Acquired Books Blog

Jonathan Budd's Life Transformation Now -Closing

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:55:00 +0000

I hope you've been having an awesome
week! It's the start of the "busiest"
season in our industry here & I know
people are more MOTIVATED than ever
to make changes happen in their lives.

I wanted to give you one final update
that this video is going to be completely
removed & gone from the market by
the end of tonight...

--> http://www.LifeTransformationNow.com/?a=1507491

If you haven't taken the time to watch
it, you should go do so IMMEDIATELY.

My friend Jonathan Budd has made
over 8 MILLION in the last few years,
starting from scratch on the Internet.

He's truly a powerhouse in this industry,
and there's some secrets to his personal
productivity, mindset, & ENERGY that I
know for a fact will make you more money.

Trust me, the knowledge he's sharing here
is NOT to be missed, under estimated, or
used incorrectly.

It's devastatingly powerful... and I think
it's one of the most important things you
need to truly grow your business...

--> http://www.LifeTransformationNow.com/?a=1507491

Remember, Jonathan is removing this
video & everything he's talking about in
it from the market place TONIGHT.

I highly recommend you watch it now,
& take action before it's gone.

The possibilities are seriously endless...

We'll speak more in a bit,
Many Blessings,
Sandra

P.S. When the wealthiest, most successful
people in our industry ALL tell us the same
thing...

... That we have to work on ourselves
HARDER then we work on our businesses...

... I think it's time we listen. Don't you?

--> http://www.LifeTransformationNow.com/?a=1507491

Don't ignore the people willfully trying to
help guide you to the promise land. If
you think you can do it all on your own,
you're very wrong.

Hurry & watch before this video's gone.

How to MAXIMIZE Your True Human Potential

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:49:00 +0000

I don't usually promote stuff like this but this is a powerful program to join.

You can also take advantage of the year subscription price to make it incrediably affordable.

Jonathan just wants to give back and has reached a level of awareness where one knows giving back is really giving to yourself. He is a true Master in my opinion.

So take a look.

The human being is an incredible mystery. A mystery, which to many people, they rarely ever explore... ... And thus rarely ever discover the "Untapped" parts of human potential that are powerful beyond belief. But I know that's not you... right?I know that if you're in this community, then you CARE about yourself. You care about developing into a more wise, powerful, & loving human being. Because truthfully, that's the REAL path to success in life... ... And when our focus is on developing rather than just "getting" we see the biggest changes happen within us, & the best part is they're PERMANENT. That's why it's so important you watch this video now if you haven't already...--> Watch it here.

My friend Jonathan Budd has just released something that is of the utmost importance to this topic... ... And the implications are life changing to say the least. Take the time to go watch that video now, because I'm not sure how much longer Jonathan is going to keep it up. We'll speak more soon.

Yours In Success,
Sandra Adamson

P.S. It's time for us to WAKE UP as powerful, abundant, & wise beings. It's time to claim our heritage as creatures of infinite possibility in this universe... ... I'm stepping up. I invite you to join me:--> Watch it now!

Life Transformations LIVE NOW!!

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:17:00 +0000

I think this is a great program and I am going to sign up right now!

It has just gone live and the price is absolutely affordable!

Check it out NOW:

Life Transformation LIVE NOW!!!!!!

1st, I LOVE Life Transformation
& I know it's truly the missing link
in most people's businesses (& lives)

It just makes no sense to me how
people think they could be successful
in life, without having FIRST developed
the "Internal Game" to overcome the
unavoidable challenges ANY entrepreneur
is going to face when growing a business.

It's those challenges that usually stop
most people dead in their tracks, & cause
them to give up on themselves rather
then charging through & finding solutions.

That hurts me A LOT. And the solution
is for people to develop a true "Self Mastery"
that doesn't fall prey to difficult situations.

So to see my friend Jonathan Budd now
bringing this mainstream in our industry
is exciting to say the least.

2nd, I just found out tomorrow is the DAY
that the new "Life Transformation Now"
coaching club is going LIVE.

These are exciting times. Listen to what
Jonathan has done...

... He's put together a true LIFE transformation
coaching club that's dedicated to teaching
people the deepest possible wisdom, knowledge,
& skill sets required to experience profound
changes in your life & business.

