Tag: publishers
member name: Chris Steib
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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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October 29, 2009 02:13 PM EDT --
Check out the list of actively-Tweeting writers, publishers, book bloggers and booksellers I put together using Twitter's new Lists feature. It runs the gamut from international bestseller Margaret . . .
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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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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 29, 2009 04:42 PM EDT --
Barnes & Noble recently started showing off the Nook , their new eBook reader that merges an iPhone-like LCD touch screen and the eInk-powered monochrome reader page. Last week, AOL's tech blog, . . .
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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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October 21, 2009 10:42 AM EDT --
Slagging book sales, be damned! Two publishing vets banded together to launch a new bookshop this weekend in the cozy community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. With a combined 25 years in the books biz, Jessica . . .
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September 24, 2009 10:42 PM EDT --
After getting trounced repeatedly in book sales since the onset of the downturn in late 2008, publishers are rejoicing very cautiously and quietly over July's little skip up in book sales. The Association . . .
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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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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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November 10, 2008 12:33 AM EST --
Okay, quick and dirty. I've been sitting on this post for a while, and I just keep adding books to it. So I'm going to blow through each review as fast as possible and still try to get across . . .
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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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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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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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August 03, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
Feeling guilty about being an unproductive scribe? Enjoy your next coffee break(s) with this great list of 100+ Lit-Twitterers that will remind you that even the likes of Paulo Coelho get distracted . . .
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