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Another College Student Not Thrilled with eBooks
Now THIS Is Good News A woman after my own heart. I hadn’t thought of this before, but her reasons for sticking with real live books make perfect sense to me!
James Cameron Is Writing an Avatar Prequel
You Had to See This Coming … If you’re one of the two people on the planet who hasn’t seen Avatar yet, then you might not be interested in knowing that the famed director is writing a novel that will answer all those unanswered questions, serving as the prequel to Avatar. Can you say NYT best-seller?
Building the World’s Biggest Book Club
A New Twist on a Book Club Is bigger better? You be the judge. Check out the world’s biggest book club and the woman behind the throne!
Archaeologists Link Ancient City Wall to Biblical Account
New Archaeological Find from Solomon’s Era The archaelogist hails the find as "the first time that a structure from that time has been found that may correlate with written descriptions of Solomon’s building in Jerusalem." The more they dig, the more the Bible is shown to be true. Keep on digging!
Barnes and Noble to Launch Tikatok Children’s Publishing Website
Get ‘Em While They’re Young It seems we can now feed the inner author in even the youngest among us. B & N’s launch of a children’s site is the latest entry into the world of self-publishing. And to think I just drew pictures, wrote captions, and stapled the pages together in MY early author days . . .
Say No More: The Banned Words of 2010
A New Way to Say It? We editors are always on the lookout for overused words—words that would be far better replaced with synonyms. Take a look at the just-released list of words that have done their duty in 2009 and need to be edited out (or so they say).
Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100
The Loss of a True Hero Maybe you’ve never heard of Miep Gies, but without her we might never have read the diary of Anne Frank. She hid Anne’s family and rescued Anne’s diary. Miep passed away on January 11 at age 100. Thank you, Miep, for preserving and sharing a piece of literary history with us.
Five Questions to Start the (Still) New Year
Staying with the Times I may now be falling in that "older American" category (I’m 51 and trust me, I still just want to look at catalogs), but in order to market our books to these new generations with new technlogy, we need to keep up with the times. Five quick questions to ask about your marketing. —Linda Taylor
Using Menu Psychology to Entice Diners
Editing Comes to Restaurant Menus—Who Knew? Restaurants around the country are feverishly revising their menus. Pounded by the recession, they are hoping that some magic combination of prices, adjectives, fonts, type sizes, ink colors and placement on the page can coax diners into spending a little more money. You editors out there will be amazed! —Linda Taylor
Seattle Named America’s Most Literate City in 2009
So Where Does Your City Rank? Central Connecticut State University has released the annual list of America’s Most Literate Cities. Click on the link in the article for the complete list. Criteria include newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources. —Linda Taylor
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