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Experts continue to warn about the implications of the new Google deal for “copyright orphans”; a museum of storytelling is planned in Oxford; Albert Camus’s son is fighting the “Panthéonization” of his father; the troubled Sun-Times Media Group has a new head; Apple is keeping mum on whether it...
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Critics have charged that the new Google deal still lacks pricing and privacy protections; a slew of award-winning authors are in the running for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award; an online authors’ directory now has a Scribd tie-in; the ALA is at work on its annual Library Design Sho...
Priscilla
Priscilla
Nabokov is one of the greatest writers of all time! Leave the man to rest amongst pale fire..
Fri at 9:34am
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A literary collective has revamped its online magazine; preorders for Sony’s new wireless e-reader are already causing delays; agent Irene Goodman is raising money for charity by auctioning off her critical services; a new Web site examines how libraries can stay relevant in the digital age; and o...
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Mystery maven Otto Penzler will publish an eponymous imprint next year; new technology allows e-books to be converted en masse to the popular ePub standard; cuts to library funding in Massachusetts have met with protests; Aussie booksellers are miffed at the persistence of import regulations; and...
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Plans for a PBS debate yesterday fizzled after a Google Books rep failed to show; the Writers Union of Canada is opposing the revised book-scanning settlement; Smashwords has inked a global distribution deal with a “cloud-computing” firm; the latest ranking of public libraries is out this wee...
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Most foreign-language works have been dropped from the Google Books settlement; the Open Book Alliance has cried foul on the new deal; Sony is rolling out themed e-readers for the holidays; a library in Phoenix is going shopping after collecting a massive late fine; and other news. [More....]
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Advocates for the visually impaired say the Kindle needs improvements; the submissions pool for a new literary journal is an online forum; staff at the Sonoma County Library system will take an unpaid furlough over the holidays; the musty smell of old books contains useful data for...
Jerasimos
Jerasimos
hmmm...sounds like something sherlock holmes might have quipped about. seriously though, that's quite intriguing. book smells give up clues to past...hmmm.
November 13 at 10:50am
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Amazon is re-releasing a trio of fiction titles originally published through BookSurge; Rupert Murdoch doesn’t want Google to keep him from charging for digital content; a British university press is hoping to expand its appeal with a new imprint; a public library in California is trying out a “...
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A new tool lets “green” publishers stamp their eco-savings right into books; Amazon’s “Kindle for PC” app is live; Reed Elsevier suddenly has a new CEO; Andrew Sullivan’s print-on-demand project is steaming ahead; Reading, Pennsylvania may not lose its library branches after all; and other news....
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Germany is looking for a way to handle the digitization of copyright “orphans”; an English teacher has been suspended for assigning an explicit story; Amazon is wooing literary agents; squabbling has broken out among a trio of indie bookstores in Wisconsin; Waterstone’s focus on the bottom line ...
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The Miami Book Fair International kicked off yesterday with a slightly leaner schedule; some of Britain’s university presses are ailing, some are banding together; B&N customers looking to preorder the Nook will have to wait a little longer than expected; amendments to the USA Patriot Act will f...
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For thousands of would-be novelists, November is NaNoWriMo; the New York Observer is getting a new editor; McSweeney’s is giving readers a taste of its long-awaited newspaper project; the Espresso Book Machine is gaining ground; a new study looks at how U.S. ...
Jean McBride
Jean McBride
go ebooks cheaper easier and world exposier
November 8 at 12:31pm
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LA’s inkSlam Poetry Festival is underway; the glut of Penguin merchandise has some concerned that the publisher is forgetting its radical roots; U.K. publishers are urging government action against digital piracy; zombie literature refuses to die; and other news. [More....]
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The Internet Archive is offering libraries a legal scanning solution for copyright “orphans”; Hyperion has a new editor in chief; San Diego is pressing ahead with its long-delayed central library plans; a new Web site is testing the profitability of poetry; this spring’s Beirut39 festival will ...
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Poets & Writers In the latest installment of Writers Recommend, poet Dara Wier explains the ways in which her childhood spent south of New Orleans "helps with poetry's desires." How has your childhood hometown influenced your work?

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In this online exclusive we've asked authors who have been featured in our pages to share books, art, music, writing prompts, films—anything and everything—that has inspired them in their writing. We see this as a place for writers to turn to for ideas that will help feed their creative process.
Arthur
Arthur
My hometown (New Orleans) gave me a sense of a natural world of an otherness that (to a New Orleanian) did/does not exist outside of that inevitable city at the Mississippi's mouth. The city's allure was inspiring to me as a child...the music one heard while walking the streets, the aromatic smells thru raggedy screen doors of shotgun houses...... Read Morehurricane winds bending stately trees at odd angles...the humidity and heat of sultry afternoons...morning monsoons...sky-filling swarms of mosquito hogs (certainly not "dragonflies")...REAL sandwiches and snowballs...the people's language...the colors...Mardi Gras Day...Growing up in NOLA's gumboed society provided me with a world view that tolerates and even encourages la differance...
November 4 at 2:24pm