Tag: Google

News & Notes — 1/02/16

News & Notes — 1/02/16

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News New Conservation Effort Aims to Protect Papa’s Papers (NPR) With Cuba now more open to Americans, an effort is underway to preserve Hemingway’s papers… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/17/15

News & Notes – 10/17/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2015 Man Booker Prize goes to Marlon James for A Brief History of Seven Killings. (Man Booker Prize website) You can read an interview with James… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon plans to publish fanfic — and pay royalties to both the original rights… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/11/13

News & Notes — 5/11/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: TechCrunch broke the news that Microsoft is considering offering $1 billion for Nook.  The… Read more »

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News & Notes — 3/30/13

News & Notes — 3/30/13

Worth Reading:  “What If the Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back?” (MC Siegler, TechCrunch) “A new candidate for “World’s Worst Index” — and some indexing advice” for self-publishers, from Michael N. Marcus.  As an indexer, the indexes shown here make me both cringe and laugh hysterically.  This is why… Read more »

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