Home | About  
NiceLiterature.com is the most your useful website to find literature, poetry, fiction, hypertext, hyperdrama, hyperpoetry, kinetic poetry, visual poetry, interactive fiction and more.

Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Buying Books for Children

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Reading books is a good habit for all. Especially children must cultivate the habit of reading books. The most worst thing in the society is ignorance. To survive in this competitive world, everyone should get knowledge on all issues. So, children must be aware of all the realities in life. Naturally, children like to play. They don’t show much interest in reading books. But, in this modern world so many books are especially written for children to entertain and create interest in them. These books are mainly focus on two important things such as entertainment and education. They play an eminent role in entertaining and guiding the children into a right path.

Children prefer the most interesting and interactive stories. While reading these books they do not loose their interest in the middle of the story. So, by considering and keeping this point in the mind books are written to attract the children. These books are classified into various categories such as traditional books, story books and fiction books.

During their development stage children have various imaginations and lot of questions in their mind. Parents and teachers should guide and create an interest of reading books in the children. So, children books are very helpful and useful for kids to get knowledge about this amazing world. Among all the books children like fairy tales and adventurous story books. To attract the children these stories are described with animated pictures. Children prefer the books which were written in simple language.

Nowadays the parents have many choices of buying books for their children. Various online books stores are present on the internet with which one can get the books on various genres and topics for children of all ages. If you want to look for a book contaning literature and educated content for your children, The Legend of Albion is a perfect choice. This is a story told in poetic form by the American poet and photographer Joseph Randell Sherman.

Intellectually charged with twelve full-color illustrations, authored by PA based artist Gianetta Ellis, this epic poem is a journey of mythic proportions. Hailed as one of the most ingenious and bold literary undertaking in a generation, he shares a splendid narrative of how Great Britain was formed. A young Prince Albion becomes a king when he is but a babe in the arms of a knight forced to rescue him. This same knight helps him on the road of life and in the ways of becoming a leader. Readers follow King Albion through his life – as he matches wits with a wizard, receives his tutelage and tames a dragon until he falls in love and has a son of his own. The road of a king is long and winding. In this case, a king of great legion founds a homeland – a small great nation; indeed, a legend is born.

“The Legend of Albion” is Joseph Randell Sherman’s first epic poem for children. He uses also the pen names of Joseph Randell and Joseph* ~ OneLight*®, is an American ex-pat living in Portugal. As a poet and photographer, his earlier work has been included in six anthologies and been distinguished by a number of international awards. He is the author of “Songs of Love”, a collection of romantic poems, and “Echoes from Within”, a book of haiku. Another creation, “Universes Beyond the Visible ~ Elements of Dream”, is a book of photography with bilingual texts (English and Portuguese) of poetry and poetic prose coauthored with Alexandra Oliveira, his partner.

You can buy “The Legend of Albion” and his other works at the bookstores online. Online bookstores are the most reliable place to search for your child’s favourite books. The best aspect is that you can avail these books easily right from your home. All you need to do is, select the book and order it online.

Three Rules Of Publishing

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Book are published, marketed, sold and distributed the same way they have been since the birth of the business. Certainly prices have changed dramatically, shipments are better coordinated, cover designs have evolved, merchandising has improved, but the basic business rules have not. Today there are still three general rules that apply to the business of publishing.

Rule number one: Every book is guaranteed to the bookseller, meaning, if they don’t sell at the bookstore, the publisher guarantees they’ll take them back. Returned books are as common place as paper and ink. Books have always been returnable. There are few if any retailers still in existence that will purchase newly published non-returnable books. The fallacy of this is that today, 2008, there are still some publishers that force their authors to pay several hundred dollars for the right to have their book considered returnable. Returnable books should be standard for any book contract. This is a clear example of how some publishers are not fluent in the ways of the business, and as a result they take advantage and prey on the pocketbooks of unsuspecting, and uninformed authors.

Rule number two: The business is about revenue, selling books. However there are two ways to look at revenue. For the Independent publishers and authors, revenue is when a book is sold and the money changes hands, that is a sale and represents the cleanest form of revenue. For the biggest publishers and all the others that want to compete in the marketplace, revenue is both gross and net. Gross is the number of copies multiplied by the cover price. This does not account for the returns that will eventually arrive at the publisher’s warehouse. The net price is what is left after all those books have been returned and counted. The big companies play with these numbers in a variety of ways and if you plan to compete in this market, you must be aware of this fact.

Rule number three: Bookseller real estate is for lease. When you walk into a bookstore and notice all those wonderful displays with multiple copies of the bestsellers, then you stroll down the aisles and look at the covers laying face up on the tables, keep in mind — this is not accidental. These retailers aren’t doing any favors. All of that space has been leased by the publisher of those titles for a specified period of time. In fact, virtually all of the floor space is for lease, if you can afford the price. Typically the front of the store is the most expensive real estate and the price goes down slightly as you move to the back of the store. Bottom line, retail space in major retailers, including bookstores and mass merchants, is for lease.