Effective January 30, Goodreads and Amazon will no longer be partners. paid.Content.org has a pretty good explanation of the split.
"Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to
keep records of the books they read and share the information with
others, has long sourced most of its basic book data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).
Now, saying Amazon’s API terms have become “more and more restrictive,”
Goodreads is switching data providers and entering an agreement with
book wholesaler Ingram—alarming some users who fear their reading
records will be lost.
The changes take place January 30. Goodreads’ new data source is book
wholesaler Ingram. Goodreads will pay to license data from Ingram, and
will supplement it with book records from the Library of Congress and
other sources."
Click here for the entire article.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Best Mysteries of 2011
I love these list of 'best' books. There are so many books I have not read and then a lot I haven't even heard of. My To Read List gets longer every day!!
Anyhow, here's a list from GalleyCat and a bit from the list:
Best Novel
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)
Anyhow, here's a list from GalleyCat and a bit from the list:
Best Novel
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)
Friday, January 27, 2012
World Book Night
Just heard about this event:
"We need book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. Please sign up by Feb. 1.
The goal is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading, to share your passion for a great book. The entire publishing, bookstore, library, author, printing, and paper community is behind this effort with donated services and time.
The first World Book Night was held in the UK last year, and it was such a big success that it's spreading around the world! Please volunteer to be a book giver in the U.S. Sign up now to be a book giver."
Be sure to sign up by Feb. 1
"We need book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. Please sign up by Feb. 1.
The goal is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading, to share your passion for a great book. The entire publishing, bookstore, library, author, printing, and paper community is behind this effort with donated services and time.
The first World Book Night was held in the UK last year, and it was such a big success that it's spreading around the world! Please volunteer to be a book giver in the U.S. Sign up now to be a book giver."
Be sure to sign up by Feb. 1
Thursday, January 26, 2012
10 most expensive books in the world
Flavorwire posted an article on the 10 Most Expensive Books in the World. One of the books was auctioned at Christie's on January 20th.
"It could be a record-breaking afternoon in the book world. Today, Christie’s New York will auction off a copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, which already holds the title of most valuable printed book in the world, having sold for about $11.5 million in 2010. In fact, according to The Economist, a true list of the ten most valuable single books ever sold would have to include five copies of The Birds of America. Though Christie’s is playing their cards close to the vest and estimating a $7 to $10 million sale, today could see a new record for the book. After all, the copy that sold for $11.5 million was estimated at less than the copy on auction today."
The book sold for $7.9 million!! The Huffington Report gave some details of the book: "The 3 1/2-foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the species known to Audubon in early 19th-century North America. Audubon insisted on the book's large format – printed on the largest handmade sheets available at the time – because of his desire to portray the birds in their actual size and natural habitat."
"It could be a record-breaking afternoon in the book world. Today, Christie’s New York will auction off a copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, which already holds the title of most valuable printed book in the world, having sold for about $11.5 million in 2010. In fact, according to The Economist, a true list of the ten most valuable single books ever sold would have to include five copies of The Birds of America. Though Christie’s is playing their cards close to the vest and estimating a $7 to $10 million sale, today could see a new record for the book. After all, the copy that sold for $11.5 million was estimated at less than the copy on auction today."
The book sold for $7.9 million!! The Huffington Report gave some details of the book: "The 3 1/2-foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the species known to Audubon in early 19th-century North America. Audubon insisted on the book's large format – printed on the largest handmade sheets available at the time – because of his desire to portray the birds in their actual size and natural habitat."
Monday, January 23, 2012
Doug Johnson of The Blue Skunk Blog posted this list
You know you are a 21st-century librarian when…
You know you are a 21st-century librarian when…
- You have to remind kindergarteners to turn off their smart phones before the story starts.
- You know what an IP number is but not an ISBN number.
- You have a student who does a better job troubleshooting the circulation system than the district technician.
- Your students think both The Princess and the Frog and Meet the Robinsons were written by Walt Disney.
- You know more librarians in Texas than you do in your home state because of your Personal Learning Network.
- The best way to remind a student about an overdue book through Facebook.
- You don’t talk in the teachers lounge about a project because it is not tied directly to a state test.
- When answering a reference question, you head to an Internet terminal.
- You’ve started dressing like your avatar.
- Kids look at you funny when you call it the “the card catalog.”
- You have more polo shirts with computer logos than you do book logos - and 25% of your wardrobe comes from vendor booths at conferences.
- Your students want to read the most popular YA lit on their phones.
- Your students show you how to get around the district Internet filter so you can teach a lesson.
- Your aid spends more time troubleshooting the network than reshelving books.
- You never see anyone copy out of the print encyclopedia anymore.
- Your index finger has a callous from tapping the interactive white board.
- You didn’t get your last grad class assignment turned in on time because the network was down.
- You’ve Googled the new teachers in your building - and all the kids have Googled you.
- You don’t remember the last time you’ve had to alphabetize something.
- You have all your passwords and PIN numbers are on your PDA - and you can’t remember the password for your PDA!
ain't that the truth!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thriller Novels from 2011
I love seeing what authors recommend to their readers. Michael Palmer talks about A Few Memorable Thriller Novels from 2011 on his Facebook page.
And I have read a couple of the books -- Joseph Finder is one my favorites (Buried Secrets is his latest) and Karin Slaughter (Blindsighted).
And I have read a couple of the books -- Joseph Finder is one my favorites (Buried Secrets is his latest) and Karin Slaughter (Blindsighted).
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wikipedia will 'go dark' on January 18
Wikipedia will 'go dark' on January 18.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation " On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States."
The official Wikipedia statement can be found here.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation " On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States."
The official Wikipedia statement can be found here.
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