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Electronic books are often mentioned in the same breath as Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle digital reader. Now e-book rival Sony Corp. is determined to recapture consumers' attention with a smaller reader that's also $100 cheaper.
Reader's Digest Association Inc. is embracing multimedia content and in the process reducing the number of times it will publish its flagship magazine.
One hundred days into the Obama administration, it comes as no surprise that coverage of the president and his family has not been limited to the standard news outlets.
Yes, the state of our economy is depressing. Yes, job losses are stressful and painful. Yes, it’s much harder to survive when money is exceptionally tight.
Amazon's Kindle might soon be getting new competitors in the market for electronic-book devices.
Msnbc.com readers proved prescient a year ago, correctly assessing the bleak economic conditions as a recession and forecasting a decline in the stock market, according to results of our unscientific survey.
Tech holiday gift checklist: LCD TV — maybe. New BlackBerry or iPhone — possible. E-reader — are you kidding?
Now that Barack Obama has been elected the nation’s 44th president, he faces the heavy burden of high hopes and expectations.
Troy Anthony Powell has been running Tap’s Barber Shop for nine years and has seen business get better every year — until this year.
Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories in their daily news intake, according to a study unveiled at a global media conference Monday.
As CTIA-The Wireless Association opens its annual show today, looking at the latest trends in mobile technology, there are still some folks who don’t want to have anything to do with cell phones.
Will the video-game industry weather the recession? Most readers think so. And that’s because most of you have no plans to change your game-buying pace. You might cut back on traveling or shopping for clothes. But not your gaming.
Green Books Campaign: 1 day, 100 bloggers, 100 green books, 100 reviewsOn Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time over 100 bloggers will take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of more than 100 such books.
Tens of thousands of book lovers walked the National Mall, between the Capitol and the Washington Monument, to hear from their favorite authors.
Book Lover Cynthia Crossen on Science FictionMy 13-year-old nephew is a voracious reader, but he tends to limit his reading to science fiction. He recently read "Brave New World," because he thought it was sci-fi. Any suggestions on how to expand his horizons to include other genres? —B.M., St. Paul, Minn.
The Clash of the Titans is coming - Google plans to sell e-books, directly competing with AmazonSo what does it mean? in one word: competition. Is it good for readers? definitely. Is it good for publishers? absolutely. Is it good for the environment? hopefully.
Three days ago I visited a website, saw something that made me laugh out loud, and which I found rather quaint, and thought I would seed it to Newsvine. It was about a sex theme park being closed down in China.
Today I received a request from an on line Friend to delete her comment.
Scribd: Democratizing Publication OnlineScribd began with a simple observation – that there's a writer in all of us. And that even more fundamental than our desire for self-expression is our need to learn and be inspired.
Greg Mitchell: Pew Survey: Viewers of Colbert and Stewart Score High on News Test (See Who Didn't!)Interesting article on news, demographic and the influence of different media on current events.
Self-Publishing : More Writers Paying to See Their Words BoundThe point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them. More Articles
Bargain books have an unexpected costDo not blame this carnage on the recession or any of the usual suspects, including increased competition for the reader's time or diminished attention spans. What is undermining the book industry is not the absence of casual readers but the changing habits of devoted readers.
Most Americans Flunk Simple 3-Question Political SurveySome news audiences are more politically savvy than others, according to a new poll, with readers of The New Yorker and similar high-brow magazines being the most knowledgeable.
At the end of the day -- after you've spent lots of time on Newsvine, Digg, Mixx, Readdit, and other sites where you can read articles and post comments, do you really feel like you've made the world a better place? If not, are you ready to take your comments to the next level?
More Than Half of Americans Never Read Political Blogs"Are people really reading these blogs? The answer is no, as over half of Americans (56%) say they never read blogs that discuss politics.
Q. Hello Elaine, I would like to write full time but the first book I wrote has been out for a while and I have yet to be recognized for it.
Stanley Fish: French Theory in America, Part TwoFish writes: Well, there's life in that old dog yet. My editor thought that a column on French theory would elicit a small number of responses from readers interested in continental philosophy.
How to embellish your bio & not get caughtThe past month has not been kind to literary fabricators. The self-proclaimed half-Native American/foster child/South Central gangster Margaret B. Jones turned out to be Margaret Seltzer, a white girl from the leafy suburb Sherman Oaks.
You're a new or unsure reader at Newsvine, and you've just been duped. I'm not going to ask, "How does it feel?" Because I know how it feels.But the thing to do now is to move on.
Stanley Fish - Think Again: A Calumny a Day To Keep Hillary AwayWhen it comes to Senator Clinton, readers were quick to see irrationality in others, but not in themselves.
Well: The Well Blog Top 10 List for 2007The stories readers have been talking about this year. These are the top 10 stories readers chose for 2007 in the Health category.
America's Most Literate Cities 2007Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America's Most Literate Cities study ranks the 69 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States.
Rescue reading"TOM AND Huck, Gatsby and Daisy, and Ishmael and Ahab are in trouble. Their worlds are losing readers. Adults and teenagers are plugged into iPods, BlackBerries, and plain old television.
This Just in: Pleasure Reading Makes a World of DifferenceAllow me to toot my own horn here. After all, how often do I toot my own horn? My kids are readers. Not intense readers, not habitual readers, but fun-loving readers.
Readers Are Key Ingredient as Virtual Kitchen Heats Up IT'S getting hot in the Internet's kitchen.
One question you may have as you start the Newsvine reading and/or movie challenge is: What should I read and/or watch next? With that in mind, plus wanting to expose and be exposed to good art, I have set up a book recommendation and movie recommendation topics.
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