TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Fantastic Fiction http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:35:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Book Review: ‘The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler & Other Strange Stories’ by Reggie Oliver http://www.teleread.com/book-review/book-review-the-complete-symphonies-of-adolf-hitler-other-strange-stories-by-reggie-oliver/ http://www.teleread.com/book-review/book-review-the-complete-symphonies-of-adolf-hitler-other-strange-stories-by-reggie-oliver/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:35:23 +0000 Paul St John Mackintosh http://www.teleread.com/?p=93375 Former actor, and playwright and author Reggie Oliver has been named more than once as the rightful successor to M. R. James and Robert Aickman in the English tradition of the weird tale. “The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler,” his second collection from the superlative British independent house Tartarus Press (already featured in TeleRead), is another [...]

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Pay to Browse: Why it will never work for bookstores http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/ http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/pay-to-browse-why-it-will-never-work-for-bookstores/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78903 TeleRead posted earlier about an idea that was floated by Victoria Barnsley, a HarperCollins CEO, during a recent NPR interview: the idea of charging people for the privilege of browsing in bookstores. The idea was that they’d pay to browse, and then go home and order online from the vendor of their choosing. The analogy [...]

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Cyber Monday and the Case of the Disappointed Book Buyer http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/cyber-monday-and-the-case-of-the-disappointed-book-buyer/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/cyber-monday-and-the-case-of-the-disappointed-book-buyer/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:46:15 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=75094 Did you buy any e-books this Cyber Monday? All the major bookstores had big sales going on, with Amazon offering 1,000 books at huge discounts. I was tempted. But ultimately, I did not buy. Why not? Because I’m tired of how much work reading e-books has become for me. I bought from Fictionwise for years [...]

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