A bet on books' continuing pop-hop Los Angeles Times At the new Pop-Hop Books & Print in Highland Park, a pair of print aficionados believes that others, like themselves, cling to the page in the age of ebooks. Sarah Balcomb and Robey Clark are the owners of Pop-Hop, a new bookshop and print studio in ... |
Unglue.it Crowdfunds ebooks Baristanet Open Book Publishers, Oral Literature in Africa, by Ruth Finnegan. So the books aren't actually “free” at all. They simply become available to all others if a certain minimum is raised. (Reminds me, sort of, of an IPO.) So this isn't the return of The ... |
Timeless Classics of Literature Upgraded With Already-Dated Augmented Reality Gizmodo So, why does the idea of creating special features for ebooks seem so... unnecessary? In partnership with the augmented reality (AR) platform Zappar, Big Six publisher Penguin is upgrading some of the public doman classics of literature in its ... |
Children's Book Week Inspired Reading at Sylvan Dell PR.com (press release) At Sylvan Dell more than 6500 readers logged on to take advantage of free eBooks during Children's Book Week. Mt. Pleasant, SC, May 19, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Sylvan Dell Publishing is excited to have touched more than 6500 children, teachers and parents ... |
E-books not proving to be bestsellers in SA Business Day The arrival of the tablet PC on the market has changed the face of publishing, encouraging the use of electronic reader devices such as Kindle, which have altered the way people consume literature. Tim Richman, director of Burnet Media, says most South ... |
It's All About the Money: The Shrinking Horror Niche Salon (blog) The answer to why is worse than simply “e-books;” it is what e-culture is doing to the arts; it is the proverbial bull in the china shop. Advocates of technology are quick to give away products of the humanities, to minimize the effort and dedication ... |
Bancroft Press Gives Away Free eBooks in Celebration of Indie Publishing and ... Albany Times Union Her first novel, The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns, drew praise from sources as diverse as Kirkus Reviews, dozens of literary blogs, and chick lit pioneer Jane Green, who recommended it “enthusiastically.” “The Understory, set in Phoenix, Arizona, ... |
The Writer's Fight Ahead TheTyee.ca Brian Brett, winner of BC's literary Lieutenant Governor's Award, on his duty to 'confront the world.' By Brian Brett, Today, TheTyee.ca This Trauma Farmer reads The Tyee from his Salt Spring Island writer's haven. Join him as a Builder and score a ... |
KLTI to select 15 authors for global launch The Korea Herald The Korea Literature Translate Institute announced on Tuesday they will select 15 local writers and support them with publishing their works overseas. The 300 million-won ($257000) project consists of translating excerpts from the selected writer's ... |
Festival celebrates crime writing Irvine Herald Bloody Scotland has events covering forensics, ebooks and debates on the ethics of crime writing, as well as a discussion entitled "This house believes it's time a crime novel won the Man Booker". Authors Quintin Jardine and Christopher Brookmyre ... |
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