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Links for 2009-1-22

January 22, 2009 in Link Posts, Misc

  • LibraryThing: LibraryThing and CIG—the deal!
    “LibraryThing has just partnered up with Cambridge Information Group, which owns Bowker, AquaBrowser, ProQuest, Serials Solutions and RefWorks.”
    (tags: books businessdeals)
  • Bookcamp: The Books Are All Right
    “As the death watch continues for the publishing business and perhaps even the book itself, a group of writers, technologists, publishers, agents, designers, booksellers, and social architects convened in London for BookCamp, a one-day thinking session (bookish experimentation) about what the future of the written word might be.” Death watch? Seriously? Still, book convention. Awesome!
    (tags: books)
  • Ken Lopez – Bookseller: Uncorrected Proofs/Advance Copies, Introduction
    And even more about collecting ARCs.
    (tags: books publishingworld research)
  • Collecting Uncorrected Bound Proofs
    More about collecting ARCs.
    (tags: books publishingworld research)
  • Advance Reading Copy and Advance Reader’s Edition | Used Books Blog
    Basic info, including some details about collecting ARCs! Very helpful and well-written.
    (tags: books publishingworld research)
  • Naomi Alderman: How the web is undermining reading | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    “For as long as humans have been developing new technology, we’ve been worrying that our inventions will cause our brains to decay.” I don’t necessarily agree that reading books is a dying pastime, but it’s an interesting article nonetheless.
    (tags: books worrywarts)
  • Gaining Converts – 1/19/2009 – Publishers Weekly
    “There is an e-book rush out there. Simon & Schuster, whose e-book sales quadrupled last year, is adding 5,000 titles to its list, while Random House, recording a 400% year-on-year increase in e-book sales, is doubling its offerings to 15,000 titles. And no wonder—the Association of American Publishers reported that total e-book sales ending September 2008 surged 51% over the same period in 2007.” Yay!
    (tags: books ebooks publishingworld)
  • The E-Galley Cometh? – 1/19/2009 – Publishers Weekly
    ‘Ron Charles, senior editor for the Washington Post Book World, believes paper galleys, at least at his newspaper, are pretty safe. “We haven’t received any electronic galleys so far, and I don’t sense any enthusiasm for them here,” said Charles. “In a way, that’s a shame, because we discard the vast majority of galleys and books that are sent our way—about 150 a day. We review 15 a week. The math is cruel.”’
    (tags: books ebooks publishingworld)
  • Girls Write Now Raise $27,000 – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
    “Founded in 1998, the New York City-based group pairs women writers with female high school students in a special writing mentoring program. The group’s holiday fundraising goal is $30,000, and they have raised $27,000 with two weeks left in the campaign.”
    (tags: books misc)
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What’s “Beach Read”?

Beach reads are books you can read at the beach. It's what I'm using instead of "chick lit" or "women's lit," because I hate those terms. Yeah, books labeled "chick lit" tend to be fluffier than some other books, but that doesn't mean they're only for women nor that they're not worth reading (which is what I think some people assume when they see a book labeled "chick lit"). Anyone can have fun reading a beach book, so I'm using that term instead.

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January 23, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Louise

That last link was really interesting – the one with the women writers and the highschool students. But I also liked the Death Watch link. Personally, I haven’t gotten around to audio books or e-books myself yet, but it is definitely true, that I hear about them all the time and at my library they have looooong waiting lists for almost all their audio books, which are now taking up way more shelf-space than they did just a few years ago. So no doubt there is something going on there :) But I do not hope that the real book will die!

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