• Current News: Twitter Updates for 4/29/12

    Updated: 2012-04-30 04:05:44
    Harvard vs. Yale: Open-Access Publishing Edition, http://bit.ly/IBa1ve The New Harvard Library Open Metadata Policy, http://hvrd.me/JKRPS0 3M Launches Library E-book and E-reader Program, http://bit.ly/If2pvo Cloud Storage: A Pricing and Feature Guide for Consumers, http://bit.ly/KkWlBs Talking Open Access: Interview with LARR Editor in Chief, Philip Oxhorn, http://bit.ly/IGBLMm | Digital Scholarship |

  • Book Publishers starting with A

    Updated: 2012-04-28 01:03:26
    Join Now Why Join You are not logged in Log In Forgot Password Follow us on Twitter About Us About JacketFlap FAQ Our Blog Send Feedback Press Widgets Widget Gallery Widgets for Publishers Community People Online New Members Member Updates Search Members Member Bookshelves Blogs Blog Reader Blog List Books Just Released Books Children's Books Young Adult Books Books by Members Book Videos Book Creators Book Publishers Book Reviews Home Loading Home Publishers Book Publishers starting with A Log in to JacketFlap User Name : Password : Remember me : nbsp Forgot Password Close YA Children's Books Just Released Book Creators Events Videos Publishers Reviews Find Publishers Search : by Publisher Name Author Name Book Title Subjects Illustrator Name Today's Top Publishers Viewed by all Members

  • Monash University’s Research Data Management Strategy and Strategic Plan 2012-2015

    Updated: 2012-04-27 04:03:11
    Monash University has released its Research Data Management Strategy and Strategic Plan 2012-2015. Here's an excerpt: The Research Data Management Strategy and Strategic Plan 2012-2015 outlines an extended program of activities to holistically address technology, professional development and cultural change. The strategy takes as its starting point the following statement of intent. Monash University recognises [...]

  • Project Coordinator for Science and Data at Creative Commons

    Updated: 2012-04-27 04:02:05
    The Creative Commons is recruiting a Project Coordinator for Science and Data. Here's an excerpt from the ad: To organize, coordinate and manage projects related to data policy and governance. To perform research and analysis on data governance topics across relevant sectors—particularly for science—and communicate results and recommendations from the project via writing and related [...]

  • Modern Language Association Releases "Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media"

    Updated: 2012-04-27 04:01:22
    The Modern Language Association has released "Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media." This is the first update in 12 years. Here's an excerpt: The following guidelines are designed to help departments and faculty members implement effective evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They apply to scholars working with digital [...]

  • Current News: Twitter Updates for 4/25/12

    Updated: 2012-04-26 04:05:01
    Libraries Are Obsolete: An Oxford-Style Debate (Video, Harvard Library), http://hvrd.me/I9V4lO Life after Elsevier: Making Open Access to Scientific Knowledge a Reality, http://bit.ly/IEIWpU The OA interviews: Carlos Rossel, Publisher at the World Bank, http://bit.ly/I63wgQ Tor Books to Release Only DRM-Free E-books, http://bit.ly/JqPdot An Interview with Cameron Neylon, PLoS' New Director of Advocacy, http://bit.ly/JGVazs SOPA, PIPA and [...]

  • Head, Information Technology Services at Linda Hall Library

    Updated: 2012-04-26 04:04:31
    The Linda Hall Library is recruiting a Head, Information Technology Services. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the Director of Innovative Technologies and Library Resource Management, the Head of Information Technology Services will manage all aspects of library information technology as deployed or planned at the Library, including information technology systems, networked information [...]

  • Carol Tenopir Given Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award

    Updated: 2012-04-26 04:03:17
    Carol Tenopir has been given a Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The new SEC award program was created to honor professors from the SEC with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship. A faculty member in UT's College of Communication and Information, Tenopir is a Chancellor's Professor in the [...]

  • Digital Media Librarian at Florida International University Libraries

    Updated: 2012-04-26 04:02:05
    The Florida International University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Media Librarian. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Working within the department and with colleagues in Green Library (MMC) and Hubert Library (BBC), this librarian will have responsibility to: Acquire, coordinate, and manage video, audio, and image collections. Provide outreach services to the user community. Participate [...]