If you don't know Jonathan's story, he's
been able to make almost 10,000,000 in
the last 4 years of building his businesses
on the Internet...

... And oh yea, he's only 26 years old.

He started his businesses literally on
his parent's kitchen table, as a completely
broke & "Skill less" kid.

Yet when you ask him HOW he was able
to overcome such terrible & challenging
odds, he'll tell you it had almost nothing
to do with "business knowledge or experience"...

... because he HAD NONE. It had everything
to do with the "self knowledge" he had inside
about what the human spirit was capable of.

This knowledge created such a powerful belief,
he just KNEW to never give up, & it would happen.

Powerful stuff to say the least. In any case,
the "Life Transformation Now" club is going
live tomorrow morning, & I think you should
absolutely be in it.

I know I will, and will be soaking up the
knowledge that's going to be shared left
& right. It's truly amazing stuff.

And here's something I'm sure you're
going to appreciate as well.

Jonathan is doing this project really
because it's one of his MAJOR passions.

He wants to truly be able to affect &
transform people's lives. So he decided
to make the club LUDICROUSLY affordable.

It's going to be less then 20 bucks per
month to have access to the entire thing.

But I know this is only the introductory
price for the opening of the club, & it's
going to possible double or triple within
the upcoming months.

So here's what you should do now.

#1: watch this video if you haven't already
& leave your comments below if you're as
excited as I am...

---> http://LifeTransformationNow.com/?a=1507491

There's seriously no downside to this, &
I know the teachings that you'll get in
"Life Transformation Now", literally on a
weekly basis, are going to be that constant
NUDGE you need always moving forward
in a positive, abundant, fulfilling direction.

The Warrior’s Choice. You Get to Make This Choice Only Once… Choose Today or Accept Your Fate.

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:24:00 +0000

I love Jonathan Budd's spirit.

The Warrior’s Choice. You Get to Make This Choice Only Once… Choose Today or Accept Your Fate.

Clearance Sale: Barnes & Noble Didn't Evolve Enough

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:26:00 +0000

by James B. Stewart
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

How did Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS - News) fall so far so fast?

The giant bookstore chain, whose superstores once struck fear into the hearts of independent booksellers everywhere, put itself up for sale this month, rendering it the corporate equivalent of the remaindered books it sells at a discount.

The company said it made the move because its shares are undervalued, but to me there was an air of desperation about it.

The simple explanation for Barnes & Noble's decline is the Internet, which spawned Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN - News), e-readers and digital books. But that didn't have to be the end for B&N, which had a dominant market position and should have out-Amazoned Amazon, leveraging its brand and innovating when it began marketing and selling books online.

I know exactly when B&N lost me as a customer. Some years ago, to compete with Amazon, B&N began offering free same-day delivery in Manhattan if you placed your order over the Internet by 11 a.m. I did so several times -- and not once did the books arrive when promised. Everything I have ordered from Amazon has arrived on time or earlier. Then came Amazon's game-changing Kindle, and instant delivery. Nothing I've read about B&N's belated rival Nook has tempted me to try it.

My hunch is that B&N never really embraced the Internet or e-books, tied as it was to the old-fashioned world of physical books and stores. As B&N focused on managing decline, a much more nimble Amazon could concentrate exclusively on the new world it was forming. B&N needed to destroy its business model to prevail. Now it is probably too late. There is a lesson for all businesses here.

Now I'm using Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPad, and while I predicted the demise of the Kindle in a previous column, I may have been premature. I like reading on the iPad, especially in bed at night and in other places where the device's back-lighting comes in handy. So far, it hasn't bothered my eyes at all, unlike the indistinct pages of the Kindle. But the Kindle is better outdoors.

Read Full Story!

Get ready for the bookstore massacre

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:10:00 +0000

By Brett Arends

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Are we about to see bookstores closing across the country? I suspect so.

Look at the depressing proxy battle for what remains of Barnes & Noble Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!bks/quotes/nls/bks (BKS 15.81, +0.46, +3.00%) , the world's largest chain of bookstores. You could hardly dominate an industry more than B&N has dominated the landscape of traditional bookstores. Yet its fortunes have fallen so far that management has hoisted the white flag and put it up for sale.

