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Social Site BookLikes is Now Open for Business

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:35:55 +0000

BookLikes has been in beta version for quite some time, but the website has now launched its full release. The site seems to combine different aspects of social media sites such as Tumblr and Goodreads to become a place for readers to share thoughts and reviews. BookLikes is not just limited to reviews. Users can [...]

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Locus Awards 2013 Ballot Announced

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:54:13 +0000

From Boing Boing comes news of this year’s Locus nominees, shared there because one of its editors, Cory Doctorow, is nominated. I am not a huge SF reader, so most of these have stayed off my radar. But if you go for that stuff, enjoy this list of good books! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL • The Hydrogen [...]

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Dust jacket envelopes make it easy to donate your books by mail

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:09:25 +0000

A social entrepreneurship company based in Australia, Mailbooks for Good, has recently launched a literary-minded project that combines good design and a simple but strong idea with the joy of philanthropy. The company’s tagline, “Re-gift the gift of reading,” does a decent job of explaining the concept. But here’s the general idea, direct from the [...]

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Keeping Score with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

Lynn Rosen — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:15:45 +0000

It was the first day of my first college English class, and the teacher of our freshman seminar opened the discussion by announcing that, in this class, we were going to read only books written by women authors. My first thought was that that seemed to be a rather arbitrary and meaningless distinction. Then she [...]

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What does it take to turn your Tumblr into a book?

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:00:34 +0000

Tumblr has millions of active users, creating 90 million new posts a day. There are informative sites, funny sites and reflective sites. Throughout the years, some of Tumblr’s sites have become so popular some have even gotten book deals – well, 70, to be exact. Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed that number at the paidContent [...]

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Books and Hypocrisy in America: One father’s unique perspective

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:15:53 +0000

The image above (also linked to here) has been making the social media rounds lately. Not much to say about it other than “I agree.” It reminds me of a documentary the Beloved and I have been watching on Netflix this week about a man who left the Neo-Nazi community and is trying to [...]

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The Rise of the Fundraiser Book

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:16:03 +0000

Two stories crossed my inbox this morning on the rise of the fudnraiser book. The first was a review about an anthology called Orange Karen that was conceived as a fundraiser for author Karen DeLabar, who is recovering from a battle with toxic shock syndrome. Fellow authors, both amateur and professional, contributed to the book, [...]

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Blackstrap’s business model takes the digital publishing revolution backwards—but in a good way

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:11:09 +0000

We’ve watched with interest as a few new digital publishing-related startups have launched seemingly out of the blue over the past few weeks. Thin Reads, a fantastic new website that runs reviews of e-singles, is definitely one of our favorites, and we’re clearly not alone; the site has been enjoying a ton of mostly glowing [...]

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Arthur Frommer reacquires his guidebook brand from Google

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:57:05 +0000

According to an Associated Press report that was filed less than three hours ago today, the travel publishing pioneer Arthur Frommer “said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks.” Back on the 22nd of March, we reported on the news [...]

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StoryWorth: Stories that cross generations

Juli Monroe — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:50:50 +0000

We all love stories. For many of us, it’s why we read, whether on paper or in electrons. But what are the most meaningful stories? For many of us, we love stories about our past, our families, and where we came from. StoryWorth is a start-up that aims to make telling, reading and keeping those [...]

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Author and TV personality Gail Vaz-Oxlade liberates geo-locked content as blog

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:01:53 +0000

Here’s an interesting story from one of my favorite financial writers, Gail Vaz-Oxlade. The Beloved and I are devotees of her ‘jar’ system for budgeting, and my diligence at applying her simple financial planning ‘rules’ helped me pay off my student loan and simultaneously save over $10,000 in my retirement account in four years. She [...]

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The Annual Calibre Library Cleanup, and What I Learned This Year

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:15:05 +0000

Every year, at around this time, I do a big e-book purge. Something about March Break brings out the spring cleaning demon, and when I need a break from cleaning my physical home, I curl up with my Macbook and tackle my digital one. My goals in years past have been to clean up metadata [...]

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Actor Jim Carrey to self-publish children’s book

Susan Lulgjuraj — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:41 +0000

Self-publishing means anyone can put out a book—from first-time authors trying to make a name for themselves, to celebrities who have the star power necessary to move units. The next big name to jump into the self-publishing fray? Actor Jim Carrey. According to a video interview Carrey conducted with the website, Hit Fix he’s publishing a children’s book [...]

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Google kills its Frommer’s division, and the travel guidebook industry takes another step towards obscurity

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:10:03 +0000

I actually made a private pact with myself yesterday that we wouldn’t run any more Google stories on TeleRead, at least for a few days. Over the past couple weeks, it almost feels as if the site has morphed into something of a Google wire service. But then Joanna Cabot filed her daily Morning Links roundup [...]

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E-Retailers now accounting for nearly half of book sales

Juli Monroe — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:20:58 +0000

We’ve finally tipped the balance, according to a recent Bowkers study. In the U.S., through November, in 2012, almost 44 percent of books were sold online, versus almost 32 percent sold in large retail chains, independent bookstores, other mass merchandisers and supermarkets. No, they weren’t all e-books, but a goodly percentage of them were. Twenty-eight [...]

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