  • MIT Establishes Open Access Working Group in Response to Elsevier’s New Article Posting Policies

    Updated: 2012-04-26 04:01:45
    MIT has established an Open Access Working Group in response to Elsevier's new article posting policies. Here's an excerpt from the "New Open Access Working Group Formed: Formulating Response to Elsevier's Policy Change": The wording [of the Elsevier posting policy] is very unclear; no one is quite sure what a "systematic posting mandate" is. Duke, [...]

  • An excerpt (or two) from Mira Grant’s BLACKOUT

    Updated: 2012-04-26 00:25:14
    Chapter one of Mira Grant’s Blackout, the final book in her Newsflesh trilogy, is now available on io9! WARNING: this excerpt contains HUGE spoilers for the first two books. Proceed with caution. Today, an intrepid Newsie hacked into …

  • E-book Price-Fixing: Finding the Best Model for Publishers — and Readers

    Updated: 2012-04-25 18:50:52
    The legal controversy over Apple's efforts to use the agency model when selling books directly to its consumers offers a good opportunity to examine the benefits and costs of adopting that approach, both for online retailers and their...

  • The E-book Surge and You

    Updated: 2012-04-24 16:30:27
    My colleagues and I think that e-book sales will dominate the market by next year. Why is this significant? Well, sales of e-books continue to rise in general, despite climbing prices from publishers who are trying to offset the loss in traditional books (that is, those books printed on paper… Read more   

  • Pottermore Promises to Bring the World of Harry Potter to Life

    Updated: 2012-04-24 15:09:12
    I’m not a Potter-head. Let’s start things off by making that very clear. I do enjoy watching the films from time to time, lately in knitted envy more than anything else. I’ve read up to halfway through book five, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. My friends and I did make up paper [...]

  • Write Like You SPEAK

    Updated: 2012-04-23 15:00:24
    Derick looks at the aspects of writing as you would have spoken.

  • Brielfy Noted | Epexegetic Biographic Addenda « LRB blog

    Updated: 2012-04-20 18:24:55
    The tug of war over Joyce copyright continues. The National Library of Ireland has just released digital copies of a collection of papers bought from Alexis Léon in 2002 for €12.6 million, in response to an attempted copyright coup by Danis Rose. The NLI’s holdings are a stunning collection of Joyceana, consisting of an early read more »

  • Briefly Noted | Kobo And WHSmith To Launch 100 New Kobo Experiential Shops

    Updated: 2012-04-20 15:08:17
    Kobo Inc., a global leader in eReading, today announced plans to open new Kobo branded shops within 100 WHSmith High Street retail locations in 2012. This decision follows the successful trial of the ‘Kobo Centre’ in some of WHSmith’s larger stores. Across the United Kingdom, WHSmith stores will provide consumers with a signature Kobo experience read more »

  • Book Launch: John Henry Biggart

    Updated: 2012-04-20 09:52:31
    The Ulster Historical Foundation launches John Henry Biggart: Pathologist, Professor and Dean of Medical Faculty, Queen’s University, Belfast by Denis Biggart in the Christ Church Library* at 7pm on Tuesday 24th April 2012 with Sir Peter Froggartt as guest speaker. Light refreshments will be provided and there is parking available. RSVP: Ulster Historical Foundation, 49 read more »

  • The Good, The Bad and The Kindle

    Updated: 2012-04-18 15:00:49
    Amazon is killing it, and I mean that literally. Not only is the publishing industry suffering, but now, people's lives are being touched in a negative way. Good, bad? Wayt forward/backward? Weigh in below.

  • Marketing in the White Space: A different approach to market segmentation

    Updated: 2012-04-18 08:55:40
    By Brian Jud Maket segmentation is the process of dividing your overall sales opportunity into unique, defined, manageable groups of people. You know this as a fundamental marketing technique, but if you look at it in a new way it is even more likely to...

  • Maximize Your Trade Show Experience

    Updated: 2012-04-18 05:53:07
    By Brian Jud I have exhibited or attended each of the last 22 BookExpo America shows, and I served my time as a trade-show manager for Fortune 500 companies. I understand what makes a profitable experience at such an event. My BEA experiences have shown me...

  • My Personal Library: If the subject is too large for adult fiction, write it for children

    Updated: 2012-04-17 20:16:09
    In this newest installment about the personal libraries of TSTC Publishing staff, marketing intern Emilly Martinez discusses children’s literature, young adult fiction and postmodern books. “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.” ― Philip Pullman   What types of books do [...]

