Tag: writers
member name: Chris Steib
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September 04, 2008 02:31 PM EDT --
For those paying close attention to Google's Chrome roll-out (see: nerds like me), you may have noticed something fishy in the Terms and Conditions : a clause that afforded Google ownership of . . .
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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February 15, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Dear "Poets,"
We want to (sort of) thank you for another batch of some of the worst love poems we've ever seen. Paired with the absolutely atrocious weather today in Manhattan, we can . . .
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March 20, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Dana Adam Shapiro is the author of the darkly comic and heartwarmingly quirky novel The Every Boy (read an excerpt here). A former senior editor of Spin and a founder of Icon magazine, Dana also . . .
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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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