Barnes & Noble stock, which was flying high above $45 five years ago, has plummeted below $15. Wall Street's view of its prospects is so dim that not even the news of a bid battle has set it alight. The only bright spot: The company's e-book sales, which rocketed 51% last quarter.

(A vignette of a company in decline: Barnes & Noble's annual filing shows that management and staff owns 5.5 million stock options, granted to them in previous years to give them an incentive to work harder and smarter. The options have an average exercise price of $20.19 -- meaning most of them, if not all, are now seemingly worthless.)

As for the other giant of traditional bookstores: Borders Group Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!bgp/quotes/nls/bgp (BGP 1.27, 0.00, 0.00%) stock has plummeted by as much as 95% from its peak. Indeed, Borders stock, at around $1.20, is now a fraction of the cost of a book.

Meanwhile, e-books have now reached that tedious cliché, the tipping point. Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle e-book reader has sold out -- weeks before it even started shipping. The new device is smaller, cheaper, and has a better screen.

Read the SAD story here

Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:17:00 +0000

NPR | July 8, 2010

The periodical shelves at Stanford University’s Engineering Library are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most engineering periodicals have been moved online, making their print versions pretty obsolete -- and books aren't doing much better.

According to Josephine, students can now browse those periodicals from their laptops or mobile devices.

For years, students have had to search through volume after volume of books before finding the right formula -- but no more. Josephine says that "with books being digitized and available through full text search capabilities, they can find that formula quite easily."

In 2005, when the university realized it was running out space for its growing collection of 80,000 engineering books, administrators decided to build a new library. But instead of creating more space for books, they chose to create less.

The new library is set to open in August with 10,000 engineering books on the shelves -- a decrease of more than 85 percent from the old library. Stanford library director Michael Keller says the librarians determined which books to keep on the shelf by looking at how frequently a book was checked out. They found that the vast majority of the collection hadn't been taken off the shelf in five years.

Mark Twain's Tribute to Daughter Sells for $242,500

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:28:00 +0000

June 18, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tribute written by American novelist and satirist Mark Twain to his daughter, who died of spinal meningitis at the age of 24, sold at auction on Thursday for $242,500, almost doubling pre-sale estimates.

The unpublished "A Family Sketch" was a 64-page, handwritten manuscript that Twain wrote around 1896 or 1897 for Olivia "Susy" Clemens, who inspired some of his stories and even wrote her own biography of her father.

The document also reminisced about his own childhood and was described as the missing chapter of his autobiography.

"What initially began as a tribute to his late -- and undisputed favorite -- daughter Susy thus devolved into a narrative that encompasses the whole of this family and friends as well as glimpses of incidents of his own childhood," auctioneer Sotheby's said in a statement.

It had been estimated that the document would sell at Sotheby's for between $120,000 to $160,000, but the price soared as four bidders competed for the manuscript. The sale price, a record for an autographed manuscript by Twain at auction, includes the buyer's premium. Sotheby's said it sold to an unidentified New York trade buyer.

Craft Shop Family Buys Up Ancient Bibles for Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:14:00 +0000

By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Published: June 11, 2010

OKLAHOMA CITY — At least one example of the printed word is in great demand even in the digital age: ancient Bibles.

With a goal of establishing a national Bible museum of great depth and size, the evangelical Christian family behind the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores has been spending heavily to amass a collection that has set dealers buzzing in the staid world of rare books.
Specialists estimate the family has bought illuminated, or decorated, manuscripts, Torahs, papyri and other works worth $20 million to $40 million from auction houses, dealers, private collectors and institutions, some of which may be selling because of financial pressure.
The man leading the effort is Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, a private company based here that is a favorite of scrapbook makers, do-it-yourselfers and home decorators. The company, founded by his father, David, in 1972, now numbers 439 stores and has generated a family fortune that Forbes magazine estimates at $2.5 billion.
With money to spare, the younger Mr. Green, 46, has found a passion to complement his vocation, and is working with specialists in deal-making and history who, using company money on behalf of the family, began buying with a flourish about six months ago.
“They have caught everyone’s attention because no one in recent memory has spent so much so quickly on Bibles,” said Dr. Eric White, curator of special collections at the Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
The collection now includes more than 30,000 items, according to Mr. Green and his team. Some of those were shown to The New York Times at Hobby Lobby offices in Oklahoma City, including a New Testament papyrus from the second century A.D., a lavishly illustrated and illuminated Martin Luther New Testament and a Spanish Inquisition Torah.
“The goal is to create a museum around the story of the Bible,” Mr. Green explained. “No book has been persecuted as much or loved as much. Its incredible story needs to be told.”

