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Anancy Books » Recent Posts http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Just another bbPress community en Sat, 19 May 2012 10:08:55 +0000 African American on "Anansi eBook Proverbs: Alligator shouldn' call hog long mout." http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/anansi-ebook-proverbs-alligator-shouldn-call-hog-long-mout-3#post-246 Fri, 18 May 2012 18:53:16 +0000 African American 246@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Anansi eBook Proverbs: Alligator shouldn' call hog long mout. Buy Your Books Here and Save: <a href="http://www.Anancybooks.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancybooks.com</a> Jamaican Proverb: Monkey mus' know weh 'im gwine put 'im tail, before 'im order trousiz. Possible meaning: Pre-planning is essential. Work out the details in advance. Know yourself – your situation. What's good for others may not be fitting for you. Know how to handle what's peculiar to you. 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The deal values the e-reader business at $1.7 billion. The move by Microsoft will help bolster the standing of Barnes & Noble’s fastest-growing unit. The bookstore giant had said this year that it was exploring strategic options for the business, including a potential divestiture or strategic partnership. The company has wagered heavily on the Nook, whose e-readers and tablets compete against Amazon’s best-selling Kindle devices in the hotly contested world of electronic books. Barnes & Noble Shares Leap on News of Microsoft Deal Earlier this month, Barnes & Noble announced a new black-and-white e-reader with a glowing screen so that it can be used in the dark. The introduction of the e-reader was followed by strong reviews from critics, and Barnes & Noble executives said the device is already sold out. Both Barnes & Noble and Amazon are spending heavily to maintain a foothold in light of Apple’s success with the iPad. Mike Spencer/Wilmington Star News, via Associated PressBarnes & Noble bookstores prominently feature displays of Nook e-readers. The Nook division’s growth has come at enormous financial cost, weighing down on Barnes & Noble’s bottom line and prompting the strategic review. The retailer added on Monday that it was still weighing other options for the business. The investment from a deep-pocketed tech giant will give Barnes & Noble breathing room, allowing the company to continue to spend money developing Nook devices. “It gives them a much larger, financially stable partner,” said Peter Wahlstrom, a senior analyst with Morningstar Equity Research. “The bricks-and-mortar side of the business is profitable but all that cash goes into investing in digital.” For Microsoft, it is an opportunity to expand its efforts in the tablet arena, said James L. McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. “This is a way for Microsoft to have a hand in the physical tablet business without actually being in the physical tablet business,” he said. Shares of Barnes & Noble were up more than 61 percent in midday trading on Monday, giving it a market value of $1.3 billion — still less than the valuation of just the Nook unit. Microsoft shares were little changed at $31.99. Through the deal, the two companies will settle their patent disputes, and Barnes & Noble will produce a Nook e-reading application for the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, which will run on traditional computers and tablets. The new division, which has yet to be renamed, will also include Barnes & Noble’s college business. It is meant to help the business compete in what many expect to be a growth area for e-books: the education market, something that Apple has already set its sights on. The new company and “our relationship with Microsoft are important parts of our strategy to capitalize on the rapid growth of the Nook business, and to solidify our position as a leader in the exploding market for digital content in the consumer and education segments,” William J. Lynch Jr., Barnes & Noble’s chief executive, said in a statement. In an interview, Mr. Lynch said the company would maintain a strong relationship between the digital busineses and the brick-and-mortar stores. “We’re not changing the base number of the stores materially,” Mr. Lynch said, noting that there are many cities with high-income residents that no longer have a bookstore in the wake of Borders’ liquidation last year. “We’re looking to play a little offense with the bookstores.” Barnes & Noble will capture additional points of distribution from hundreds of millions of Windows users, potentially reaching consumers who did not associate the bookseller with e-books. Publishers appeared to be cheered by the news. Mr. Lynch said that he had received encouraging e-mails Monday morning from chief executives from five of the six major publishers in the business. “These publishers are completely aligned with Barnes & Noble,” Mr. Lynch said. “Publishers are going to like this deal a lot.” Buy here and save: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Save 40% and more! Free Shipping with any purchase of $25.00 (twenty five dollars) or more! African American on "NL – 042012: Anancybooks’ March Newsletter" http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/nl-%e2%80%93-042012-anancybooks%e2%80%99-march-newsletter#post-240 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:08:16 +0000 African American 240@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ NL – 042012: Anancybooks’ March Newsletter Anancy eBooks: A high discount, premium value, online store selling books, eBooks, music, movies, and DVD’s to homes, schools, and business. 