The Honolulu Stadium 2010 Calendar features twelve months of memories from Mickey Mantle to Elvis Presley, the Hawaii Islanders to high school football. With rare photos and important dates from Arthur Suehiro’s bestselling book, Honolulu Stadium: Where Hawaii Played, both calendar and book celebrate the golden era of Hawai‘i athletics, a time when Honolulu was young and sport was king.

The Honolulu Stadium 2010 Calendar is currently part of a special promotion at Hawaii Barnes & Noble bookstores: purchase a copy of Honolulu Stadium, the book, and receive a complimentary calendar while supplies last at the three Hawaii Barnes & Noble locations (Ala Moana, Kahala Mall and Lahaina Gateway). The promotional period runs now through October 14, 2009.

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Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands by Arnold Hiura, an upcoming release from Watermark Publishing, will be in stores January 2010.

But you can pre-order an advance copy now for holiday delivery via the publisher’s Web site or enter to win a copy in a series of weekly drawings via Facebook and Twitter.

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Watermark Publishing has launched an online giveaway contest to promote upcoming release Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands by Arnold Hiura.

One winner will be selected each week at random to receive a copy of Kau Kau. The contest runs Nov. 2 - Dec. 18, 2009. Kau Kau will debut in bookstores in January, but can be pre-ordered at the publisher’s Web site, www.bookshawaii.net.

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Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest book event in the world, took place October 14-18, 2009. This year it attracted almost 300,000 visitors, plus 10,000 journalists, to the booths of more than 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries. Buddy Bess and Bill Hamilton at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair Bess Press h [...]
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An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com

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Join us in celebrating the release of the latest regular issue of Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts (no. 94), the book launch and reading: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:00 p.m. – reception and book signing; 7:30 p.m. – reading* University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Ballroom FR [...]
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Release of In the Company of Strangers will be celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School (information provided below), followed three weeks later by a reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Book Launch and Reading Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:30 p.m. re [...]
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Fans say he could have been a stand-up comic. Not another author reading but a hilarious show with bits from his book, his life, and his sister Amy’s life.

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Great bargains, you will think. In the short run. How will this trend affect Hawaii publishers and authors? And Hawaii readers? It will probably eventually drive them to ebooks, because if this is a permanent trend, it will make publishing and bookselling of regular books in Hawaii especially difficult.

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“According to my math, I’d be making more money if my books were out of print, and I had my rights back.”

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