Tag: void magazine
member name: Chris Steib
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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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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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October 23, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Here's a quickie for those interested in the slow, painful death of the printed word: Jeff Gomez, author of the forthcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , is talking the talk . . . 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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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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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . . more
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October 16, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
In book-to-film news, AOL Movies posted a new trailer for the Coen brothers' forthcoming adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic No Country for Old Men. I have little to add to the trailer except . . . 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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October 14, 2007 10:48 PM EDT --
Just weeks before Amazon.com is set to reveal their eBook solution to gadget-crazy nerds everywhere, Sony has sent to the market this little piggy, the PRS-505 generation-two Reader. The perceived . . . more
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January 29, 2007 10:16 AM EST --
Others may have said it to you before, but rarely, I assure you, with such steadfast and sincere admiration. Perhaps you’ve heard it after a night of karaoke, or when tinkering unknowingly with a . . . more
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February 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
The good people at the Association of American Publishers announced today the book sales figures for 2006, showing that the industry dropped by a slim 0.2%, down to $10.03 billion from $10.04 billion in . . . more
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August 16, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
I HAD the PLEASURE of meeting with Jo Umans (Executive Director) and Denise Bell (Director of Development) a few weeks ago over coffee to discuss Behind the Book as a potential beneficiary. . . . more
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August 30, 2007 01:39 PM EDT --
I caught up earlier today with New York-based author Clay McLeod Chapman, who is both a very talented writer and a very good friend of mine. Author of rest area and miss corpus, and creator of the totally-kick-ass . . . more
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February 05, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
When the famous gambler Canada Bill visited Baton Rouge in the late 1880s, he searched all over town for action until eventually coming across a Faro game in the back of a barber shop. When his friend . . . more
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August 31, 2006 02:43 PM EDT --
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
$2 RADIO AND VOID MAGAZINE ANNOUNCE "GET LIT 2006"
FREE event to feature music & literature, benefiting local literacy nonprofit Behind the Book . . . more
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