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Nick Oxford for The New York Times Randall White of the Educational Development Corporation, which in February removed its books from Amazon. Buy here: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Anansi eBook News: Daring to Cut off Amazon. Buy here and save: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> TULSA, Okla. — Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot. The Educational Development Corporation sells books from England to toy stores and bookshops in the United States. Buy here: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Free shipping: After $25.00 of purchases. 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It takes time to develop true understanding and relationships. Deception can be conveyed by the obvious and the seemingly innocent. Buy here and save: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Save 40% and more! Free Shipping with any purchase of $25.00 (twenty five dollars) or more! African American on "Anancy eBook News: Daring to Cut Off Amazon" http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/anancy-ebook-news-daring-to-cut-off-amazon#post-238 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:42:21 +0000 African American 238@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Anancy eBook News: Daring to Cut Off Amazon Buy here and save: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Daring to Cut Off Amazon Nick Oxford for The New York Times Randall White of the Educational Development Corporation, which in February removed its books from Amazon. By DAVID STREITFELD Published: April 15, 2012 TULSA, Okla. — Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot. The Educational Development Corporation sells books from England to toy stores and bookshops in the United States. The Educational Development Corporation, saying it was fed up with Amazon’s scorched-earth tactics, announced at the end of February that it would remove all its titles from the retailer’s virtual shelves. That eliminated at a stroke $1.5 million in annual sales, a move that could be a significant hit to the 46-year-old EDC’s bottom line. “Amazon is squeezing everyone out of business,” said Randall White, EDC’s chief executive. “I don’t like that. They’re a predator. We’re better off without them.” It is an unequal contest. EDC has 77 employees, no-frill offices on an industrial strip here and a stock-market valuation of $18 million — hardly a threat to Amazon, a Wall Street darling worth $86 billion. But Mr. White’s bold move to take his 1,800 children’s books away from the greatest retailing success of the Internet era is more evidence of the extraordinary tumult within the book world over one simple question: who gets to decide how much a book costs? The Justice Department last week sued five major publishers and Apple on price-fixing charges, simultaneously settling with three of the houses. The publishers say they were not illegally colluding but simply taking advantage of a new device platform — Apple’s iPad — to sell their e-books in a different way, where they controlled the prices. publishers wanted to stop Amazon from using what one of them called “the wretched $9.99 price point,” according to court papers. Selling e-books so cheaply, they feared, would solidify Amazon’s robust grip on the business while simultaneously building a low-price mind-set among consumers that could prove ruinous to other bookstores and the publishers themselves. EDC does not produce e-books, but saw exactly this happening with its physical inventory. Amazon was buying EDC’s books from a distributor and discounting them to the bone, just as it does with everything it sells. This might have been a boon for readers, but it was creating trouble with other retailers who carry the company’s titles, as well as with EDC’s network of independent sales agents, who market its books from their homes. “They were becoming showrooms for Amazon,” Mr. White said. “We were shooting ourselves in the foot.” Amazon is generally reluctant to explain its business practices and declined to comment for this article. But its executives say it is shaking up an antiquated business model by eliminating middlemen and passing the savings on to consumers. Publishers that try to cling to the past, they have said, will die. The retailer’s growing list of critics, however, argue that Amazon has $48 billion in revenue but hardly any profit, proof that its approach is opportunistic and unsustainable. When traditional publishers, booksellers and wholesalers are destroyed, these opponents say, Amazon will be left with a monopoly that will be detrimental to the larger health of the culture. In recent months, the dispute over Amazon’s strategy of selling books below cost has boiled over from several directions. During the holiday season, Amazon encouraged customers to use physical stores as showrooms before