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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Digital Book WorldOne of the most confusing things to me about the Amazon-Hachette contract dispute saga is why do so many indie authors want so passionately for Hachette, a competitor, to lower its prices? Isn’t it against their self-interest? Don&...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesChina's self-publishing portals are offering writers access to vast audiences and earning them staggering royalties, and turning some into multi-millionaires.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOne of the concerns when people sign up for subscription services like Kindle Unlimited is “will I use it enough to make it worth the cost?” Hugh Howey likens it to gym memberships where you sign up for auto-renewal and then ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOkay, yes, I admit the first time I saw this, my reaction was something like: weird steampunky fusion of tablet and mechanical spider. I don’t know which of us started singing “Spider Thing” to the tune of “Spider...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsSimon Marshall-Jones is founding publisher and editor at Spectral Press, the small but already highly regarded British producer of horror and dark fiction chapbooks and anthologies. I spoke to him about what prompted him to publish in th...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsToday, August 11th, marks the birth of Christopher Murray Grieve, otherwise known as Hugh MacDiarmid, one of the greatest Scottish writers of modern times. He was also one of the most fervent and articulate advocates of an unique Scottis...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from theBookseller.comThe Carnegie UK Trust is starting a new £200,000 project to help expand the role of public...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesThe Frankfurt Book Fair will organize a two-day self-publishing and author program at the 2014 fair this year, aimed at an international audience.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from theBookseller.comViking has pre-empted a major new biography of former US president John F Kennedy. The book,...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] International Read an eBook Day debuts September 18 First-ever eBook holiday celebrates and raises awareness of digital reading August 11, 2014 – Thursday, September 18, will mark the first International Read an eBook Day...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesSales of Russian books in the Ukraine have plummeted in 2014 and the Ukrainian government is looking at passing legislation to curtail imports further.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesIn the place where gladiators once fought, the city of Rome is hosting a summer exhibition of the public and private libraries of the Ancient World.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Digital Book World[Press Release] HarperCollins Publishers Announces Promotional Fund for Independent Retail Accounts HarperCollins Publishers today announced the HarperCollins Promotional Fund (HCPF), which will provide an additional fund of marketing do...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsWhich Subscription Service is Best for Self-Published Authors: Kindle Unlimited, Scribd or Oyster? (Media Shift) Is Kindle Unlimited the best, or should self-publishers join the Scribd or Oyster programs instead? How do you get in? Read ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Digital Book World
Amazon's latest volley in the ongoing dispute, more from Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch, authors weigh in on Amazon-Hachette standoff, a history of ReadersUnited.com, Amazon turns up pressure on Disney and more. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The biggest news out of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference this year revolved around the next version of their mobile operating system: iOS 8. Much anticipated, iOS 8 favours function over form by focusing on features instead of u... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from theBookseller.comThe dispute between Amazon and Hachette Book Group (HBG) has escalated further after the online...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from theBookseller.comQuadrille founder and m.d. Alison Cathie is stepping down from her role. Cathie founded the...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from theBookseller.comCanongate has acquired an account of life at Guantanamo Bay by one of its prisoners, Mohamedou...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsHere’s a couple of interesting takes on the Amazon/Hachette affair. It’s kind of refreshing, actually, after all this back and forth he-said/she-said of authors in favor of Amazon or Hachette and Amazon and Hachette themselves to look at...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Bridging the gap between ebooks and role-playing games leaves you with a new genre of app: gamebooks. Essentially adding another dimension, gamebooks immerse the reader into the narrative by allowing them to make choices that influence t... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWhy are we so seduced by the idea of invisibility? Philip Ball's investigation is both original and thought-provoking Continue reading...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon has started a new website that explains the nature of the Hachette eBook dispute and hopes to alleviate some concerns. It is aimed primarily at readers and how they will pay less money for their favorite digital titles. The full n... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Books: Ebooks | theguardian.comCompares Hachette dispute to past paperback fears, but partially quoting George Orwell is a risky move Amazon has hit back following an open letter from more than 900 authors criticising its licensing dispute with publisher Hachette, whi...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Getting a smartphone unlocked has traditionally been a frustrating and tedious process that usually begins with a call to your carrier and ends with either a lengthy support call that involves delving deep into the settings on your devic... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Just about everybody uses Facebook, which means that just about everybody already knows that Facebook is migrating the Messenger functionality out of the core app and into a standalone Facebook Messenger app. What many hadn’t reali... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
