Nation’s Retailers Engage In Online Book Pricing War : NPR: Anyone who has ever cringed at the price of a new hardcover book will be interested in news of the current price war between some of the largest retailers: The price war took off last week when Walmart, in a bid to compete with Amazon […]
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Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com: Thanks to Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, e-book sales are finally zooming, after more than a decade in the doldrums. But the pioneering device may not dominate the market for long. As Castaldo found, many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be
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‘Conversations With God’ Author Accused of Plagiarism – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com: Neale Donald Walsch, author of the best-selling series ‘Conversations with God,’ recently posted a personal Christmas essay on the spiritual Web site Beliefnet.com that was nearly identical to a 10-year-old article originally published by a little-known writer in a spiritual magazine. He now
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With ‘Angel at the Fence,’ Another Memoir Is Found to Be False – NYTimes.com: In media circles, there is a joke about facts that are too good to check. This week Oprah Winfrey and the New York publishing industry stumbled on yet another unverified account in the form of a Holocaust survivor who said his
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End of the book? – Los Angeles Times: From his perspective of more than 30 years in the publishing industry, Tom Engelhardt speculates on the current state of the industry: In scale, even the largest of modern publishers isn’t exactly a General Motors or a Citigroup or an AIG, in part because unlike cars, banking
Writers strike out on their own with a website | csmonitor.com: Striking writer Peter Hyoguchi was walking the picket line outside Disney’s ABC Studios in Burbank, Calif., in January when he had an epiphany. What if scriptwriters launched a website featuring their work, which they would own and control free of studio interference? That hunch
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The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence – Los Angeles Times: Books require a different sort of communion with one’s subject than the Internet. They foster a different sort of memory — more tactile, more participatory. . . . For literary works, books are still, and most likely always will be, indispensable. In the Los Angeles
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Inside Google Book Search: Book Search everywhere with new partnerships and tools: Google makes it even easier for readers to part with their hard-earned cash: Today, we’re taking a big step towards bringing more books, across more sites, to more people online. We’re launching a set of free tools that allow retailers, publishers, and anyone
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Books | A list of 40 upcoming fiction and nonfiction books | Seattle Times Newspaper: Just in time to distract you from all the election mud-slinging comes this list, from the Seattle Times, of books being published this fall.
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Book Review – ‘The Time of Their Lives – The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors,’ by Al Silverman – Review – NYTimes.com: Writer Bruce Jay Friedman reviews a new book about the golden age of publishing, which book author Silverman defines as covering the years between 1946 and the
