Publishing Books

Here is an update from the Marans:
Great News!
We thought you might be interested to know we have recently updated our website to include over 200 of our electronic guides
in a new easy to use format. You can view our new e-guides by visiting our website:
http://www.maran.com/MI/maran_illustrated_kitchen_e.html
Enjoy!
The Marans

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I’ve written several times about Maran Illustrated and their online eBooks including the following posts. I started with…Maran Illustrated Yoga eBook available online for FREE!. I then added updates:

Maran Graphics Family Gives Away the Store (or at least the books)

Maran Illustrated Student Library is Now Online
More Maran eBooks available online for […]

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An interesting article appeared in the InsideHigherEd.com newsletter. It was the title caught my attention! FISH TO PROFS: STICK TO TEACHING. I could just visualize one of those mounted ’singing catfish’ talking to a group of professors! The article, of course, was more serious. The premise - “Should we […]

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John Mutter, editor-in-chief, of the Shelf-Awareness newsletter announced their 3rd anniversary via the newsletter. If you aren’t familiar with the newsletter these highlights will help you become more familiar. You may sign up for the FREE newsletter and see back issues at Shelf-Awareness.com
“Yesterday marked the third anniversary of our first issue. […]

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UNIVERSITY PRESSES START TO SELL VIA KINDLE
An Inside Higher Ed email delivered on June 24, 2008 led me to this interesting article about university presses selling books as Amazon’s Kindle eBooks.
Just months after Amazon’s Kindle , a portable eBook reader launched , academic
publishing houses are starting to sell books via this method. http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/24/kindle
“By the […]

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Picked up an interesting book yesterday at Goodwill called, “Specialty Shop Retailing: How to run your own store - Innovative ideas for retail success”. The copy that I found had a copyright of 1997. Was curious about the author’s business success so I looked up Orange Tree Imports
and found that it is […]

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My brother lives in Columbia S.C. and invited me to come down tomorrow to attend the S.C. Book Festival there.  It looks like it is going to be great!  I am really looking forward to it.   I will post an entry about my experience later!
Interested in finding ‘book sales’?  Check out Book Sale Finder .com!  […]

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A Harding High School (Charlotte, N.C.) English teacher and a former* M.L. King, Jr. Middle School (Charlotte, N.C.) English teacher have combined efforts to write a book on their teaching experiences.  The book is entitled,  ‘Thoughts & Lamentations of Urban Education’.  An article on Charlotte.com, ‘ Teachers publish ‘Lamentations‘ ‘ describes the book this way…

‘It’s […]

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(A special thanks to Steve Weber’s “Plug Your Book” blog for sharing this information!)
Here are some quotes from the  HarperCollins Website:
“In an attempt to increase book sales, HarperCollins Publishers will begin offering free electronic editions of some of its books on its Web site, including a novel by Paulo Coelho and a cookbook by the […]

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Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, is quoted on Amazon as saying,

“The Long Tail took form over nearly two years as an “open-source research project” on my blog at www.longtail.com . This experiment in book development, where I shared data and ideas in […]

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