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In his 2010 interview with SciFiNow, Banks agreed that digital books would eventually supplant physical books—but definitely from a perspective born of the 1950s. “I can imagine, I suppose, having bought a book and not having the physical thing, but I always like to have the thing itself,” he remarked. “So if there was some sort of package where I could buy the book and get the eBook then definitely. I mean it saves space when you’re going on holiday, taking one slim thing that’s got loads on it. So yeah, I really do, I mean I can read a lot off my iPhone, and it’s not that bad. I can’t see myself buying an iPad because I’ve got too many bloody Apple macs already.”
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Christian Science Monitor Do kids today shy away from challenging books? Christian Science Monitor “[R]esearch shows that as young readers get older, they are not moving to more complex books,” reports NPR's Lynn Neary.
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Why Amazon Wants to Sell Books and Broccoli Businessweek Bezos is betting customers will combine their grocery orders with selections from among Amazon's 500,000-plus product offerings, such as movies, books, video games, and motor oil.
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A bad loan and high expenses got the historic bookstore in financial trouble.
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With our column, Forewords, we let readers know the latest book news about some of the web team's most-anticipated upcoming releases across the genres — just as the projects are announced! RETURNING FAVORITE ...
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Book News: Sales Of Orwell's '1984' Spike After NSA Revelations NPR (blog) The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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Shirley Jackson is among the most popular 20th century American writers, whose novels and short stories remain popular.
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Book Board members who have participated in selecting titles for our June post are John Hill, Ellen Lupton, Stephanie Murg, Phil Patton, and Norman Weinstein. Highlights include two volumes from a series profiling remarkable women in design, a reissue (and reconsideration) of a title on the work of Nazi architect Albert Speer, three books on California’s design scene from the 1930s to the present, and a new look at sustainable fashion.
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NPR Sneak Preview: 5 Books To Look Forward To This Summer NPR My summer reading preferences are so particular they have, at times, stopped me from reading at all. I need a romance for a train trip — for obvious reasons.
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If you're writing nonfiction, or want to break in, you'll be energized by the possibilities suggested for you in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction. The book encompasses the whole of nonfiction – not just essay, ...
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Book review: 'Cormac McCarthy's House' Washington Post Embodied in such novels as “All the Pretty Horses” and “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy's blood-soaked universe of violence, dust and poetry provides rich terrain for critical activity, and the...
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"We Give Books have launched this year’s Read for My Summer program, an initiative that fights summer brain drain by encouraging children to read throughout the months typically associated with school vacation. We Give Books’ Read for My Summer campaign offers a free online library of books assembled especially for children up to age 10. To add to the experience, Read for My Summer will spotlight one special book each week, bringing it to life with fun and engaging activities for kids and reading tips for parents."
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Book News: Illinois School Board Restores 'Perks Of Being A Wallflower' NPR The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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School asks kids to trade toy guns for books, prizes. Good idea?
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Writing books for children has never been as easy as it is in the digital age. And, writing books that make children say, “wow” is even easier. Below are seven tips to impressing young readers ...
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New Yorker How much of the books will we see next year on Game of Thrones? io9 The first two seasons of Game of Thrones were pretty straightforward: one season, one book. But season three covered a big chunk of George R.R.
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Critically acclaimed novelist Barbara Kingsolver (pictured) reviewed Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves this week at the New York Times' Sunday Book Review. In her essay about the book, she ...
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Self-published titles accounted for over a fifth of crime, science fiction, romance and humour ebooks sold in UK in 2012 (Self-published ebook sales reach 20% of genre market - The Guardian http://t.co/wIOhEpY8lp...
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Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website. The book marked its 60th anniversary on June 6 amid a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance.
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Books for Africa gets $600000 to ship 1 million books Pioneer Press Books for Africa, based in St.
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NPR Book News: Iain Banks, Genre-Defying Author, Dies NPR The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. The Scottish novelist Iain Banks died on Sunday, according to his publisher.
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The independent Toronto publisher handled such authors as Maeve Binchy, Barry Callaghan and John Brady.
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