Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Robert Penn Warren, pointed towards what was to come: a continuous stream of essays, usually discussing a book or books, and usually written by someone recognised as a writer, scholar or thinker of distinction.
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Weinstein Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, is donating a portion of her book revenues to the organization.
For years I have been receiving e-mail from Amazon sharing that I might be interested in a specific book because of the books I have purchased in the past.
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What I wanted from my book was something that was worth owning a physical copy of (hence, some nice big images) while also satisfying readers who wanted to dig into something for a few hours by making most of the book a diatribe about what books really are.
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Two years later, on a whim, Garan submitted a collection of her photos to Chronicle Books, which gave her a book deal.
Master storyteller, Jim Stovall, has sold over 4 million copies of this book that was turned into a movie and spawned a series of associated books and movies (one of which was co-authored by yours truly).
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Mr. Connell was the author of 19 books, including two book-length poems, a biography of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and a historically detailed novel about the Crusades, "Deus Lo Volt!"
He started Goleft.tv, a liberal Web site, writes books like In Search of Atticus Finch: A Motivational Book for Lawyers and is launching a magazine extolling plaintiff lawyers.
The author cozies up to bookstore staffers, thanking those who sell more than 20 copies of his books with a mention in the acknowledgements section of his next book.
In the same way, there may be a road to a niche audience in the creation of artistic versions of current books as a means to keep the printed book alive.
"A book doesn't have to be expensive to be appealing, and a lot of books that are expensive are not appealing, " he said.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will soon launch a subscription-based book service, charging a monthly fee for access to a library of e-books.
Visitors to the World Book Day website were given a list of 10 books and asked which they had lied about reading.
Rikin Gandhi, another researcher, has been experimenting with a combination of mobile phones and educational comic books that would allow users to get voice annotations to a book by pressing key combinations into a phone.
Though they are an improvement on a computer screen, e-book readers remain crude simulacra of books.
As digital books have become a larger part of book-selling revenue, the issue of who owns the digital rights to older titles has become increasingly contentious because many older publishing contracts don't specify them.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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The irony that being a book lover would be a handicap for someone in the business of books is not lost on me, by the way.
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If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in Chinua Achebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
That kind of thing needn't be confined to PCs: You might order a book made up of six chapters on Russian stamps from six different books, or a CD with 12 tracks you specify, or a pair of pants cut to your measurements.
At a book-signing party, she sits next to a pile of his books.
Apple's influence helped prompt the U.S. Justice Department in April to sue the device maker and a handful of book publishers for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for e-books.
Amazon Prime members also get access to unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes and access to tens of thousands of books to borrow for free, as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates from a Kindle device.
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Legendary science fiction author David Gerrold contemplates the future of the e-book as a medium unto itself, separate from the books that precede it.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, reckons e-books will represent about 6% of consumer book sales in North America by 2013, up from 1.5% last year (see chart).
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"There was a time when second-hand book sellers in book towns were first of all selling books and secondly selling the experience of browsing, " explained Mr Turpin.
In the library, where weekly workshops, book clubs and talks are held, is a selection of beautiful Taschen coffee table books and must-reads including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington's autobiography.
At Esbooks, a Japanese book Web site set up last November, 93% of people who bought books have chosen to pick them up at 7-Eleven instead of having them home-delivered.
Another federal judge in California ordered a man, Gonzalez Rogers, to read books and write book reports as part of his sentence related to charges of attempting to sell grenade launchers.
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One of my favorite books is the book True Enough: Living in a Post Fact Society, by Farhad Manjoo.
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