Latest and Breaking Books News and Top Stories - July 3
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In what is possibly the slowest death in the publishing industry, German publisher and retailer Bertelsmann announced this week that it would be leaving the bookselling business to focus on content, which it produces not only as a book p...
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The literary world is a little darker this week after the passing of one of the greatest and most prolific modern writers of books for young people. Walter Dean Myers, a force who arguably changed the face of children’s literature ...
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With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets to its list of places where authors and publishers can earn a 70% royalty on ebooks, the rumors and misinformed half-truths have begun swirling again as authors se...
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Blackberry has all but abandoned the Playbook and many companies are pulling their support. Here at Good e-Reader we keep this tablet relevant by testing modern apps and ensuring they work. Pou – Do you have what it takes to take c...
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This week Good e-Reader puts the priority on the Top 10 New Android APps of the week! There are thousands of new apps released every day, its hard to keep track of the best ones out there. AOL @ Brazil – Don’t miss a beat in Brazil...
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There was a time when admitting that you and your significant other met online was embarrassing; these days it is nearly a cliche. Many services exist that promise to help you meet your next special someone, and adding to that list is Hi...
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Trump Hotels has announced they are scaling back leaving newspapers outside guests rooms every morning. The company intends on making them exclusively available by request only and will be moving forwards digital distribution. PressReade...
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My daily YouTube rummaging turned up a video of an interesting-looking new E Ink device called the E-Card. According to the description, the E-Card is a smartphone reading companion that can display ebooks, comics, and other content from...
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Traditional magazine advertising often captivates readers attention due to color, gloss and shine. When it comes to reading on a tablet, such as the iPad, do advertisements still resonate? According to new research by GfK MRI Starch Adve...
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Frank Gruber probably doesn't sleep much. He co-founded Tech Cocktail in 2006. The company has grown into a hub for the creative class, offering tech startup focused news, events, and resources. Frank is also a Venture Partner with Cr...
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In Beth Macy’s “Factory Man,” the head of a Southern furniture company pushes back against Chinese competition and unfavorable trade policies.
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A budding writer’s first published novel gets a big lift from mentions on “The Colbert Report.”
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When novelist and #WeNeedDiverseBooks co-founder Aisha Saeed walked into her local Barnes & Noble ten days ago, she was surprised & thrilled to see a Ramadan book display for children. She wanted to buy all four books displayed but after...
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A headline in the Wall Street Journal today promised that a senior executive at Amazon had finally spoken openly about the ongoing dispute between the online retail giant and Hachette Book Group, one of the mainstays of publishing and a ...
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WASHINGTON -- If books can make presidencies -- and Barack Obama proved they can-- then hold the talk about the inevitability of Hillary Clinton. The Huffington Post has learned that new survey figures show sales of her foreign policy me...
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On June 24, Bec Goodbourn and Kerry Henderson cast ballots in a union election held for the staff of Book Culture , the independent bookstore where they worked in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York. Like the vast majority o...
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For some "Game of Thrones" fanatics, the thought of Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow getting married is a pipe dream found only in wild fan theories -- but one couple made it happen. Superfans Kerry Ford and Darren Prew won a "Game of Thr...
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Author Walter Dean Myers died on Tuesday at the age of 76 after a brief illness, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement. Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults, including the 1999 New York Times-be...
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Get $75 OFF registration for MediabistroEDU’s brand new online boot camp, Book Promotion & Publicity Boot Camp with code SUN75 ! Hurry, this boot camp starts on July 10 ! In this intensive boot camp starting July 10, you will l...
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I wanted to see if the new Onyx Boox T68 Lynx could pull off being an E Ink comic reader using the Comixology app for Android. The app is of course designed for Android tablets and phones with LCD screens, so you never really know what t...
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According to School Library Journal, Walter Dean Myers, the prolific and influential author known best for writing books for children,
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Edith Wharton’s Lenox, MA. estate, The Mount, was badly damaged in last week’s storm.
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A Brother’s Honor by Brenda Jackson. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: The Granger brothers left behind their family’s Virginia estate—and the bad memories it holds—years ago. But their dying grandfather’s request brings them...
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Why do Western media get Africa wrong?