There are a lot of mobile games that compete for our attention, and for many of us that means finding a simple game that we can become addicted to –at least in waiting rooms. Freaking Math is unique, fast-paced, and infuriatingR... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
News that Square Enix has launched Dragon Quest IV for Android, an epic RPG from a familiar (and very successful) RPG franchise, is very exciting. Dubbed as the first installment in the Zenithian Trilogy, this adventure spans across 5 ch... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsDigital Book World is carrying the response Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch is sending to those people who write him at Amazon’s behest. Since I posted the Amazon letter in full, it seems only fair to do the same for this. Pietsch (or whoev...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Following the implementation of an end-to-end encryption upgrade by Google to their Gmail service, Yahoo has announced that by 2015 their email offering will also use the same security enhancements. Yahoo’s Chief Information Securi... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Yotadevices has announced they are fleeing Moscow and moving their global headquarters to Toronto. The main reason they are doing this is to tap into a number of former Blackberry engineers and to circumvent the growing number of US trad... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Nook Blog
August 11, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is PAYBACK IN PANAMA – the final book in the Cuban Trilogoy Series — is a must-read political thriller for just $1.99. Overview After two attempts on her life, Alex is faced wit... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from globeandmail - Books & MediaMystery Writers of America gave Ms. Davis a lifetime achievement award, and she came to be regarded as a grande dame among crime writers
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesAmazon has responded to an open letter by Authors United, signed by 900-plus authors in support of Hachette, with their own open letter, Readers United.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Digital Book WorldAccording to a company spokesperson, Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch has received “a few emails” in response to a call earlier this weekend by Amazon to contact the executive, demanding he and his company give in to the retailer...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Penguin unveiled a brand new anniversary edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last week. The Roald Dahl novel is eliciting a hefty amount of criticism from the entire reading community. The new book cover is eliciting a tremendou... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsCombination of spoken word and visual stimuli gave us understanding of the poets' work, says Ben Lawrence
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsThe Village has its moments but the end result is muddled, says Ben Lawrence
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOne of the most interesting and relevant debates for TeleRead readers to emerge out of the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014 on its first day came up on the course of a panel on graphic novels, featuring Katie Green and Matilda...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The planned acquisition of Perseus Books Group by Hachette and Ingram has collapsed. The deal, which was announced in June, would have seen Perseus’ publishing imprints go to Hachette and its distribution business go to Ingram. Hac... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon is playing hardball with Disney in ongoing contract negotiations. The Seattle based e-commerce giant has suspended pre-orders for all future DVD and Blu-Ray releases including two of the summers top hits, Captain America and Malef... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom the Jesus and Mary Chain to the Gruffalo to a discussion of inherited creativity by Julia Kerr and her son, we bring you the highlights of the second day of the festival Inner voices and independence: day one Continue reading...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Book Publishing on Huffington Post
