Tennessee Woman Spends $50,000 on Audiobooks When I first saw this article by Tom Alderman at the Huffington Post I thought, Wow. On second thought I recalled all the audiobooks I’ve ordered for my middle child, who despite being dyslexic, is an avid reader. I didn’t spend close to the amount that Marion Bryant spent […]
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The juggernaut of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series could not overcome the overpowering effects of a global recession last year as publishers sold fewer books in 2008 than the year before, according to the Book Industry Study group, a trade association. –Motoko Rich, Falling Sales Cast Gloom at an Expo Rich then presents the numbers, “Publishers
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I doubt it. One has to be really careful when reading articles such as, “The Decline and Fall of Books” written by Nicholas Clee. In it he writes, “Traditional bookshops are closing; vending machines are churning out novels; and e-books are the new paperbacks; so is this the final chapter for the book industry?…Booksellers have
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What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds
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Authors, Joey Pinkney and Alvin Romer, will join me in discussing their works, “Like Father, Like Son” (Joey Pinkney) and “What Lies in the Soul of a Black Man” (Alvin Romer), in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press, and due for release in June 2009. So tune
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While training to become a psychotherapist I was taught that the thicker a client’s state of denial, the deeper the wound that lay beneath it. As I look at the ways various sectors of the economy are continuing to spend money like there’s no tomorrow, never mind the economic depression that lay upon us today,
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What does it mean that Kensington Press has opted to sit out BEA this year in New York?
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