Among the week's headlines: a good election night for libraries meant a bad one for book banners; a national teachers group met with Scholastic leaders over the company's abandoned program to segregate diverse books; and librarians fired for defending the freedom to read headed to the U.S. Equal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The book is out and as the royal gone awol speaks his truth, you have to ask: if this is Britain’s first family, what are the others like? Day 127 of J.Crew Hamlet and Prince Harry’s memoir has finally dropped. It needed to. I feel like I’ve had babies I’ve been less organised for than this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-10 12:12:55 UTC ]
Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys set the tone for the final afternoon of the ABA's new virtual conference for indie booksellers when she urged them to tap into their superpower: the ability to fight back against book bannings. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Five years ago, when in her late twenties, Emma Gannon released her first book: Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online. It’s a funny and thoughtful memoir which charts her formative experiences on the internet as a Millennial woman born in the same year as the World Wide Web. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-03 14:05:09 UTC ]
Diane Ravitch offers disturbing and inspiring tales from the battle over public schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-31 04:41:30 UTC ]
United campaign by media companies highlights government moves to penalise whistleblowing and criminalise journalism • Lenore Taylor: Concrete action rather than nice words are needed on press freedomThe front page of every newspaper in Australia was blacked out on Monday as part of a campaign... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-20 22:51:36 UTC ]
Recent developments suggest a grim future for digital content in libraries, writes Sari Feldman, unless library supporters find a way to fight back. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook faces lots of criticisms and questions, and while much of this is focused on privacy and security, there are also lots of queries about what is permitted on the platform. To help users to understand what's allowed and what's not, the company has published its Community Standards for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Websites are freaking out over billions in lost revenue and starting to fight back, but there are still legit reasons to block ads.This January marked the 10th anniversary of AdBlock Plus, a browser plug-in that banishes ads from web pages. It isn't the only ad blocker; but AdBlock Plus... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Robert Harris has said that developing dedicated TV books programming is one of the ways in which the BBC can fight back against funding cuts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hardback titles by the likes of John Cleese and Jacqueline Wilson go on sale in race for Christmas bestseller listsTim Walker is expecting queues outside his familys bookshops in Oakham and Stamford on Thursday. Other booksellers up and down the country will be hoping for a similar rush of eager... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A London book market founded by independent booksellers is to launch in Hackney, selling new and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Apple's approach to magazine and newspaper subscriptions and third-party ebook sales stink of the kind of practices that got Microsoft into trouble with trustbusters on two continents during the late 1990s and early 2000s. A year ago, publishers embraced iPad as the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]