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08/20/2008
How Dumb Can You Get? (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)
Is the young book reader going extinct? Does it matter?
08/20/2008
PeopleJam.com Partners With Barnes & Noble to Launch Online Video Series - "Why I Read" Short-form Videos Focus on ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
PeopleJam.com, the leading online resource for self-improvement, today announced the launch of a new online video series, produced in partnership with Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), called "Why I Read." The series, which will start with seven episodes, focuses on the value and impact reading can have on personal fulfillment.
08/19/2008
Summer Sanity: Books' new chapter: Online rental (The Star-Ledger)
Summer Sanity recently looked at ways bookworms can get their hands on new tomes without paying the high price. Reader Kit Dupuis wrote with her favorite way: a service called Boomswim (bookswim.com).
08/19/2008
AudibleKids.com and Parenting magazine team up to encourage kids to listen (InternetRetailer.com)
Hoping to inspire kids to read more by encouraging them to listen to books, Parenting magazine has announced a deal with online audiobook seller Audible Inc. to promote spoken books to children at AudibleKids.com.
08/19/2008
Love Gives Back: Avon Books, Romance Industry Leader, Introduces Dynamic New Web Presence (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Today, Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is proud to announce the launch of a dynamic new website at http://www.avonbooks.com.
08/19/2008
E-books gather momentum (The Courier Mail)
WITH improving technology and broadening platforms, e-books are beginning to make their presence felt in the literary marketplace.
08/19/2008
What corporate America is reading (Erie Times-News)
800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for July:
08/19/2008
Foreigners love to buy Chinese books (People's Daily)
The Olympic Games are firing up a Chinese culture fever, and bookstores in Beijing are greeting a lot more foreign readers than before, according to Beijing Daily. The most obvious change is the increase in sales of many foreign-language books. Deputy Director of the marketing and management centre in the Beijing Book Building Zhang Zheng said: "Sales of foreign-language books this month have ...
08/18/2008
COLUMN: Poet's books are captivating gems (The Times-News)
Some books stay with us long after the final chapter because of the characters so richly drawn, we feel bereft when their story is finished and we are no longer living with them. Some books hook us with the plot - one of those 'can't-put-it-down-'til-I-know-what-happens' kind of story.
08/18/2008
Plan to label children's books with film-style age bands causes a stir (BBC News)
A plan to indicate what age group children's books are most suitable for causes a stir in the book world.
