Tag: chris steib
member name: Chris Steib
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May 05, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
In case you haven't been to Amazon.com over the past few days, or if you were not among the dozens of viewers to watch Martha Stewart this afternoon, the world's leading online super-mega-retailer . . .
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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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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . .
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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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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 23, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Here's a quickie for those interested in the slow, painful death of the printed word: Jeff Gomez, author of the forthcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , is talking the talk . . .
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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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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . .
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April 18, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
Just when you thought things couldn't get much tougher for the publishing industry, the paper predecessors to forthcoming film adaptations may have begun taking a backseat to their own treatments. . . .
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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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December 30, 2008 02:56 PM EST --
In what appears to be indicative of the overall economic kick-in-the-pants, book sales slumped more than 20% in October, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Though only down 3.4% . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
According to the New York Times , a recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts showed that "the proportion of overall literary reading increased among virtually all age groups, . . .
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . .
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June 24, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
With beach season now upon us, publishers are undoubtedly in full-swing summer-reading mode, paying exorbitant sums of cash to stock B&N's front-list tables with disposable mass-market fodder. . . .
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February 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Jumping on the bandwagon of industries claiming to be totally screwed by China's 90% piracy rate, American publishers told Congress last week that the conservative estimate for their losses due to . . .
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . .
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December 19, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
As you, savvy reader of electronically published text, are probably aware, Kindle -- Amazon's enviable e-book solution -- sold out the very first week it was available via the online retail . . .
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January 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
For those unaware, this year I pledged to read 50 books as my literary New Year's resolution. I'm on target so far, having read two and finishing my third today or tomorrow (depending on whether . . .
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