Starting this morning, Google Books is offering downloads of “entire works”, for free. For the past two years Google has been working with university liabraries from California, Michigan, England and a few in between. They have digitized anything and everything. Today, Google posted all of their copies of “public domain” books.
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The folks over at the Penguin blog are dropping hints that Viking may start up a new novel … in serial series style. That’d be cool if they can deliver a compelling story to keep you coming back.
It’ll be interesting to see what they do and who they get to do it!
to check out the Book TV schedule for the weekend.
And if you have the means, mark your calendar for September 30th in Washington DC. That’s the day of the National Book Festival. So far 70+ authors have committed to appear. That list is here, but no schedule yet, of which ones will be signing. If you make it up there let me know. I’d love to post pics and hear about it. I can’t make it, but I’ll get to make up there one of these years.
The Quills list has been released. This book award show is televised and sponsored/supported by all the major media conglomerates.
Basically everybody gets to vote on their favorite books and the books with the most votes wins. You can vote for your faves here. The polls close on September 30th.
The site also shows videos from last year’s award show. Here’s a list of the 2005 Quills winners.
The 2006 Quills will be shown on NBC, October 10th from New York City.