Read Whole Story

Sony: ebooks to overtake print within five years

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:05:00 +0000

By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial)
Published: 4:59PM BST 02 Jun 2010

Sales of ebooks will overtake print books within the next five years, Sony has predicted.

Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division, said: "Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said within ten years but I realised that was wrong - it's within five."

He said the same patterns that Sony had seen in the digitisation of music and photography were now being repeated in the books market.

Sony announced today that it will sponsor a new category in this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize - the Sony Reader Award for Unpublished Writers. The prize, to be awarded in December, will go to the best book by an unpublished novelist under 30 years old.

Omar Gurnah, Reader category marketing manager for Sony, said: “Being involved in the Dylan Thomas Prize this year is an ideal partnership for Reader. We wanted to take the Dylan Thomas Prize’s ethos of working with young authors a step further by creating a new category to offer Britain’s unpublished writers a unique platform on which to showcase their novel-writing talents.”

Sony believes that the ebook market has now passed the point of no return. Haber said: "I have multiple meetings with publishers and tell them paradigm shifts happen. You can say fortunately or unfortunately you haven't had a paradigm shift in, what, hundreds of years."

Read Full Story

Amazon to Drop Free Books from Kindle Bestseller List

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:53:00 +0000

by Rachel Deahl
May 12, 2010

For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon’s practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer be an issue. A representative at the e-tailer has confirmed that the company will be splitting its Kindle bestseller list, creating one list for paid books and another for free titles. The date for the switch is vague—the rep would only say it will happen in “a few weeks”—but the switch will certainly be noticed.

Currently the top ten bestselling titles on Amazon’s Kindle bestseller list are free downloads, a fact that speaks to how publishers are testing the free model to get attention for certain authors. In a January 23 piece in The New York Times, the paper's former publishing reporter Motoko Rich explored the phenomenon. In the piece, Rich noted that over half of the most popular titles on Amazon's Kindle bestseller list were free downloads. Now, with the list to be split up, one has to wonder if publishers will find free giveaways as valuable a promotion tool.

The Kindle bestseller list has been used by publishers to gauge consumer behavior towards e-books, as well by consumers use to point them to titles. An executive at HarperCollins said she thinks Amazon is certainly doing the right thing by splitting the list, noting that consumers “want to know what books everyone is reading, and buying, ” and that a list which combines free downloads and books for sale doesn’t deliver this information. When asked if she thought the separation of the lists might make promotional e-book giveaways less effective, she said it might.

Read More

Year of the tablet? Competitors eye iPad

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:13:00 +0000

Last August, Wired magazine said 2010 was primed to be the "Year of the Tablet," with a number of touch-screen devices slated for release this year.

Apple's iPad, released in April, has headlined the craze so far, but it's not the only player in the game. Here, take a look at a few other tablets trying to elbow their way into the market. Some are already out, while others have yet to hit store shelves.

Read the full Article to see all of the competitors.

Google Readies Its E-Book Plan, Bringing in a New Sales Approach

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:06:00 +0000

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO And JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG

Google Inc. plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company official said Tuesday, throwing the search giant into a battle that already involves Amazon.com Inc., App le Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc.

Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing about its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish Google Editions in the marketplace by allowing users to access books from a broad range of websites using an array of devices, unlike rivals that are focused on proprietary devices and software.

Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic-partner development, announced the timetable for Google's plans on Tuesday at a publishing- industry panel in New York.

Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book-search service. It will also allow book retailers—even independent shops—to sell Google Editions on their own sites, giving partners the bulk of the revenue.

The company would have copies on its servers for works it strikes agreements to sell. Google is still deciding whether it will follow the model where publishers set the retail price or whether Google sets the price.

While Mr. Palma didn't go into details, users of Google Editions would be able to read books from a web browser—meaning that the type of e-reader device wouldn't matter. The company also could build software to optimize reading on certain devices like an iPhone or iPad but hasn't announced any specific plans.

Chris Palma, Google's manager for strategic-partner development, announced the timetable for Google's plans on Tuesday at a publishing- industry panel in New York.

