Thoughts of a busy mind (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
50 books a year continued... 1: A Place Called Here (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern 2: The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book (Hardcover) by Frank Warren 3: Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings... by Kerry Miller 4: If You Could See Me Now (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern 5: The Bell Jar (Paperback) by Sylvia Plath 6: The Secret Shopper's Revenge (Paperback)...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Alex von Bidder, owner of The Four Seasons , has penned a children’s book, Wiggens Learns His Manners at the Four Seasons Restaurant , which imagines a poorly behaved dog learning the finer points of fine dining. It will publish in November complete with blurbs from Martha Stewart, Tom Brokaw, Tim Zagat, Mary Higgins Clark, and others who’ll never again have trouble scoring a last-minute...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
'Beach read' takes on new meaning Julia Keller CULTURAL CRITIC , Chicago Tribune June 14, 2009 Neil Gaiman and Elmore Leonard would seem to have little in common -- the former is a fantasy writer who wears only black, the latter is a crime writer who doesn't care about what he wears -- yet during separate appearances at last weekend's Printers Row Lit Fest, they made the same point: Beach vacations...
Katie the Scrapbook Lady (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
I'm actually typing this at 2 a.m. because I've been up late reading. This is one of the reasons I don't read as much as I would like to... because I get so into a book that I can't put it down. It's a problem I've had ever since I can remember. I'm especially fond of reading mysteries. I always have been. It used to be The Three Investigators and Nancy Drew when I was young. I would stay up late with...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
The store offers best-selling books from horror master Stephen King, as well as from other authors, such as Dan Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, and Chelsea Handler.
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN) , CBS Corp 'B' (CBS) Several times this year, I used Scribd to post my presentations on the web. It was extremely easy to use. Moreover, there were some helpful metrics (that is, the number of viewers), sharing tools and publishing options (such as PDFs, PowerPoints, etc). Well, as should be no surprise, Scribd is getting lots of traction, attracting about 60 million...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Book publisher Simon & Schuster will offer 5,000 of its titles for sale digitally via document-sharing site Scribd.com , opening a fresh chapter in Amazon's epic struggle to dominate the e-book market with its Kindle e-reader. Best-selling Simon & Schuster editions from scribes like Dan Brown, Steven King, and Mary Higgins Clark will sell on Scribd's site, while thousands of other titles will...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
In another sign that book publishers are looking to embrace alternatives to Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book store, Simon & Schuster has agreed to sell digital copies of its books on Scribd.com, a popular document-sharing Web site. Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS, plans to announce Friday that it will make digital editions of about 5,000 titles available for purchase on the site, including...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Bucking a spate of trend pieces about piracy and digital texts, Simon & Schuster has reached an agreement to sell e-books in the online reading site, Scribd. They will sell 5,000 titles in all, from authors like Stephen King , Dan Brown , Mary Higgins Clark , and Chelsea Handler . The books can be browsed and purchased at this link . Scribd counts 60 million readers, and the Scribd Store allows...
Mobile Tech Today (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
CBS may be the last major Hulu.com holdout, but one of its divisions is among the first to embrace e-books. The company's Simon & Schuster unit announced Friday a deal with Scribd to sell e-books on the new Scribd Store. Scribd launched its e-commerce publishing marketplace in May as a complement to its free content-sharing platform. Scribd boasts more than 60 million readers a month. "Simon...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Mobylives discusses the new war between the Kindle and those antiquated things called books. From the story... In a startling and possibly revolutionary development, one of New York’s giant conglomerate publishers has finally taken a stand against Amazon.com: Simon & Schuster will announce today that it has struck a deal to sell its ebooks on Scribd.The giant publisher will make some 5,000...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Stephen King, Dan Brown and Mary Higgins Clark are among the authors of the 5,000 e-titles that will Simon & Schuster will offer through Scribd. Currently known as the YouTube of text, Scribd lets people post their own contributions They also can embed them in blogs—everything from sample book chapters to recipes—and traffic is said to [...]
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com By BRAD STONE writing n The New York Times. Published: June 11, 2009 In another sign that book publishers are looking to embrace alternatives to Amazon.com ’s Kindle e-book store, Simon & Schuster has agreed to sell digital copies of its books on Scribd.com, a popular document-sharing Web site. Books from best-selling authors like Stephen...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Simon & Schuster is going to put about 4,500 book titles for sale on a relatively new website that caters to e-readers, reports BusinessWeek . The publisher, which handles authors such as Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dan Brown, said the ebooks will be available starting tomorrow on Scribd. The site, explains Spencer Ante, is like a YouTube for books, where anyone can upload documents for...
I am the giraffe (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Joy Fielding is like Mary Higgins Clark in this respect: if you’ve read one of her books, you’ve more or less read them all; nevertheless, I read them all. There is something oddly comforting about their predictability. Not all of Fielding’s books are thrillers; several are just straight-out melodramas, some of which have been made [...]
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