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There are so many ebooks on sale right now, we can't fit them all into our Cheaper By The Dozen post for tomorrow. So we're starting ebook sales early this week with a look at what romances readers can score right now for less than $3. A...
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Michael Lewis' book, Flash Boys , exposes one of Wall Street's newest scams, high-frequency trading, or HFT for short. HFT is at the heart of a greatly altered system for buying and selling common stocks that has completely transformed t...
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There's nothing quite like a man in uniform and nobody knows that better than the authors and fans of military romances. These novels feature "strong, sexy heroes and strong, sexy heroines" in dramatic, high conflict situations. "And tha...
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Emily Gould's first novel stars 30-something single women in New York City who are figuring out what's important in life. It's worth picking up for its sharp social observations and inspired wordplay.
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“I like things about Boston, but I am not wired for the East Coast. For one thing it’s loud here,” … Read More
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It's Hump Day, it's Hump Day! And what a Hump Day it is, because today we've got an excerpt from Jaci Burton 's latest smokin' Play by Play novel, Straddling the Line . This flirty dinner scene leads up to baseball and football-playing h...
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Deborah Bladon ‘s fourth title in the Pulse series leads off the Self-published Bestsellers List this week. All four books in the series made the list this week. To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we compi...
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In a heartfelt and obviously saddened letter today, the organizers behind World Book Night announced that they would no longer be able to continue the US program, despite its three year history of distributing great reads to reluctant re...
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Starz and Fremantle Media are teaming up to create a television series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods . According to the A.V. Club , Heroes screenwriter Bryan Fuller will pen the pilot script and Smallville produce...
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Originally posted on Kirkus. How soon is too soon to call a recently published book a modern classic? Just because critics praise a new book and readers buy it doesn’t mean that book will be read by future generations. The awed whispers ...
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There are few summer pleasures quite like reading a book outside in the sunshine. Well, London has taken that activity to a whole new level by installing 50 literature-inspired benches all over the city.
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Amazon just did something it hardly ever does: Talk on the record about a controversial issue. After weeks of getting slammed in the press over its fight with a book publisher , Amazon made a senior executive available for an interview o...
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Last night at the New York Public Library, a group consisting of a mega-bestselling author (James Patterson), a publisher (Morgan Entrekin), several professors, a political theorist (Danielle Allen), an attorney (Bob Kohn), a literary ag...
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One of the Android apps that I wanted to try on the Onyx Boox T68 is Feedly, an RSS news reader app. Most ebook readers, including the Kindle Paperwhite, Nook Touch and Kobo eReaders, don’t support reading RSS feeds natively, and u...
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After three years World Book Night in America is to cease. In a statement, executive director Carl Lennertz cited lack of outside funding as the main reason for ending the book-giving project: "The expenses of running World Book Night U....
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John Hargrove , a killer whale trainer and a former employee of SeaWorld theme park, has landed a book deal with Macmillan. Hargrove recently appeared in a documentary called Blackfish which explores the dangers that captive orcas pose...
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Two months ago, on a road trip to the Oregon coast, I read a life-changing book: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington. I'm a true believer in serendipi...
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Elizabeth Mitchell's myth-busting Liberty’s Torch--a Best Book of the Month for July--is a hoot of a story packed with entertaining cameos by Victor Hugo, Ulysses Grant, Thomas Edison and more. At center stage is the maddeningly egotisti...
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A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart. Flash forward twenty years.... m...
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People persist in believing things
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Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get more than 40% Off Select Top Security Cameras Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is three books in the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga by Sarah Lark and D.W. Lovett ...
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Pottermore is running a 25% off sale on Harry Potter ebooks from now until July 31st. The 25% off sale price applies to the first book in the series, as well as collections for books 1-3 and the complete collection of all seven ebooks. T...
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USC Online has created an infographic called, “The Five Laws of Library Science,” which explores five principles which can help guide the practices of librarians. According to the graphic, almost 2.5 million public library b...
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‘Madame de Pompadour’ by Francois Boucher, 1756, As many of you who regularly check in with Book Patrol know, the representation of the book in art is one of the cornerstones of our foundation. Over at the British Library’s Collect...