  • The Book Industry Study Group’s Making Information Pay 2012: Beyond “Business-As-Usual," The Age of Big Data

    Updated: 2012-04-13 14:36:10
    By PRESS RELEASE The Book Industry Study Group’ Making Information Pay 2012 Beyond “Business-As-Usual” The Age of Big Data http://www.bisg.org/mip May 3, 2012 | 9 am-12:30 pm McGraw-Hill Auditorium, 1221 Sixth Ave., New York, N.Y. Discount...

  • Shortlist Announced For Kerry Group Irish Novel Of The Year Award

    Updated: 2012-04-12 09:47:12
    Writers’ Week announced the shortlist for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award with a prize fund of €20,000 in Dublin on Wednesday 13th April. The shortlist comprises Kevin Barry, City of Bohane, Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz, Carlo Gébler, The Dead Eight and Belinda McKeon, read more »

  • FRACTURE The Secret Enemy Saga by Virginia McKevitt

    Updated: 2012-04-10 23:52:03
    Home FREE Templates Get Published My 1 Recommendation 200+ Free Tools Book Marketing FRACTURE The Secret Enemy Saga by Virginia McKevitt by Virginia McKevitt Georgia , USA Hi , Shelley Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my book marketing . strategies First of all , I am new at this game , so reading what other authors have done to market their books and make them successful was critical for me . Sites like yours and other experienced writers have been a tremendous help to someone such as myself . That said , here is what I have : learned The internet is a virtual marketing smorgasbord avenue . I have put my book and myself on every social media site I can find Facebook , twitter , Goodreads , She Writes , and the list continues on and on . I feel the best of these however is

  • MARRIOTT Marketing: 8 Selling Lessons Learnt as a Front Desk Clerk

    Updated: 2012-04-10 15:00:29
    Derrick breaks down selling books from his experience as a front desk clerk.

  • Self-Publishing Validation

    Updated: 2012-04-09 16:04:59
    The University of Chicago Press is going to publish next month A Naked Singularity, a 700-page debut novel that Sergio De La Pava self-published in 2008, using Xlibris. Interesting news, especially for a novel that appeared four years ago. And it’s news because? Because a “traditional” publisher, in this case… Read more   

  • Grammar Rules: Plurals an Octopus Couldn’t Handle

    Updated: 2012-04-05 15:00:21
    Have you ever wondered what the actual plural of octopus is? The answer? It depends. Don’t you hate that? Sometimes it is just too much to ask for a simple answer. English has never prided itself on its simplicity, and since English has been affected by many other languages as well, nothing is simple anymore. [...]

  • Brielfy Noted | Eason’s to close two shops and cut 25 jobs – Business News, Business – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

    Updated: 2012-04-05 09:30:26
    Around 25 jobs are to go as Irish book giant Eason’s shuts two stores and an office in Northern Ireland. The bookseller blamed declining sales for its decision to pull down the shutters in Carryduff, Co Down and Westwood Shopping Centre in west Belfast next month. It also announced the closure in June of an read more »

  • Information Should Be Free

    Updated: 2012-04-04 18:26:29
    Give it away. Give your content to the public. Don’t charge for it. It won’t matter to the sales of your books. People will want what you are saying. If they respond to your message, it doesn’t matter if they get the information free to begin with. They’re likely to… Read more   

  • I Want To Interview You!

    Updated: 2012-04-04 15:00:21
    I issue an invitation in a video to all self published authors to get to me regarding getting interviewed.

  • Writing as Thinking

    Updated: 2012-04-03 16:24:26
    Many people don’t know what they think until they write it. Their thoughts are often random impressions and vague ideas. It’s writing that gives them shape. It’s books that help shape thoughts further, and it’s a book that can give you the makings of a platform from which to further… Read more   

  • Briefly Noted | In Brief: Apple, DoJ Near E-Book Pricing Settlement – Mobiledia

    Updated: 2012-04-03 08:43:45
    This has been building for a while. The reverberations will impact on pretty much everyone. Reader, writers AND publishers: What’s Next: When the Department of Justice, Apple and associated publishers come to an eventual arrangement, its widely expected to lower e-book prices for consumers across the market. But that turn of events could be a read more »

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