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Bookstore as Mr. Right?
Blog | www.ambook.org | 14 hours 30 minutes ago
Porter Square Books is one of the places you can pick up a free copy of Give + Take. No, you can't actually buy this book anywhere - the publisher has printed up 1,000 copies and is giving away all of them. Okay, they're not technically books, but I'm a sucker for anything with writing on it.
First-time Novelist and Independent Publishing Company Meet with Unexpected Success
Blog | bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com | Oct 10, 2008
When a small independent publisher and a first-time novelist decided to work together, neither could have anticipated the incredible early results. The novel, Resurrecting Randi, has quickly gained praise from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and is winning ardent fans across the country.
http://bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-time-novelist-and-independent.html
Reading Spines
Blog | blog.oup.com | Oct 9, 2008
recently spent a year of his life reading the OED from start to finish. Over the next few months he will be posting weekly blogs about the insights, gems, and thoughts on language that came from this experience.
Site of the week: Translated fiction
Blog | www.guardian.co.uk | Oct 8, 2008
Lindesay Irvine: Can you even remember the name of the translator of the last foreign language book you read?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/08/site.week.translated.fiction
The Adventures of an International Bookseller
Blog | www.publishersweekly.com | Oct 7, 2008
In which a children's bookseller pontificates on all things literary, artistic and mercantile
http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266/post/130034413.html?nid=3340
Book news: 'Friday Night Lights,' Gwen Ifill and more
Blog | latimesblogs.latimes.com | Oct 2, 2008
Tonight "Friday Night Lights" returns to TV screens (DirectTV, that is). In a roundtable last month, the New York Times wrote, "'Friday Night Lights' still has the ability to shock us, even 20 years after the events it describes have occurred.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/10/book-news.html
Did Palin Meddle with the Library?
News | www.libraryjournal.com | Oct 1, 2008
After Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose little-known Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, questions surfaced about how Palin as the mayor of Wasilla (pop. 5500)—elected in 1996 with backing from Christian conservatives—treated the Wasilla Public Library (WPL), given her
Shared Worlds
News | www.schoollibraryjournal.com | Oct 1, 2008
Shouts of joy erupted from a group of teens when they were told that they were going to the local Barnes & Noble bookstore to buy Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight series (Little Brown, 2008). Were these youngsters members of a book club that met at the library or a
BookstoreWeek
Blog | bookweb.org | Sep 26, 2008
You know, with record-setting bank failures claiming most of their attention, I don't think our friends at McGraw-Hill will be too upset that I borrowed one of their titles for this week's post.
A Dozen Ways to Market Your Book if You’re a Children’s Book Author
News | suzannelieurance.com | Sep 20, 2008
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