Read Full Story

Future is uncertain for Berkeley's Serendipity Books, one of the region's largest bookstores

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:01:00 +0000

Posted By: Frances Dinkelspiel April 30 2010 at 08:25 AM

Peter B. Howard, the owner of Serendipity Books, has been collecting antique tomes for 47 years and the results of his diligence can be seen in the stacks and stacks of books at his store on University Avenue in Berkeley.

A world-renowned book collector who has rescued a number of valuable archives from the Berkeley city dump and gotten them preserved at university libraries, Howard estimates that he owns one million books. Half are crammed into his store, where the piles of books make it tough to move around, and half are stored in his warehouse.

But all that is about to change.

Howard was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and he knows his time - and that of Serendipity Books - is short. He is trying to sell his massive collection, as well as his business, but does not think it will be easy. He predicts that the store will probably close upon his death.

"There's nothing to say," Howard said by telephone. "People die. We all die. Businesses end."

Howard has long been famous for his blunt talk. That, and the quality of his collection.

Ian Jackson, an old friend and fellow antiquarian book dealer, has served as an unofficial interpreter of Howard to the world. He even wrote two books about the store and its owner, one titled, The Key to Serendipity: How to Buy Books in Spite of Peter Howard. (I think the double entendre is intended.)

In an epigraph to that book, Jackson repeats a conversation he overheard at Serendipity:

Puzzled Customer: Is there any rhyme or reason to this place?

Full Story

For Hoarders, The Mess Begins In The Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:46:00 +0000

Interesting Story!

by Patti Neighmond

April 5, 2010

We've all seen the TV shows and heard the stories: people who collect so much stuff they can hardly move in their own home. Some even sleep in the car or yard because their homes are so crammed.

Researchers now believe these people have always been hoarders, and that compulsive hoarding is an anxiety disorder that gets worse with time. Frequently, the problem first emerges in childhood or adolescence. But people often aren't "found out" until they're older, often when their homes present fire hazards or neighbors complain. Unfortunately, there aren't any proven treatments to help them.

Therapy Aims To Cut The Hoarding Habit

At the University of California, San Diego Department of Psychiatry, psychologist Catherine Ayers specializes in anxiety disorders and late-life hoarding. She's researching treatments for older hoarders. Right now, she's using a form of behavior therapy and cognitive remediation that focuses on building concrete skills.

Ayers says classic cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) — therapy based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors — doesn't work well with older adults who hoard. In large part, that's because CBT relies on abstract thinking, which can be difficult for seniors, especially those with certain mental deficits. So in therapy, Ayers focuses on concrete skill building. "We're teaching people how to plan, how to prioritize, how to do basic to-do lists, how to use a calendar, do problem solving," she says.

Armed with these new organizational skills, Ayers hopes her patients will be better able to tackle treatment for their hoarding disorder, which, of course, requires an ability to prioritize, problem solve and, ultimately, make decisions about whether to discard an item.

Ayers practices these organizational skills with patients in therapy over and over again. She helps her patients ask appropriate questions about the practical value and utility of various items. By repeatedly discussing how to sort through items, Ayers says, patients not only learn decision-making skills about items they hoard, they also learn how to tolerate the distress of getting rid of them.

Read Full Article

Mark Twain's Final Years

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:48:00 +0000

By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer – Thu Apr 15, 4:38 pm ET

REDDING, Conn. – Mark Twain died here on April 21, a century ago. He was 74, and in failing health, his heart — his tobacco heart, he called it — so weak that he interrupted a restful cruise to Bermuda to return and die at the house on a hill built for him just two years earlier.

"Mark Twain is dead!" cried The San Francisco Examiner. "In those four words America announces to a weeping world the loss of her foremost literary man."

It had been a quarter of a century since Twain's classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but Twain remained the country's most famous and beloved writer, the slouching, white-suited, frizzy-haired humorist and storyteller. The records of Twain's final days were in bold headlines, with Twain's doctor providing updates carried by news outlets around the world.

"Yesterday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bedside," The Associated Press reported just before his death, adding that health concerns had led Twain to cut his smoking from 20 cigars a day to four.

