Tag: publishing
member name: Chris Steib
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 27, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
Here's a quick one for you: CollegeHumor.com takes a shot at the de-evolution of reading with this faux-mercial for the next-generation digital e-reader. Featuring "an exciting new visual . . .
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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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May 28, 2009 12:25 PM EDT --
Anyone who has ever participated in a book club -- and especially those who failed to read the book -- will find this all-too familiar. Funny or Die (the video-comedy site from Will Ferrell , et al) . . .
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