Tag: books
member name: Chris Steib
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . . more
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May 20, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
How many of the books on your shelves have you read? If you're at all like me, that answer is somewhere between "not many" and "I dunno." And like other self-proclaimed literary . . . more
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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 . . . more
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April 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
The Sony Reader, some have said, is a solution in search of a problem – that there's no apparent need for this technology and it is, at best, a benefit to a very narrow audience. I would argue, . . . more
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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 . . . more
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June 23, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Let's face it: as literary enthusiasts, it's hard to sneak in a few pages during work without running the risk of looking like a total slacker. And unless your favorite pasttime involves writing . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 06, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
This year, I decided to read 50 books for my New Year's Resolution . I'm a little behind schedule, staring down book #14 right now ( The Audiacity of Hope ), which I'm reading on my Sony Reader. . . . more
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June 06, 2007 12:10 AM EDT --
The Average American Male
a novel by Chad Kultgen (Harper Perennial, 2007)
They say the average male thinks about sex every eight to ten seconds – but that’s child’s play for the . . . more
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April 18, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
Just when you thought things couldn't get much tougher for the publishing industry, the paper predecessors to forthcoming film adaptations may have begun taking a backseat to their own treatments. . . . more
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February 06, 2007 02:54 PM EST --
ATTENTION GATHER POETS: Void is now accepting submissions to our contests through Gather.com. Publish your "worst love poem" to the group VOID MAGAZINE CONTESTS (voidcontests.gather.com). Best . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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). . . . more
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