"No deprivation was a greater sorrow to him. He tried to smoke on the steamer while returning from Bermuda, and only gave it up because he was too feeble to draw on his pipe. Even on his deathbed, when he had passed the point of speech and it was no longer certain that his ideas were lucid, he would make the motion of waving a cigar, and, smiling, would expel empty air from under the mustache still stained with smoke."

Twain had suffered a decade of trials. He lost his beloved wife, Olivia, and two of his children, one of whom — Jean_ died suddenly at the end of 1909, a tragedy that led Twain to vow he would never write again. Bad investments had forced him out of his eccentric Victorian mansion in Hartford and brought him to Redding, where he lived in a Tuscan-style house he named Stormfield, in part for his story "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven."

Read the Whole Article

Will Apple's iPad kill the textbook?

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Electronic Textbooks? You Bet
Knowledge@Wharton, 03.05.10, 05:11 PM EST
A $9.9 billion industry is about to get a serious makeover.

Many educators are pointing to Apple Computer's ( AAPL - news - people ) recently announced iPad as the prototype for an e-reader that will be able to hold all the textbooks a student needs. Its color touch-screen, interactive-video capability and virtual keyboard, they say, give it greater potential for textbook users than monochrome readers like Amazon's Kindle.

Apple has been quiet about its designs on the textbook business since unveiling its new device, which will go on sale this month. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ - news - people ) and Dell ( DELL - news - people ) have also announced portable tablet computers, and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) is rumored to be developing a two-screen model. While some students may be using notebooks or their more portable cousins, netbooks, to read textbooks, some experts predict that within the next 10 years, most U.S. college students--and many high-school and elementary-school students as well--will probably be reading course materials on an electronic device instead of in a paper book. And that will have a broad impact on students and teachers, not to mention the $9.9 billion textbook-publishing business.

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE

How Green Is My iPad? or Kindle For That Matter?

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:07:00 +0000

By DANIEL GOLEMAN and GREGORY NORRIS

With e-readers like Apple’s new iPad and Amazon’s Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more environmentally friendly: an e-reader or an old-fashioned book?

To find the answer, we turned to life-cycle assessment, which evaluates the ecological impact of any product, at every stage of its existence, from the first tree cut down for paper to the day that hardcover decomposes in the dump. With this method, we can determine the greenest way to read.

(A note about e-readers: some technical details — for instance, how those special screens are manufactured — are not publicly available and these products vary in their exact composition. We’ve based our estimates on a composite derived from available information. It’s also important to keep in mind that we’re focusing on the e-reader aspect of these devices, not any other functions they may offer.)

READ FULL ARTICLE

March 22 Facts & Figures feature for adult titles

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:51:00 +0000

Michael Coffey -- Publishers Weekly, 3/22/2010 12:00:25 PM

Due to adminstrative error and one miscategorization, the ranked sales figures for adult hardcover fiction and nonfiction and trade and mass market paperbacks that appeared in our March 22 issue require correction. Portions of information submitted by four publishers—Hachette (Grand Central and Little, Brown's Back Bay imprints), Random House (Anchor/Vintage), HarperCollins (some William Morrow titles), and S&S (some Atria and Washington Square Press titles)—were omitted. Below, you will find these titles properly placed into the full list. In addition, six titles by PC and Kristin Cast--all YA books from St. Martin's--have been removed from our fiction hardcover list, as they were miscategorized as adult titles. [Please note that entries preceded by an asterisk are titles for which exact sales numbers were supplied to PW in confidence, for use in ranking titles only.]

Hardcover Fiction Sales, 2009
1. The Lost Symbol: A Novel. Dan Brown. Doubleday (5,543,643).
2. *The Associate: A Novel. John Grisham. Doubleday.
3. The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Putnam/Amy Einhorn (1,104,617).
4. I, Alex Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown (1,040,976).
5. The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central. (1,032,829).
6 *Ford County. John Grisham. Doubleday.
7. Finger Lickin' Fifteen. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's (977,178).
8. The Host: A Novel. Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown (912,165).
9. *Under the Dome. Stephen King. Scribner
10. Pirate Latitudes. Michael Crichton. Harper (855,638).

