The electronic book is the latest example of how HTML continues to win out over competing, often nonstandardized, formats. E-books aren't websites, but E-books are distributed electronically. Now the dominant E-book format is XHTML....
To be clear, I don't think Apple is going to ban book markets like Amazon's Kindle reader or Stanza. These generally have much more functionality than a basic book app, and eliminating them...
Next time you drop a book in the bath or end up with an otherwise water-damaged periodical, document, or photograph, reader pearce.kilgour recommends a simple solution: Put it in the freezer.
The past two years have seen the public's interest in e-books reach dizzying heights. The Kindle and other readers have pushed the e-book phenomenon in front of mainstream consumers. The imminent appearance of...
Molly Flatt: I love all the new literary platforms filling my days with fresh pickings, but I also miss taking one book at a time.
Print your brackets! The Morning News' Tournament of Books 2010 has launched. Now in its sixth year, the Tournament of Books is a month-long book-focused basketball-style matchup. But where basketball teams have the...
Does giving away free product lead to more sales? Many argue that, online, it does. But there are an equal number of skeptics. So who is right?
A hyperspeed fast video of the cover design process for the third book in the Soulless series, Book #3, Blameless.
In part two of our Book Art Week, we're featuring Carol Owen, a North Carolinian who crafts dreamy reinventions of books. Her creations, which she calls "altered books," have the "found-object" and Victorian...
A common bit of speculation, bolstered by Chris Anderson's book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” is that providing free copies of books drives awareness and redounds in a commercially beneficial way...
MALDEN – What do a cattle rancher in Bolivia, a woman with a soft drink business in Peru, a Peru businessman, a bookstore owner in Paraguay, a young mother in Nicaragua, a...
At the annual "State of the Judiciary" on Feb. 15, California Chief Justice Ronald M. George said the structural developments of the judicial system in the past decade have been a successful...
A Pittsburg man's annual history calendars are catching on at schools and in bookstores.
What started as a curious search for information has turned into a small business for a Pittsburg man. While looking up facts about prominent African-Americans, James Williams discovered so many things that he...
When Acres of Books, the legendary used and rare book shop that for seventy-four years provided Southern California book lovers and literati with a place to get joyously lost in and became...
Ukiah High holds second Give One Book' drive For the Daily Journal "Education is in a desperate state," says Ukiah High Librarian Charlene Holbrook.
Writing Women Back Into History' The Daily Journal Thirty years ago, President Carter designated the month of March as Women's History Month.
Everybody has a secret lurking somewhere in the closet of their soul. Frank Warren harbors a half-million of them.
Declining enrollment and the closure of the campus bookstore have students at California State University, Stanislaus' Stockton campus wondering if the university will be around long enough for them to graduate.
Books have entered the electronic age. While e-books have been available for years, the latest devices with which they're read, called e-readers, are bringing more attention to them. Sony, Amazon and Barnes &...
When Acres of Books, the legendary used and rare book shop that for seventy-four years provided Southern California book lovers and literati with a place to get joyously lost in and became...
The used-book store, at the Carlsbad (CA) Public Library's Dove Lane branch, is a treasure trove for bibliophiles looking for bargains. Shelves are lined with donated books that include classics, recent best-sellers, romance...
I believe the post by Westminster Seminary in California bookstore was a facetious attempt by a (not-so-clever) poster who thinks it's funny when certain men insist we buy their books (cha-ching!) when we...
Green Careers for Dummies Book Launch Party Kepler's Bookstore 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 Saturday, February 6,2010 2:00pm – 4:00pm Come celebrate the launch of Green Careers For Dummies with...
My first stop in California will be the West Coast Launch Party at M Is for Mystery bookstore Tuesday night in San Mateo. Tangent: I've found that, lately, whenever I try to...
Lancaster, California's only general purpose bookstore—serving a city of close to 200000 people—closed a couple of weeks ago. It was a Waldenbooks, and, ironically, it shut down within about a week of the...
Skylight Books of Los Angeles held a wine and cheese reception that brought together many of the areas independent bookseller who shared stories of the art of bookselling. Diesel Books said National Bookstore...
Bookshop Santa Cruz is giving a bag of Sarah "Palin's Just Plain Nutz" for everyone who purchases a copy of Palin's memoirs.
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I was searching for some bookstore in California. While doing so I came across some of the many book stores which provide books & magazine etc. Some of them which I felt...
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