http://headsubhead.com "all things book" Birmingham, Alabama Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year, Alabama Bound is taking a different track and falling in line with the state-wide The Big Read initiative. It's still free (except lunch) and runs from 10a-3p, tomorrow (Saturday, march 20th) at the Central Branch in downtown Birmingham. Since this year's Big Read is The Adventures of Tom ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/03/19/alabama-bound-is-tomorrow/ It's finally here! Click here to go download it (download will start automatically). There's nothing super special about it. With all the delays, since last year, I thought they were cramming in all of the annotations and such, but it looks like those are coming later. This app, which lets you ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/03/18/amazon-kindle-app-for-mac-now-available/ I love promotional programs like the new Read It Forward here in Birmingham/Jefferson County. They seem to merge all of the fun parts of technology, connects a community and has FREE books! This year Tom Sawyer has been selected as the book for Alabama Reads and the JCLC system is ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/03/11/free-books-read-it-forward/ Amazon fired the opening salvo in the latest skirmish over eBooks with mega-publisher Macmillan. Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the world is at odds with Amazon over the pricing of Kindle books, so Amazon deleted all of the "Buy Now" buttons from all Macmillan published titles! I'm sure ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/30/amazon-yanks-macmillan-books/ Wow. Just wow! The Guardian has a feature on the world's largest book, which is part of a map & atlas exhibit at The British Museum. It takes 6 people to move the 350-year-old Klencke Atlas which contains maps and such dating from the time of Charles II. Pretty cool. ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/28/the-largest-book-in-the-world/ The Alabama Book Festival launched a new website last weekend. This year will be the 5th year for the state-wide literary festival. It scheduled to run 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17th, in the Old Alabama Town section of Montgomery. The full line up of speakers and authors ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/25/alabama-book-festival-april-17th/ It's less than a week before Steve Jobs takes the stage atop a unicorn showing the world the fabled Apple Tablet (iSlate). And it appears that Amazon thinks there is going to be a real battle for books. In the past two years, Amazon has used its size to bulldoze ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/21/amazon-ready-to-battle-for-books/ Not ten. Ten is too many. But five is doable. I was shopping this weekend and stopped in a few local indie stores. They had nice tables showing "NY Times Bestsellers" and the like, all of which was great, but didn't help me at all. So here I offer you ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/19/five-things-i-want-from-my-local-bookstore/ It looks like Birmingham is loosing another indie bookstore. After almost six years in business and just weeks after setting up their Twitter feed, Linda Brown has sent out a very sincere and personal note about plans to close Milestone Books or at best, let it change hands. I have ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/13/milestone-books-announces-closing/ A lot of time, I'm a little slow and "British humor" escapes me, but one show that I enjoy is Black Books. It centers on a bookstore in England and every character is over the top manic and rude. It's great fun. Especially, if you've ever worked in a bookstore, ... http://headsubhead.com/2010/01/04/black-books-on-hulu/