ordering more cheaply online, a move that infuriated bookstores in particular. Publishers and distributors say that Amazon, never exactly shy in negotiating terms, has been more assertive in its quest for ever-better deals. In February, Amazon demanded better margins from the Independent Publishers Group, a Chicago distributor of dozens of small imprints. IPG balked, so Amazon removed nearly 5,000 of the company’s e-books from its site. “Amazon wants the price of books to be very, very low — lower than the publishing community can support,” said Curt Matthews, IPG’s chief executive. “Making a book is still a craft industry. Books need to be edited, to be publicized. Someone needs to say this is good and this is not. If there is not enough money to support that whole chain, the system will break down.” Publishers have often been ambivalent about Amazon. On the one hand, it offers an extraordinarily efficient method of distributing their wares. Readers anywhere can easily order the most obscure volume and have it delivered the next day. With e-books, access is even easier, but publishers’ vulnerability is compounded; Amazon controls not just the method of distribution but the actual device the text is consumed on. “Last year was the best in our 37 years, mainly due to the way Amazon was pushing the books,” said Bryce Milligan of Wings Press in San Antonio, an IPG client. “Then Amazon cut us off because they couldn’t get a better deal. Now our e-books sales are down 50 percent.” If publishers and wholesalers feel threatened, writers are caught in the middle — both pawns and prize. Ted McClelland, a writer in Chicago, had two IPG e-books dropped by Amazon. He just got a royalty statement on one of them, “Horseplayers: Life at the Track.” Half of his modest income on the book came from Kindle sales on Amazon. “I don’t know whether Amazon is being greedy or IPG is being cheap, but I’m caught in the middle,” Mr. McClelland said. “What matters to me is getting my books back on Kindle.” Here in Tulsa, EDC operates out of offices on the eastern outskirts in a less-than-glamorous district of warehouses and auto supply shops. Like IPG, it is primarily a distributor, selling picture books developed in England by Usborne Books to toy stores and bookshops in the United States. Its publishing line, Kane Miller, produces the popular “Everyone Poops” book and its sequels. EDC’s so-called consultants — a direct sales force of about 7,000 women — sell to friends and acquaintances as well as their local schools. For a while the party plan was successful. Sales more than doubled from 2000 to 2004. In recent years, though, the consultants have found it rough going. They would pass around a picture book like “The Noisy Body Book” or “Guess How Much I Miss You,” talking it up, and then the customer would order it online. Sales fell about 20 percent. Frustrated consultants began quitting. What happened in February to Christy Reed, a sales consultant in Pleasanton, Tex., was becoming all too routine. Her school district decided to order 16 copies of a science encyclopedia and a science dictionary but then completed the deal on Amazon. “I worked so hard to sell those books,” Mrs. Reed said. “I had to talk to so many different people. Then I lost the sale to a couple of clicks on the computer.” She acknowledged that the district saved a few dollars but added: “I’m here, in the neighborhood. I went to school here. My kids went to school here. Yes, they got the books for less. But my earnings go back into our community. Amazon’s do not.” After Mr. White, EDC’s chief, heard about that episode, his exasperation with Amazon peaked. Several times in the past, he had grappled with the retailer. He tried to get it to lower its discount on his books three years ago, but a tentative deal did not stick, he said. He was outraged that the company did not collect sales tax, which had the effect of making its books even cheaper. Two months ago, he asked his biggest wholesaler, Baker & Taylor, to stop selling all EDC books to Amazon. When Baker & Taylor refused, Mr. White canceled its account. Baker & Taylor declined repeated requests to comment about EDC. Of EDC’s $26 million in annual revenue, Baker & Taylor was responsible for about 6 percent, most of which was because of Amazon. Mr. White, a trim 70, said that when he made the decision to bail out, his blood pressure soared. But he’s also reveling in the excitement, just a little. He commissioned a drawing of EDC in the role of David taking on the giant Amazon. “I’m Type A,” he said. “I don’t mind a fight.” Somewhat to Mr. White’s surprise, EDC is doing better without Amazon, at least for the moment. (Some of its books are still available on Amazon from third-party sellers.) Sales in March rose, in part because of new accounts like a toy store in Round Rock, Tex., that placed an initial order for 61 books. And colleagues in the business have been congratulating the publisher, or at least expressing their admiration for Mr. White’s guts. “I tell them, ‘You never had the chance to make 7,000 women happy in one day,’ ” he said. Buy here and save: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Save 40% and more! 