Tag: literary
member name: Chris Steib
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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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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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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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November 20, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
File this one under "Award-winning books I will never read," the National Book Award in Fiction was given yesterday to Peter Matthiessen , a prolific novelist and non-fiction writer of more . . .
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November 30, 2008 04:19 PM EST --
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced earlier this month a 2% decrease in domestic net book sales from August to September -- with a 1.5% decrease year-to-year.
Hardcovers crashed . . .
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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 05, 2009 04:50 PM EDT --
With the exciting announcement of a new local bookshop in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn, NY, my love and nostalgia for the indie book shop is in full swing. During a trek down to SoHo this week . . .
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August 05, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
NBA's site features a visual list of the 77 fiction-prize winners over the last six decades of handing out the Award. Sadly, I've only read five of them in their entirety, and snippets of others. . . .
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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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April 14, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
As expected, I really fell behind on my goal to read 50 books this year, but a few quick classics and some forthcoming poetry reads should put me back on track. For this segment (my first in nearly two . . .
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April 19, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The 50-book warpath continues, and this time the bodies on the battlements include a rapturous poetry read by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tiresome tale of unrealistic romance from the former editor of . . .
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July 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Using an exacto knife and old pulp novels, American photographer/artist Thomas Allen created a series of delightful diaramas that spotlight the quirky appeal to the classic paperback genre. Shot in . . .
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June 03, 2009 11:00 AM EDT --
Print is dead...long live print! Defying struggling book sales and a sluggish economy, two award-winning book nerds set out to open a brick-and-mortar book store.
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo ( of the . . .
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May 21, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
I stumbled on this self-publishing company called Lulu today (I was actually looking for LaLa.com ), and was impressed with the quality and breadth of offerings on the site. With more than a dozen . . .
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March 06, 2008 07:27 AM EST --
There's a lot of uncertainty and debate -- particularly among Gatherers -- about the future of books in the digital age, and I wanted to bring to light a few recent developments that may hint at a . . .
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April 03, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
April, as you literary folk know, is National Poetry Month. And who better to celebrate it with than the good people at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers (AKA Knopf Doubleday Publishers, AKA Random House, Inc., . . .
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November 01, 2007 02:22 PM EDT --
It's yet to be determined how and when, exactly, publishing will be revolutionized, but rest assured that if any one company will be responsible it will be Google . But until the Palo Alto-based . . .
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April 06, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Print may not be dead quite yet, but a recent literary initiative by the Los Angeles Times could relegate the paper's native medium as an afterthought to its digitally rendered sibling. In the . . .
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