Over a quarter of a million books will be donated to public housing communities through a new initiative by the National Book Foundation in tandem with the federal government and several nonprofit organizations. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of its Creative Writing Fellowships for fiscal year 2017, as well as its grants to nonprofit organizations for literary publishing projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A dozen years ago, Bob Ticehurst, then 22, quit his day job as an accountant, moved into his parents’ basement in Arlington, Mass., and became one of the first used-book sellers on Amazon’s Marketplace. Since then “MarineBob,” his original handle, has grown his online used-book business under... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]