Trade Paperbacks
1,000,000+
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. William P. Young. Orig. Windblown (3,595,467).
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control *Government, inspired by Thomas Paine. Glenn Beck. Rep. Threshold.
The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. Rep. HMH (1,456,771).
Push. Sapphire. Rep. Vintage/Anchor (1,269,650).
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Rep. Dial (1,105,469).
Vision in White. Nora Roberts. Orig. Berkley (1,100,427).

Click through to see all the revised figures, which will also appear in the April 5 issue of Publishers Weekly.

See the full title list here.

Yale Takes Over Stanford Publishing Course

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:49:00 +0000

Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 3/23/2010 10:08:43 AM

Looking to fill the void left by the closing of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, Yale will offer a week-long publishing program for book and magazine publishing professionals July 18-23, close to the time the Stanford event had been traditionally held. The program, Yale said, "is geared to middle- and upper-level professionals in the book, magazine, and on-line publishing industry."

Robert Baensch and Martin Levin, who served as advisors to Stanford, are involved with the Yale effort and other publishing executives who had been part of the Stanford course are joining Yale program as advisors and lecturers. The Yale program will expand the international scope of the Stanford course and concentrate more heavily on the business side of publishing, with an emphasis on emerging technology.

A Great Auction With A 3-D Catalog

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:57:00 +0000

This is a nice mystery and thriller auction from Swan Galleries. The neat thing is their catalog can be veiwed online in 3-D!!

Check it out for yourself here

Minor Book Repairs – Sprucing Up Your Old Friends by Liz Holderman (02/18/10).

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:33:00 +0000

Favorite old books are like friends. But they can start to show wear with handling and age. While restoration of very valuable books should always be left to experts, it is okay to spruce up your grandmother’s leather-bound hymnal or that beloved Hardy Boys copy you’ve had since the 7th grade. Here are some quick hints.

Read all the wonderful hints here.

2009 Book Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:16:00 +0000

RESULTS ANNOUNCED!
National "Best Books 2009" Awards!

USA Book News is celebrating an incredible five months since the announcement of the winners & finalists of the National “Best Books 2009” Awards.

The National “Best Books 2009” Awards have been tweeted, blogged, facebooked, announced, celebrated, and linked thousands of times online since our results were announced. Hundreds of publisher websites proudly display their recent win!

Now in our 7th year, USA Book News continues to be a reliable and respected company within the publishing industry. We will continue supporting and honoring books from all sectors of the publishing world!

Read all about it!

Links to Faulkner's Works Found in Diary

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:20:00 +0000

Posted by Mike Melia , February 16, 2010

A little literary sleuthing has uncovered a link between an unpublished antebellum diary and the well-known work of William Faulkner.

Sally Wolff-King, a professor of Southern literature at Emory University, was working on a book based on conversations with living acquaintances of Faulkner when she met Edgar Wiggin Francisco III. During the course of an interview, Francisco's wife prompted him to show Wolff-King a diary kept by his great, great grandfather. The ledger was written in the mid-1800s by Francis Terry Leak and kept record of his Mississippi plantation.

The 1,800 page document had been available to scholars since it was donated to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1946, but the connection to Faulkner remained unknown. Francisco's father had been a life-long friend of the Nobel Prize-winning author, who made frequent visits to the family's home in Holly Springs, Miss.

Read Full Story Here

Are Your Donated Books Going To A Good Cause?

noreply@blogger.com (Acquired Books) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:48:00 +0000

Reporting
Joe Shortsleeve
BOSTON (WBZ) ―

WATCH VIDEO

Most of us have books lying around the house collecting dust, and one good way to get rid of them is to donate them. But one local company has consumers upset, feeling that they were duped when they donated.

"I thought they were going to a good cause," says Angela Smith of East Taunton. She gave her unwanted books to the company Got Books Inc. after seeing their ad in the newspaper. They even picked everything up at her home at no charge, "Well it said 'donate' so I assumed he was a non-profit organization that donated to charities," Angela told WBZ.

And if you check out the homepage of gotbooks.com, you might agree. There's information about making donations, fundraising, books for troops and books for teachers. The reality? Got Books is a for-profit company based in Wilmington. It's the brainchild of Bob Ticehurst and it's big business. Ticehurst sells the donated books at one of his five used book superstores. Ticehurst insists he's not misleading anyone. But consumers who contacted WBZ-TV or filed complaints on websites like RipOffReport.com and Complaintsboard.com beg to differ.

Read More