BLURB, INC. LAUNCHES NEW PRINT API WITH TWO PARTNERS  | Catalog Printing

The cookbook business has a reputation for being strong and lucrative — a smart career move for any chef. The reality burns.

You said reading makes no difference in retention, a key part of learning that is interesting, I haven’t managed to get into deep reading with non-physical media (nor has anybody else I know) and that seems to be confirmed by studies. I am skeptical that you have evaluated this properly and the reason for this skepticism is that you’re responding with a single anecdote as if it were data. That is not a good way to evaluate facts and isn’t something that should be in the quiver of any critical thinker.

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I found a Dutch religious text from 1681 – De Waere Kercke Triumpherende Over De Valsche – last summer at a yard sale. It was in a box with some early twentieth century books; I think they were five for a dollar. I picked up a few things that looked interesting, not paying too close attention. I was studying for my qualifying exam, so this was mostly a short sojourn to take a break from my work. I didn’t realize what it was until a few hours later, when I was airing the books out (I think they had been in someone’s basement for a while). It had been rebound in cheap, unmarked black boards – I think everyone just assumed it was an old (but not that old!) Bible.

Every year during the holidays, a handful of unexpected breakout books sell out of stock, frustrating consumers and the authors who wrote them, but leaving the industry as a whole unscathed. But this year the shortages were more widespread, and the factors driving them are more systemic and harder to mitigate.

A quarter of the population hadn’t read a book of any kind, whether in print, electronic or audio form.

When I started reading John Carreyrou’s book on the failed health startup Theranos, I wasn’t quite sure what I’d learn from it. As a health care journalist, I’d already been an avid follower of Carreyrou’s work — namely, his award-winning stories for the Wall Street Journal that revealed Theranos’s false claims that it could perform dozens of medical tests with a tiny blood sample.

There was once on eBay a copy of Higginson’s A Forest Orchid for sale at a price much too high. This was due to the fact that it was signed, but at first glance it was obvious that the signature was fake (and clumsily done with a modern blue ball-point gel-ink pen). I was able to talk the seller down, but not low enough. There was other writing in the book, though, which I and Dr. Laffrado positively identified as Higginson’s. However, the content of the writing was of no significance. I would have liked to have the book anyways, for preservation’s sake, but not at the price the seller was set on. A few days later, the listing was removed and the book was, presumably, not sold online. I wondered for a long time after if I had done the right thing, but you can’t have them all.

“Blurb’s automated Print API handles all the complexity of printing and shipping books, so we can focus on building great new features for our customers,” said Nick Baum, Chief Executive Officer at StoryWorth. “Adding book printing to StoryWorth has had a meaningful impact on our sales. There’s just something so satisfying and valuable about receiving a tangible keepsake book."

Overall, Hancock says, Morgan James is seeing continued solid sales from its growing backlist, mostly in trade paperback. Unlike most larger trade houses, Morgan James has seen an increase in e-book sales, and growth has been strong enough that the company is preparing to launch an e-book subscription service through which subscribers will have unlimited access to all Morgan James titles for a $10 monthly fee.

Oliva, who is a lifelong resident of Olean and will turn 89 this month, hasn’t slowed down with baking and cooking in the kitchen of her North Union Street home. Prior to her interview with the Times Herald Wednesday, she had baked a batch of her well-known “Gloria’s Biscotti Cookies” to share.

But now, at last, the cast seems to have gotten somewhat juiced. Instead of local florists and ol’ T.R. (her former shopboy turned model), the gays include the likes of Neil Patrick Harris. Rob Marshall comes over with his lover and dog for breakfast and they all end up cackling over a giant cocktail shaker!