2.2M Students Used OpenStax Free Textbooks in 2018

OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University that publishes free textbooks, reports that more than two million students at U.S. colleges used at least one of its textbooks during the 2017-2018 school year. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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BookExpo 2018: Children's Authors Tell Booksellers: 'We Are All Dreamers Here'

Emcee Jacqueline Woodson set the tone right away for Friday morning’s children’s book and authors breakfast at BookExpo, explaining, “Through our narratives, we’re trying to change this crazy world.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Industry Stocks: May 2018 Performances

May was a quiet month for both the stock market and the Publishers Weekly Stock Index. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Abbi Jacobson: Getting Real with Comedian Chris Gethard

“Feeling cool, calm, and collected about this,” tweets Abbi Jacobson, about her upcoming book. However, the title, 'I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff' (Grand Central, Oct.) hints at the opposite. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Laurie Keller: The Clothes Make the Potato

When Potato—the star of 'Potato Pants!' (Holt/Ottaviano, Oct.)—hears about a one-day sale on potato pants (pants made out of potatoes, of course!), he is so excited, he starts doing the robot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Porochista Khakpour: Illness as Metaphor

“My goal is no longer a perfect body or hair. My goal is to live to be an old woman,” says Iranian-American novelist Porochista Khakpour. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Beschloss, Dyson, and Goodwin on Leadership

Political books have been a particularly hot category in 2018, starting with the publication of Michael Wolff’s 'Fire and Fury' at the beginning of January and continuing with James Comey’s 'A Higher Loyalty.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2018: Deborah Harkness: From Campus to the Macabre

Deborah Harkness, history professor at the University of Southern California, was riveted by the alternate world of the Twilight series, a free-spirited departure from the 16th-century Elizabethan era that was her specialty. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Colleen Hoover: A Very Busy Bookworm

Colleen Hoover makes the time to oversee a subscription box program and specialty bookstore that together have raised more than a million dollars for charity. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Amber Tamblyn: No More Victims

Just weeks before the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit and the #MeToo movement went viral, actress, writer, and film director Amber Tamblyn wrote an ardent 'New York Times' editorial about how she was done with not being believed about her own harassment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Hoopla Turns Five

This summer Hoopla, the digital arm of Midwest Tape, which provides digital media lending services for more than 1,600 U.S. and Canadian public libraries, is marking its fifth year since startup. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: April Genevieve Tucholke Visits New Fictional Terrain

With 'The Boneless Mercies' (FSG, Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Sally Field: Putting It Together

Award-winning actress and director Sally Field has kept personal journals for decades and always intended to keep her writing private. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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'Make textbook funding a priority', PA tells government

The Publishers Association has recommended that the government makes funding for textbooks a priority. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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BookExpo 2018: Sara Franklin: ‘At the Table with Edna Lewis’

Before Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, or Food Network star Ina Garten, there was Edna Lewis (1916–2006). The granddaughter of former slaves, she gained renown for her cooking and cookbooks that revived refined Southern cooking. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2018: CEOs See a Stable Book Industry in an Unstable World

For the book business, print and digital markets have found balance, CEOs say, but political instability in the culture at large remains a cause for concern. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Gender and Identity in SFF

Four Tor authors—Charlie Jane Anders, Seth Dickinson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. Schwab—discuss identity, characters, and worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Is Social Media Poetry Just a Trend?

Is social media poetry on Instagram, tumblr, and other platforms here to stay, or is it a passing fad, like coloring books? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2018: Open Road Integrated Media and Ingram Team Up

Open Road Integrated Media, a content company that delivers a variety of digital experiences for readers, recently announced a new strategic alliance with Ingram Content Group to expand consumer reach and boost how readers discover new books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2018: Booksellers Share Their Hot Picks

Rounding up this year's big books of BookExpo, according to booksellers on the show floor, range from the former first lady's upcoming memoir to a work of autofiction written by a convicted bank robber. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2018: Workman at 50, Keeping It Small

In 1968 Peter Workman founded the company that bears his name with a single book, 'The Yoga 28-Day Exercise Program,' which is still in print. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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