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Empress Cixi's reputation as a cruel despot masks her contribution to China's modernisation says the author Continue reading...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedA clue to the twists and turns which will be revealed in the next series of Broadchurch has been inserted in a new book accompanying the award-winning drama.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogI recently attended the Willamette Writers Conference, and I spoke before a packed room of 50 eager writers, talking about how one can make his or her book promotable and how they can promote their books to the news media. The conference...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedFans of Game of Thrones , remain on the edge of your seats. George RR Martin is set to appear for a one-off Q&A with fans in London later this month.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedFans of Game of Thrones , remain on the edge of your seats. George RR Martin is set to appear for a one-off Q&A with fans in London later this month.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe real-life attic that was the inspiration for a section of Jane Eyre , where mentally ill character Bertha Mason is confined before she commits suicide, is now open to the public.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe real-life attic that was the inspiration for a section of Jane Eyre , where mentally ill character Bertha Mason is confined before she commits suicide, is now open to the public.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedFiction has power. It can challenge deeply entrenched beliefs and subtly alter people's perceptions. The big surprise is that the Soviet Union understood this and so did the CIA. The Zhivago Affair is the extraordinary account of how Bor...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilA majority of the writers who contributed to this list named children’s books in their responses. Elizabeth Gilbert adored The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Karen Russell worshipped A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’E...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNEW YORK, NY — Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced that Donalyn Miller is joining the company as Manager of Independent Reading and Outreach, Scholastic Book Fairs.In this newly crea...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogAt age 47 I made it to Portland, Oregon for my first and possibly last time, attending the Willamette Writers Conference. I presented a workshop on book publicity for self-published authors. I say it could be my last time just simply bec...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedGet ready for the Frozen sequel.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn Taylor’s ( Our Southern Home , 2011) crime novel set in the late 1940s, a serial killer in Birmingham, Alabama, targets African-American prostitutes, and a detective with a sense of social justice intends to stop him. Homicide detecti...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAre gay and lesbian communities losing the safety-netted solidarity of their urban centers to gentrification? In an attempt to understand a contemporary, hot-button issue facing iconic gay neighborhoods in flux, Ghaziani (Sociology/Univ....
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Book News & FeaturesAt age 14, author Aaron Gwyn was lonely and angry. His dad was dead. His mom was addicted to pills. Then he discovered The Stranger, a novel of absurdity and detachment. Somehow, it helped him deal.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
If I’m reading a book and the story gets me in the mood to listen to… oh I don’t know, The Format and New Found Glory… well, that book is a good book in my, er, book. At 31, I’m … Continued You just finished reading From Road Trips... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
If you’re from the San Francisco Bay Area, chances are you have fond memories of Children’s Fairyland, the storybook theme park on the shores of Oakland’s beautiful Lake Merritt. Fairyland opened in 1950, with admission robbing vis... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
As of June 27th, I turned 25 years old. Besides now being able to rent a car, I like to think this age mark is important for me as a reader. Over the past quarter-century, my relationship with books has … Continued You just finishe... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Book Riot News is our community site for sharing and finding interesting book-related content from all over the web. Here are the top stories from the week that was: Here’s a Bunch of Science Fiction Books with Cats o... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BOOK RIOTIn between slayin dudes and eating BBQ, #ireadeverywhere. Where do you read? @nypl pic.twitter.com/Pas0dyEBXW — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) August 5, 2014 Celebrities such as Mindy Kaling and Jim Parsons have embraced a New York Pu...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Dear Author
Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can ... -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Dear AuthorSomebody had to Say It I’ll start this post off with a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I strongly advise you to consult a lawyer who specializes in wills and trusts so that when you do shuffle off your... more
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Candace's Book BlogThe Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. ~this meme was inspired in part by ~ In My Mailbox~ It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Powell's Books: OverviewThe Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe Reviewed by Linda from Northborough, Massachusetts.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from dovegreyreader scribbles
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe email from my agent came without warning, first thing one morning four years after the publication of my first novel Gods Behaving Badly. I skimmed it sleepily. “EXCITING NEWS … shooting starts next month … Christopher Walken and Sha...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedScience fiction and fantasy is a broad church, and many who preach its tenets might not be wholly aware that they are doing so.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe 19th-century American writer, Henry Thoreau, is best-known for Walden, his account of two intense years spent brooding on the nature of life, and the life of nature, in a hut by Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Dying comparatively young, ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedAjatashatru is 38, a fakir, and also a faker, mistakenly believed by everyone in his Rajasthan village to have magical powers; and now he has managed to persuade them to club together to raise enough money for him to fly to Paris to buy ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS Feed13 August 1977
