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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In late December, Basic Books published a book I wrote about the futures industry.
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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He learned the alphabet, upper and lower case, in two days, compiled his own spelling books, and set about reading the one book in the Tswana language, the Bible.
Equally, self-published authors are usually not represented by a third party who can best marry up book with reviewer, and, as more importantly, make decisions about which books should go out to the reviewers and which should not.
The pair have now worked on five books together, including Walliams' latest book Mr Stink, about a girl who befriends a local tramp and hides him in her garden shed to stop him being driven out of town.
Andrew Rhomberg, from book discovery site JellyBooks, talked about how they use data to help people discover books.
Drawing distinctions purely on the way that a book has been published now says more about the person making the comparison than the books they are comparing.
When a customer borrows a Kindle library book, they'll have all of the unique features they love about Kindle books, including Whispersync, which automatically synchronizes their margin notes, highlights and bookmarks, real page numbers, Facebook and Twitter integration, and more.
Visitors to the World Book Day website were given a list of 10 books and asked which they had lied about reading.
And they raise most of the money to pay for the books. (Only about a third to a half of the book funds come from matching funds provided by the national Reach Out and Read office.) The program works because it is rooted in individual responsibility: the responsible behavior of parents who, who once they understand the importance of reading to their young children, do so.
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Mark Whitacre, whose case was written about in three books ( The Informant, Rats in the Grain, and the newest book, Mark Whitacre Against all Odds) is such a person.
Ms Voss promoted the book using social networking and by asking independent reviewers, who specialise in reviewing self-published books, to write about it online.
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