Yesterday I coughed up $6.99 for Loud Crow Interactive's digital pop-up remake of the Charles Schultz holiday classic. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is available for Android and iOS from the Amazon, Apple and Google mobile apps stores -- for smartphones and tablets. The digital book delights, is more than worth 7 bucks and demonstrates how tablet apps/books should utilize the touchscreen. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the must-have addition to any tablet you gift. Tablets top this year's holiday wish lists. But "A Charlie Brown Christmas" also reveals a problematic similarity to the early PC era: Application incompatibilities across operating [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'
[ Betanews | 2011-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Drinking sherry, bingeing Downton Abbey ... how authors keep up the spirit of the season, even when writing during heatwaves and a nightmarish ChristmasChristmas novels are not a new phenomenon. Charles Dickens sold out of his first print run of A Christmas Carol in days in December 1843, while... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-17 15:22:04 UTC ]
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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin), Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy (Bluebird) and Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Viking) are all in the running for the Christmas number one spot, as the print market heads into its final week before Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 11:48:04 UTC ]
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Non-essential shops will be closed in Wales from the end of Christmas Eve trading as part of fresh lockdown restrictions, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 04:46:06 UTC ]
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Lauren Child is bringing back Clarice Bean in a “spectacularly cinematic Christmas classic” for HarperCollins Children's Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 02:21:05 UTC ]
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Finding solace and humor in gems from by P.G. Wodehouse, Daisy Ashford, Barry Pain and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-16 14:00:00 UTC ]
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In light of last week’s Penguin ethnicity pay gap report, their first-ever following in the footsteps of Hachette’s 2019 iteration, it seems like the perfect moment to reconsider the publishing industry’s approach to those vague, catch-all acronyms and terms that are so often used... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-10 06:31:16 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has triumphed in a four-way publisher auction for Daphne Palasi Andreades’ “evocative and original” debut novel Brown Girls in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 17:18:36 UTC ]
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The billionaire philanthropist offers some recommendations to get you through the final stretches of quarantine. While Bill Gates’s 2020 summer reading list concentrated on the pandemic and its economic repercussions, the Microsoft founder opted for a “change of pace” in considering his... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-12-08 11:00:59 UTC ]
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Dame Helen Mirren has become an ambassador of the World Literacy Foundation's (WLF) UK initiative, UK Reads, and has added her support to its Christmas appeal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 18:36:55 UTC ]
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Whether it’s a banned book duvet cover or a book page throw, a book blanket is the perfect warm and fuzzy—but also extremely smart—gift.- Stacey Megally Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-12-03 11:33:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers reported a significant drop in customer traffic and a commensurate drop in sales, but online orders were way up, forcing bookstores to adapt. Barack Obama's memoir and Jeff Kinney's latest were the most popular titles over the Thanksgiving weekend at stores surveyed by 'PW.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The collective hopes to turn the Oxford home of the famed author into a center celebrating his works. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2020-12-02 20:54:10 UTC ]
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The Calibre Audio charity for readers who have print disabilities is hoping to add 48 new audiobooks to its library this holiday season. The post Calibre Audiobook Charity Joins the UK’s Big Give Holiday Challenge appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-02 20:32:53 UTC ]
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Nigel Jones, formerly of Ottakar's and the Totnes Bookshop, and his wife Claire Jones, a former W H Smith children's buyer, are to open their own independent bookshop in Totnes, two weeks before Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 12:29:44 UTC ]
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A group of publishers are donating thousands of books to The Childhood Trust’s campaign, to ensure disadvantaged children in London receive a present this Christmas. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-29 18:36:18 UTC ]
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Little, Brown's Sphere and Piatkus imprints are teaming up with digital marketing consultancy The Tandem Collective to launch a new writing prize that champions underrepresented voices in the romance genres. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 22:16:31 UTC ]
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Emma Styles has won the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2020 for her novel, No Country for Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:41:36 UTC ]
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The Baillie Gifford Prize, founded in 1999 following the end of the NCR Book Award for Nonfiction, celebrates the best non-fiction writing in the English language of the year. The honor comes with £50,000, and each of the shortlisted authors will receive £1,000. Previous winners include Hallie... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 19:57:04 UTC ]
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Craig Brown has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with his “joyous” One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate), which judges said “reinvented the art of biography”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 18:12:59 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books increased 18.3% last week, an indication that the early shopping surge that retailers have been hoping for may be taking place. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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