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If you're the kind of person who is delighted to stumble across one strange new word in a book, you may find reading this enormous volume to be an almost excessive pleasure. EnlargeiStockphoto.com The "snow parties" of the last century popularized "waxing," the pouring of maple syrup on snow to produce a chewy candy. Flip open Volume V, and there it is: wax, or maple sugar wax, or wax on snow, used largely in the northeast, but apparently extending as far west into maple sugaring country as Wisconsin. The dictionary includes a 1954 quotation suggesting that festivities similar to the Ingalls family's continued into the 20th century: "Now and then 'snow parties' do take place these days, with singing and dancing in the kitchen by the stove and the chief point of the party, eating 'wax on snow.'" Like the Oxford English Dictionary, this series builds a history of each word through chronologically ordered quotations, many taken directly from field interviews with local "informants." For this reason, the Dictionary is a book you can actually sit down and read — not just for colorful words and quotations, but also for a tour of actions, objects, creatures and categories central to far-off or vanished pockets of American life. Some entries point to regionally distinctive obsessions. It makes sense that seafaring inhabitants of the New England island of Nantucket would need a word, slatchy, for a sky that mingles stormy weather with patches of blue, or that in the South, where sweetened iced tea flows like water, the peculiar alternative must be distinguished as unsweet tea. But more of the terms seem simply to reflect our past. It's striking to note all the words for the diverse things people used to invent and make — games (three-kitten-mitten), food (soft pie), and so on — which have now been replaced by nationally marketed, off-the-rack products (Angry Birds, Oreos). 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(Vinegarroon, according to the Dictionary, is another name for the frightening whip scorpion, which emits a vinegary stench when provoked). Such marvelous words are sprinkled through our national literature; without your own team of roaming lexicographers, there is probably no easier way to browse America's past ways of living and talking than to read its books. But Dictionary of American Regional English gathers all these terms into one place, together with samples of the voices and stories and songs that gave rise to them. It's the rare American book whose roots extend not just to one region but to all of them. Amanda Katz is a commentator for NPR Books and the deputy editor of the Boston Globe Ideas section. You can follow her on Twitter @katzish. Buy here: <a href="http://www.Anancyenterprise.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.Anancyenterprise.com</a> Free shipping: After $30.00 of purchases. 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Your questions and comments are always welcome! ________________________________________ With Best Regards, AnancyBooks P.O Box 28677 San Jose, CA 95159 Phone number: (408) 286-0726 Fax: (408) 947-0668 Email: <a href="mailto:info@anancybooks.com">info@anancybooks.com</a> African American on "Anansi eBook news: The Author’s Guild Calls Amazon Anti-competitive" http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/anansi-ebook-news-the-author%e2%80%99s-guild-calls-amazon-anti-competitive#post-214 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:11:50 +0000 African American 214@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Anansi eBook news: The Author’s Guild Calls Amazon Anticompetitive AMAZON The Author’s Guild Calls Amazon Anticompetitive By Dianna Dilworth on February 16, 2012 3:28 PM While Amazon may have been at the forefront of turning eReaders into devices that could wirelessly download eBooks, that doesn’t give them the right to try to put every other bookseller out of business, argues The Author’s Guild in a blog post today. The Guild is concerned that Amazon’s innovation could hurt the industry. The blog explains, “those who capture a market tend to be a bit rough on other participants in the market. They also tend to stop innovating.” The post points out Amazon’s contribution to the ongoing evolution of the eBook and suggests that the company should be focused on selling eBooks and good customer service. The post continues: “Amazon’s reward should not have included being able to combine its wireless e-reader, deep pockets, and an existing dominant position in a related, but separate, market — the online market for physical books — to prevent other vendors from entering the e-book market. Amazon’s reward as an innovator, in other words, shouldn’t be getting to wall itself off from competition.” African American on "Anansi eBook news: Writers Explore What It Means To Be 'Black Cool'" http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/anansi-ebook-news-writers-explore-what-it-means-to-be-black-cool#post-213 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:32:50 +0000 African American 213@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Anansi eBook news: Writers Explore What It Means To Be 'Black Cool' In Black Cool, Rebecca Walker collects essays that assemble a "periodic table" of coolness in African-American culture. Walker and artist Hank Willis Thomas, who contributed an essay, talk with NPR's Neal Conan about the ever-evolving