For decades now we’ve become accustomed to tossing all sorts of things into the recycling bin, like glass bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard. One category, however, that still isn’t on everyone’s list is consumer electronics. Over a billion phones were purchased in 2022, and that’s just one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-21 13:15:24 UTC ]
Don Winslow’s gritty book, set in Rhode Island, is a welcome entry to the American-mob canon Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-26 11:00:09 UTC ]
Despite opposition from the AAP, library e-book bills are now pending in five state legislatures, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Tennessee, and Missouri. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Oscar-winner and all-around Renaissance woman Viola Davis is going to put her life story (so far) to paper. The actor will publish a memoir, Finding Me, with HarperOne. Davis will discuss her tumultuous childhood growing up in Rhode Island, including poverty and family strife, to her rise as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-22 15:04:57 UTC ]
The Maryland legislature this week became the first to pass legislation that would ensure libraries can license digital content that is available to consumers. Similar legislation is pending in New York and Rhode Island. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
The suit revolves around a 2013 law designed to help creative workers in the state by offering authors, composers and artists in Rhode Island a sales tax exemption. But in a bizarre twist, the state’s tax officials have ruled that the tax break applies only to authors of fiction, because... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
New bookstores to open in Rhode Island and Virginia; the Seattle Mystery Bookstore to close, a list of gay bookstores around the world; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
HBG charters a private bus for a 280-mile day trip, taking 26 editors and publishers (plus one reporter) on a sojourn from New York to bookstores in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon ups its sales tax collection to 36 states and the District of Columbia; new owners for store in Rhode Island and Wisconsin; a long-time Maine bookstore to close; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A California bookstore expands; stores in Rhode Island and Oregon get ready to sell; a bookstore marks its first seven decades; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rhode Island gets a bookstore bar; BAM's used book concept spreads to two more states; National Coloring Day prep begins; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
New stores are opening in Tulsa and Cleveland, while a store in Rhode Island is celebrating its fifth anniversary as an indie after converting from a Waldenbooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Porterville Recorder has been sold to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, Inc., effective Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers is a privately owned publisher of several daily and weekly newspapers in Rhode Island. It will be b ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]