A new library in Texas appears to be normal, until you realize it doesn’t have any books in it. In Bexar County, Texas, the center of the San Antonio metropolitan area’s breakneck growth, a population boom has left some residents without adequate library access. A new initiative will fill that void with new centers of knowledge that look a lot like libraries--but with an important exception: locals who enter won’t find a single book on its shelves. Welcome to the BiblioTech, the country’s first bookless public library system.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 17, 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a reply brief filed on January 15, Apple attorneys reiterated its argument that the Supreme Court should review their ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Exclusive Books has redesigned its flagship Johannesburg store, with the result breaking “the shackles and restraints of the chain-store mentality” in order to make books “sexy” again. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a December ruling, Judge Denise tossed a case filed by three defunct ebook retailers that claimed that the 2010 conspiracy among Apple and five publishers to fix ebook prices forced them out of business. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 10, 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-Book lending is on the rise in libraries, but is the current market sustainable? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Joanna Trollope have led a wave of “tremendous support” for CILIP’s legal fight for libraries as its campaign petition tops 7,000 signatures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended January 3, 2016. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A shuffling step carries Leonard Bernstein onto Grand Avenue. The pilasters and garlands of the PacMutual Building rise above him. Nearly 70, a balding man with a gray cattle-catcher mustache, he finds his keys and stoops to the lock in the threshold. Two bells tied to a red ribbon jingle as the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an opposition brief filed on December 23, the U.S. Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court not to hear Apple’s appeal in the long-running ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended December 20, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended December 13, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new nationwide library campaign will hold the government to account over its legal responsibilities towards libraries and has called on local authorities to put all changes to library services on hold or risk breaching the law. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In all, seven briefs have been filed in the case, at least five of which support Apple’s contention that the lower courts erred in finding Apple had conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scottish authors Val McDermid and Ian Rankin have expressed their anger at Fife council’s plans to close 16 libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey series has claimed five spots on Apple's iBooks 2015 best-selling fiction chart while Jeffrey Archer has claimed four spots and Lee Child has two. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended December 6, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philly’s Locust Moon comics store will close but continue its publishing program and its annual comics festival. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's that time of the year where predictions start flying. Most companies have a roadmap for what will really happen, but predictions about what's possible are always fun. It's shocking how many old science fiction books got it right with things like video phone calls and more. Arthur C. Clarke... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Page also says publishers must ‘understand mobile’ and put smartphone communication at the centre of thinkingThe chief executive of publisher Faber & Faber has challenged the book publishing industry to respond to the rapid increase in smartphone use, particularly by young... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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