definition: from Nike Air Jordans to Barack Obama. Writers Explore What It Means To Be 'Black Cool' by NPR STAFF Writer Rebecca Walker set out to create a "periodic table of black cool." She is the editor of a new collection of essays, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. February 14, 2012 Once just a temperature, "cool" is a word that has come to mean so much more than that: Cool can be applied to an attitude, or a style or a sound — it can even be used to simply mean "OK." In a new collection of essays, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, writers explore the definition of coolness within African-American culture. Writer Rebecca Walker edited the book and compiled a series of essays aimed to build a "periodic table of black cool, element by element." She tells NPR's Neal Conan: "I really wanted to name 'black cool' specifically because I think that the more it's appropriated, assimilated, commodified, the more distant ... the cultural contribution to global discourse becomes from actual black people. If blackness is separated from this aesthetic of cool that comes out of our culture ... we lose the understanding of how much we are actually giving to this world." Black Cool One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker Paperback, 164 pages | purchase nonfiction MORE ON THIS BOOK: NPR reviews, interviews and more Read an excerpt Walker says the book started to write itself when she was a student at Yale University in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Studying under the art historians Sylvia Boone and Robert Farris Thompson, and the writer bell hooks (who uses lowercase letters in her name), first inspired her to explore the myriad meanings of blackness in the United States today. The next moment of information came when she saw then-Sen. Barack Obama emerging from a black Town Car during the 2008 campaign. She says that for her, "he was really, at that moment, the epitome of black cool. And I was drawn to that image because I wanted to decode it and to see where it fit into this Afro-Atlantic aesthetic." Artist Hank Willis Thomas contributed an essay to the book called "Soul." Thomas remembers discovering the concept of cool when he was just 5 years old — wrapped in a box of Nike Air Jordans. "I realized at that very moment that there was something that I could possess, that I didn't feel innately, if I were able to attain that symbol," Thomas tells Conan. Walker stresses that though there are a lot of objects that have become symbols of cool, there's an aspect of "black cool" that should be internalized. "The moment at which we think as a people or as a community that we have to look outside of ourselves for this cosmology that expresses itself through this aesthetic, we're lost," says Walker. As the world has become "increasingly media and advertising-centered," Thomas says he has watched the definition of cool change: "Our values become often very — not jaded, but kind of affected by kind of the onslaught of ... the latest this or the latest that or the best that. What you really believe you are doesn't matter to the rest of the world. And I think that's a lesson that ... so many of us are still contending with." African American on "Anansi eBook news: 5 Myths About eBooks Debunked" http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/topic/anansi-ebook-news-5-myths-about-ebooks-debunked#post-212 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:15:41 +0000 African American 212@http://www.anancybooks.com/forums/ Anansi eBook news: 5 Myths About eBooks Debunked By Dianna Dilworth on February 10, 2012 3:08 PM Here at eBookNewser we’ve been reading eBooks for years, but we realize that many people out there are still nervous about digital books. In fact, last month at the Digital Book World conference in New York, Kelly Gallagher, VP, publishing services at R.R. Bowker, revealed that 74% of book buyers have never bought an eBook. To help make the transition smoother, we’ve put together a list together to demystify eReaders. 1. eBooks don’t feel or smell as good as print books. Do you really read books for how they smell? eBooks have the same great stories as their print counterparts and you can carry around a lot more with you than you can print books. 2. eBooks are expensive. This is not true. eBooks are usually than their hardcover counterparts. Plus there are millions of free eBooks out there in the public domain. And while eReaders used to be fairly pricey these days, you can get an eReader new for less than $100 and they are even cheaper if you get one second hand on eBay. 3. You can’t share an eBook. Not true. Barnes & Noble, Amazon allow eBook lending on Nook and Kindle devices. There are also services like eBookFling that let you swap eBooks with online friends. 4. You can’t check an eBook out of the library. False. OverDrive has partnerships with 1,000 publishers more than 15,000 libraries that make it easy for you to check out titles from your local branch and read them on your device. 5. eReaders are hard to use. If you have used a smartphone or a computer, you can probably figure out how to use an eReader, as most are designed pretty intuitively. In addition, most eReader companies have online tutorials, call centers or even help in stores to help you trouble shoot.