve always served the library community, but you’ve probably noticed that in recent months we’ve ramped up our commitment to covering library news and issues, with a lineup of monthly columnists writing on a broad range of issues affecting libraries and publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan celebrated the relaunch of MyKindaBook.com, an online platform for teen and YA books,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Mail is to launch an online operation in Australia in January 2014. The newspaper has gone into partnership with Mi9, the digital media company owned by Nine Entertainment. Mail Online will provide original Australian content alongside ninemsn, a joint venture between Nine and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new book retail site, The Great British Bookshop, is being soft-launched in December, vowing to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Multichannel network distributes, syndicates and matches content creators with online publishersYou may never have heard of Rightster but you have more than likely watched videos it syndicates on YouTube, newspaper websites and specialist live streaming sites like one for the recent... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, has revealed his vision of the future role for journalists employed by his regional newspaper group.According to a Press Gazette report based on a sight of Monty's mission statement, a single journalist will fill a weekly paper by "skimming online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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