Tag: books
member name: Chris Steib
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December 09, 2009 06:20 PM EST --
Toward the end of each year, a few friends and I start an email thread about our favorite things in about a dozen different categories from the last 50 weeks or so. Books is a fixture on our best-of . . .
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May 20, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
How many of the books on your shelves have you read? If you're at all like me, that answer is somewhere between "not many" and "I dunno." And like other self-proclaimed literary . . .
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January 15, 2009 03:55 PM EST --
Per Publisher's Weekly , it looks like Barnes & Noble is dropping the axe on 100 positions from the corporate office in NYC.
In a statement on the cuts, CEO Steve Riggio said, . . .
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June 23, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Let's face it: as literary enthusiasts, it's hard to sneak in a few pages during work without running the risk of looking like a total slacker. And unless your favorite pasttime involves writing . . .
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January 13, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
Blatant copyright infringement aside, I'm digging the efforts of this blogger at "Golden Gems" to bring to digital life some classic little golden (and other vintage) books. See this . . .
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October 09, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
UPDATE : Rumor around The Swedish Academy is that the nomination of Le Clézio was (gasp!) leaked ahead of Thursday's planned announcement I read the Reuters article twice to try to figure out what . . .
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . .
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September 08, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
5:05pm UPDATE: Wired magazine blogged it better than the Times, giving the new digital reader a more thorough look (rather than just a look ahead) .
Per the New York Times , the famed . . .
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September 10, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
I am, as you may know, a huge fan of digital books, what with their versatility, cost-effectiveness, and...erm...digitalness. But I am decidedly not a fan of people who take advantage of technology . . .
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September 26, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
Photographer Kyle Cassidy always wondered if there "was a connection between the places that writers work and their work itself" -- and to answer the question, he selected 20 Science Fiction authors . . .
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April 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
The Sony Reader, some have said, is a solution in search of a problem – that there's no apparent need for this technology and it is, at best, a benefit to a very narrow audience. I would argue, . . .
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December 20, 2007 05:45 PM EST --
So there's this annoying little letter we have used on the webernet since, gosh, it seems like just about forever ago. It's a vowel, a familiar and friendly letter that I've now used six . . .
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March 03, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
March is Small Press Month, as you may have heard, and I've outlined below 10 ways to help our indie friends stay afloat in this increasingly conglomerated, flooded, and financially challenging literary . . .
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October 18, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
The Association of American Publishers last week released book sales figures for August 2007, which showed 9.8% growth as compared to the same month in 2006, on par with an 11.2% year-to-date (YTD) increase . . .
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October 15, 2009 04:55 PM EDT --
-- Privacy Proponents Fight Patriot Act's Exposure of Bookseller Lists --
I hope you kept your receipt for The Anarchist Cookbook , because Big Brother may indeed be watching your book-buying . . .
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March 06, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
At the Association of American Publishers' general annual meeting today in midtown Manhattan, Microsoft Corporation's Associate General Counsel Thomas Rubin took the opportunity to trot out . . .
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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . .
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June 07, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
I first read about this on Truemors (the new site by web entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki), and tracked the link to UK techie news site Register. Here's the story, in brief: in an attempt to make a point . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Move aside Oprah: Esquire.com, the online edition of the eponymous print mag, posted this week the editor's picks of the top 75 books every guy should read (it is, if you don't know, the publication's . . .
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May 06, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
This year, I decided to read 50 books for my New Year's Resolution . I'm a little behind schedule, staring down book #14 right now ( The Audiacity of Hope ), which I'm reading on my Sony Reader. . . .
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