The first Literature Prize will be awarded in March 2014 for books published between January and December 2013.
In late December, Basic Books published a book I wrote about the futures industry.
Some excellent books published during the year fell in the grey area where business and management overlap with economics.
In recent years, there have been numerous books published that show how our behavior is governed by non-conscious drivers.
Marr has also presented a number of history programmes along with his politics show, and has had five books published.
There are somewhere between 600, 000 and 1, 000, 000 books published every year in the US alone, depending on which stats you believe.
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Mr. Jobs disclosed that e-books published by Bertelsmann AG's Random House Inc.
Currently, the site largely features authors and books published by the owners.
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Room to Read measures every dollar against number of schools, libraries, books published and distributed and the time it takes to accomplish each task.
Those numbers are astonishing (harken back to the 11, 000 books published in 1950), and their magnitude explains why eBook users have difficulty finding the next book to read.
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He authored over 250 books published in 10 different languages.
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In the last list, Cookson - who has had more than 100 books published - was at fifth place, but new figures suggest the love affair with UK readers could be over after plummeting to number 11.
Employees at Augsburg Fortress, a publisher in Minneapolis that sells books published for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, lost 30% to 60% of their pensions when the publisher, which claimed the pension was a church plan, terminated it in 2010.
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There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but fewer assessing the relationship between Muslim tradition and the challenges that modern science presents to it today.
According to Bowker's Books in Print database, which tracks print and e-books published and distributed in the United States, 164 such works have been written so far - they either directly address the event or use it as a peg to hang greater literary concerns about love, life and loss.
The series took more than a decade to travel to the U.S., where the first four books were published by a small press, Open City Books, and sold modestly.
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The team at iMerit is also working to digitize books that were published before books were all digitally available.
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These books were published too late for their authors to weigh the consequences of the new intifada.
With hundreds of thousands of books being published in English every year, the variety and granularity is staggering.
Two that Senkut has pursued are changing the way books are published and developing inexpensive, fast, and reliable 3D imaging.
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In 2008, nearly 480, 000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from close to 375, 000 in 2007.
Two new books, published at the same time by the same publisher and with the same editor, try to examine why.
Rackham, a British illustrator of children's books, published two versions of "Visit"--a limited, numbered and signed edition, and a cloth-bound, first trade edition.
In this apocalyptic world there are no brick and mortar book stores, public libraries have lost all funding and closed, all books are published in a digital format, newspapers are written by untrained hacks with no editing taking place, and book signings then would be dimly remembered.
Some of the best selling e-books at the store are self-published books by local authors, Mayersohn says, who print the books at the store and give lectures and talks.
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Michael Shatzkin, who consults with publishers about digital books, says the iPad might make self-published books even more competitive with books from the big publishing houses.
So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
Some of his books were first published in the freer countries of Latin America.
Eventually, 59 books would be published in the original run, with other affiliated works appearing too.
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Eight published books later, I am startled that an institution like Forbes would allow me to write for them.
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