How many have YOU read?
I've read just one and many of the others weren't even on my radar screen. Perhaps I should turn in my cards that claim I'm a Readers' Advisor......
What I'm Reading: Audiobook Reviews Round-Up
10 hours ago
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Day It All Changed
Internet Archive just announced a project that might change the face of publishing and reading by making digital books available on all formats--computers, eReaders, etc.
This is gonna be huge, folks! (And remember, you read about it here first!)
This is gonna be huge, folks! (And remember, you read about it here first!)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Stieg Larsson sees off celebrity biographies on Super Thursday
Super Tuesday was this past October 6 in the U.K. and on that day 600 new hardcover books hit the book shelves, including Steig Larsson's third and final book The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
So sad that this will be his last, but it seems to be doing quite well in early sales.
So sad that this will be his last, but it seems to be doing quite well in early sales.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Interview with Judy Blume
The goddess of YA literature was interviewed on the occasion of Banned Books Week. She's still going strong and her lines at ALA this summer were lengthy and enthusiastic.
Monday, October 05, 2009
The Vook: A Picture Book, but the Pictures Move
September 30, 2009, 10:00 pm
The Vook: A Picture Book, but the Pictures Move
By Motoko Rich
In a book-bending experiment combining film and prose, Simon & Schuster and Vook, a multimedia company that produces video content for books, are releasing four digital titles in which links to short video segments are seamlessly interspersed throughout the text.
These new editions, also called “vooks,” can be viewed on any browser-based device such as a laptop, net-book or desktop computer as well as the iPhone. (They can’t be read on dedicated electronic readers like Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s Reader because these devices don’t support video.)
The initial “vooks” are “The 90-Second Fitness Solution” by Pete Cerqua, a diet and exercise book aimed at women; “Return to Beauty: Old World Wisdom and Recipes for Great Skin” by Narine Nikogosian, a guide for using fruits, vegetables and other kitchen staples to make skincare products; “Promises,” a romantic novella by the best-selling author Jude Deveraux; and “Embassy,” a short thriller by Richard Doetsch.
(In the nonfiction titles, the videos will be used to demonstrate some of the practical tips in the books, such as exercises or recipes for homemade cosmetics. And in the fiction, the videos will enhance or even advance the plots and scene descriptions.
“It is not instead of or replacing our role as a traditional publisher,” said Ellie H. Hirschhorn, chief digital officer at Simon & Schuster. “The book publisher’s role becomes expanded to where we are becoming multi-media publishers. We need to have a portfolio of products.”
The “vooks” will be sold on the Web sites of Simon & Schuster and Vook for $6.99 apiece. Versions for the iPhones will be available in the Apple App store for a promotional price of $4.99.
The video segments were produced by Vook, a new company founded by Bradley J. Inman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of TurnHere, a company that produces author videos for publishers. Independent filmmakers that have worked for TurnHere worked on the videos that appear in the new “vooks.”
Ms. Deveraux said that she wrote the novella in six days and then worked with the filmmaker Robert Sobul to develop the video segments. “He and I went over every scene,” Ms. Deveraux said. “I had to take a little bit of scenes out to make room for the video.” She said it would be possible to read the text without watching the videos, but that readers might miss some lines of dialogue or scenery.
Judith Curr, publisher of Atria, the imprint of Simon & Schuster that is releasing the new editions, said that the authors were being paid “standard e-book royalties,” but declined to say what such royalties were. Simon & Schuster and Vook would split the net income from sales of the new editions.
The Vook: A Picture Book, but the Pictures Move
By Motoko Rich
In a book-bending experiment combining film and prose, Simon & Schuster and Vook, a multimedia company that produces video content for books, are releasing four digital titles in which links to short video segments are seamlessly interspersed throughout the text.
These new editions, also called “vooks,” can be viewed on any browser-based device such as a laptop, net-book or desktop computer as well as the iPhone. (They can’t be read on dedicated electronic readers like Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s Reader because these devices don’t support video.)
The initial “vooks” are “The 90-Second Fitness Solution” by Pete Cerqua, a diet and exercise book aimed at women; “Return to Beauty: Old World Wisdom and Recipes for Great Skin” by Narine Nikogosian, a guide for using fruits, vegetables and other kitchen staples to make skincare products; “Promises,” a romantic novella by the best-selling author Jude Deveraux; and “Embassy,” a short thriller by Richard Doetsch.
(In the nonfiction titles, the videos will be used to demonstrate some of the practical tips in the books, such as exercises or recipes for homemade cosmetics. And in the fiction, the videos will enhance or even advance the plots and scene descriptions.
“It is not instead of or replacing our role as a traditional publisher,” said Ellie H. Hirschhorn, chief digital officer at Simon & Schuster. “The book publisher’s role becomes expanded to where we are becoming multi-media publishers. We need to have a portfolio of products.”
The “vooks” will be sold on the Web sites of Simon & Schuster and Vook for $6.99 apiece. Versions for the iPhones will be available in the Apple App store for a promotional price of $4.99.
The video segments were produced by Vook, a new company founded by Bradley J. Inman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of TurnHere, a company that produces author videos for publishers. Independent filmmakers that have worked for TurnHere worked on the videos that appear in the new “vooks.”
Ms. Deveraux said that she wrote the novella in six days and then worked with the filmmaker Robert Sobul to develop the video segments. “He and I went over every scene,” Ms. Deveraux said. “I had to take a little bit of scenes out to make room for the video.” She said it would be possible to read the text without watching the videos, but that readers might miss some lines of dialogue or scenery.
Judith Curr, publisher of Atria, the imprint of Simon & Schuster that is releasing the new editions, said that the authors were being paid “standard e-book royalties,” but declined to say what such royalties were. Simon & Schuster and Vook would split the net income from sales of the new editions.
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