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe 415km railway that was built from 1942 to 1943 during the Second World War between the then Siam (now Thailand) and Burma, is also known as the “Death Railway”. This monicker is derived from the fact that the workers who built it for...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIf masterful new books from Lorrie Moore and Graham Swift, as well as prizes for George Saunders and Colin Barrett, signal that the short story is in rude health, then Tom Barbash flexes the form’s fettle to obscene levels of fineness in...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedOut Of Time By Lynne Segal (Verso £9.99)
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Farm Lane Books Blog » Farm Lane Books Blog
Five words from the blurb: plane, boys, across, America, adventure A few weeks ago, in an effort to ease my fear of flying, I requested recommendations for positive stories about aviation. Alex suggested Flight of Passage and I’m s... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dear Author
Significant Others by Sandra Kitt. $ 1.99 From the Jacket Copy: In bestselling author Sandra Kitt’s provocative urban romance, light-skinned Patricia Gilbert has spent much of her life passing as white, but her identity becomes much more... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on the Knob
It’s time for this week’s free audiobooks from Sync. I’ve linked in the info from the ebook or audiobook version of each title (Amazon has the best reviews), followed by the link to get your copies free, with directions... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Whatever
Amazon is not in the least bit happy about the full-page ad some authors have placed into the New York Times this weekend, complaining about its tactics in its negotiations with Hachette, so it is perhaps not entirely coincidental that t...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get 67% off on a Iron Gym Express Chin-Up Bar Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Broken Harbor ($2.99), the fourth Dublin Murder Squad novel by Tana French [Penguin]. The fifth in the series, The Secret ... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dear Author
The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice intends to w... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsOver 100 years after his birth in print, Bob, Son of Battle is seeking a new audience. He deserves one. Ollivant’s late-19th-century tale—invariably described as a children’s “classic”—tells ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Books on the Knob
The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: Dare Me (£0.99 UK; $9.99 US) by Megan Abbott [Picador] – Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012 From the bestselling author of The End of Everything, Dare Me is a searing new no... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedIn the latest chapter of Amazon’s escalating conflict with the publishing industry, hundreds of major authors have backed an open letter due to run as a full page ad in the New York Times on Sunday that accuses the internet giant of prev...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Earlier this year, an ad appeared on the Realtor.com site, in their celebrity listings section. Upon first reading the listing, it would appear that someone had gone to a lot of trouble to build a replica of Hogwarts and that … Con... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
This weekend’s giveaway is sponsored by Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid. Adi Alsaid‘s debut novel, Let’s Get Lost, delivers a captivating, coming-of-age cross-country road trip. A story about love, loss, and finding yourself, it... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
It’s time once again to topple your TBR stacks with some awesome newly-translated fiction! This month features two novels from Germany and one from Brazil. (And for everyone getting all “BUT WHAT ABOUT MURAKAMI WHAT ABOUT COL... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Today, August 9, 2014, marks the one hundredth birthday of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), known to the world as the author of the children’s books about Moomin. The first Moomin-book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was published in 19... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOT
Let’s take a look back at the week that was . . . Meryl Streep reading The Sign on Rosie’s Door by Maurice Sendack is among the 10 Sexy Celebrities Reading Children’s Books by Kate Scott ____________________ As ... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BOOK RIOTAnd even for those who like the idea of seeing their favorite boy wizard on a stamp, the results leave much to be desired. The Harry Potter stamps certainly don’t show the commitment to design we’ve seen in other commemorative … Co...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Book News & FeaturesNPR's Petra Mayer sees the sights at San Diego Comic-Con with Magicians Trilogy author Lev Grossman — and discusses what happens when wizardly kids have to face an adult world, without mentors.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dear AuthorWelcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. You can ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Powell's Books: OverviewThe Farm by Tom Rob Smith Reviewed by Barbara from Monroe, Washington.
