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Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: University, Literature, Book Marketing, Professors, Textbooks, Yale University, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Reading, Elizabeth Strout, Motherless Brooklyn, Black Swan Green, Books News

The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.

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Spotted Reading Publicly

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

We all have different ways of discovering books, and spotting them being read in public is just one. At Huffington Post, we are very interested in what people are reading around the country.

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The Future of Reading: Learning From the Past to Thrive in the Future

Steve Haber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Google, Ereaders, Internet, Open Formats, Boston Book Festival, Book Publishing, Books, Public Libraries, Digital Content, Future of Reading, Mark Twain, Reading, Sony, Digital Divide, Ebooks, Books News

To truly open the future of books and reading, consumers must be freed from proprietary devices and formats. We owe it to those who came before us to bring access to as many as possible.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Best Books, Editors' Picks, Books, Slidepoll, Huffington Post Readers, Reading, Reader Picks, Favorite Books, Books News

We know that the Huffington Post reader is really smart, and since you're on the Books page, we know that you like to read, so it made sense that when...

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Losing My Literary Virginity

Allison Hill | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Sexual Awakening, The Hotel New Hampshire, Reading, Sexuality, Literary Virginity, John Irving, Books, Sex in Books, Books News

My sexual awakening came at the hands of John Irving, or his words anyway.

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Can Dogs Teach Kids To Read?

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact

Read More: Literacy, Sit. Stay. Read., Library, Kids, Volunteer, Reading, R.E.a.D., Dogs, Teach, Impact News

Know a child who needs a little help with learning how to read? CNN reports that man's best friend could be a great teacher for kids too. It sounds i...

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How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

David Rothman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Libraries, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Reading, Digital Libraries, Literacy, Students, Epub, Digital Library System, Books, Ebooks, E-Books, Ereaders, Teleread, Books News

Suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.

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So Did I Ever Tell You About the Squirrel?

Joy Preble | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Debut Authors, Writers, Advice to New Authors, New Author, Reading, Writing, Squirrels, Authors, Books, New Authors, Books News

Debut author life is full of false starts and hesitations. Mostly you have no idea in hell what you're doing. You race across streets -- metaphorically speaking -- hoping you won't crash head first into someone's sedan.

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Talk to Me

Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Jodi Picoult, Reading, Writer, Book Promoting, Author, Writers, Book Promotion, Jon Stewart, Writing, Authors, Oprah, Books, Readers, Philip Roth, Books News

Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.

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What You Missed at "Naked Girls Reading"

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Reading, Home News

Naked girls. Reading banned books. And yeah, there's a slideshow. ...

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New Literacy and the Commoditization of Content

Celeste Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Texting, Reading, Book Publishing, Vook, Literacy, Online Reading, Branding, Facebook, New Literacy, Publishing, Internet, Stanford, Books, Blogging, Books News

Perhaps product innovations, like books with video, are only as successful as they pertain to customer intimacy, and the future of books isn't inventing a better book but better meeting readers' needs.

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The Power of Books in Prison

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Prison Writing, Writers, Reading, Viktor Frankl, Authors, Crime and Punishment, Prison, Reading in Prison, Books, Stephen Jay Gould, Jail, Montaigne, Books News

The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.

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In the Library

Alan Black | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Sharing, People, Reading, Libraries, Public Libraries, Books News

Libraries are about people. Not books. Although without them, we would have no libraries. When we gather under the sanctuary of a roof to read together, we know we belong.

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Reading ... the Old Fashioned Way

Ivy Pochoda | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Novels, Novelists, Kindle, Bookstores, Reading, Books News

We have grown distant from our words. Our books are not physical objects, but rather bits and bytes on a screen. Reading aloud makes words tangible and gives them a presence.

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How Many Books Do You Read a Week?

Carole Baron | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Recommendations, Carolina De Robertis, Publishing, Editing, Reading, Book Publishing, John Grisham, Knopf, The Invisible Mountain, Books, Publisher, Editor, Books News

My only regret sometimes is that I read so many unpublished works that are submitted to me as an editor, that I don't have time to read all the published books that interest me. But I try, how I try...

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Women's National Book Association to Launch Reading Group Month

Joan Gelfand | Posted 10.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading, Southern Festival of Books, Book Clubs, Reading Groups, Books, Slow Movement, Book Groups, National Reading Group Month, Books News

About a year ago, I caught book group fever. An avid reader, I had never been part of a book group. I listened wistfully to friends' recounting of lively conversations, envying the breadth of titles discussed by readers.

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Mr. Rochester Is England's Most Romantic Character

Telegraph | Penny Vincenzi | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: England, Romantic Characters, Sexy Book Characters, Romantic Books, Reading, Wuthering Heights, Books, Mr. Rochester, Charlotte Bronte, English Books, Favorite Books, Books News

[I]t comes as no surprise to me that when surveyed by Mills and Boon, the nation's readers voted Charlotte Bronte's Mr Rochester the most romantic cha...

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Consequences For Our Actions

Kenneth Kales | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Independent Publishers, Reading, Book Publishing, Future of Publishing, Books, Booksellers, Frankfurt Book Fair, Printers, Books News

If you don't love the book, how can you sell it? My passion for each and every book is in part why I am told by others how successful I am at garnering so much media attention for Kales' publications.

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Book Club Activists Unite!

Linda Mason | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Charity, Half the Sky, Women, Reading, Pakistan, Activism, Book Clubs, Books, Empowering Women, Fundraising, Books News

Many Americans know about the inspiring book clubs of female media celebrities like Arianna Huffington and Oprah Winfrey. Most have not heard about unsung book club heroes like Rufi Natarajan.

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Does The Brain Like e-Books?

The New York Times | The Editors | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Debate, Brain, Human Brain, Books, E-Books, Electronic Reading, Reading, Digital Reading, Books News

Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading exper...

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Savouring the Book

Anne Bramley | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Food Revolution, Reading, Writing, Reading Cookbooks, Books, Cookbook Season, Cookbooks, Ereaders, Books News

While some may prefer to curl up with an actual novel, the food revolution has created a peculiar beast who prefers to savour cookbooks as if they were novels.

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

David Finkle | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vooks, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Piers Plowman, Reading, Truman Capote, Video Books, William Langland, George Eliot, Vivien Leigh, Henry James, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Trollope, Books News

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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Book Browsing Trends: Online Samples Increase Sales

Reuters | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Reading, Sample Chapters, Book Browsing, Books, Book Sales, Readers, Book Trends, Frankfurt Book Fair, Books News

FRANKFURT--(Business Wire)--At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, new data on how readers have sampled bookcontent online over the past 18 months points to...

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New York Review: The Blog (Preview)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Nobel, Supreme Court, Dworkin, Books, Jonathan Raban, Nyr, Italy, New York Review of Books, Blogs, Garry Wills, Blog, New York Review, Book Reviews, Hillary Clinton, Town Hall Meetings, Reading, Blogging, China, Healthcare, Books News

The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...

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