Launched in 2013 as a crowd-sourced, paperback teen romance line, Feiwel and Friends' Swoon Reads will now publish novels across all YA genres and formats. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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After a woman recently turned herself in to American authorities and confessed to participating in setting several fires, a judge ordered she read both 'Goliath' and Mary C. Wood's 'Nature's Trust' in addition to serving a prison sentence and completing community service. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From biographies to technical studies and step-by-step guides, here are 10 books that you should look for in the next few months.Of course, we think you can learn a lot online. But, if you're looking to take a deeper dive, there is often no substitute for the kind of thoughtful analysis you can... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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3M Library Systems has announced that Cloud Library eBook Lending System will now launch in Canada—3M’s first international expansion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Pew survey found that e-reading increased as well but that more adults read a print book in 2013 than in the previous year. 'Print remains the foundation of Americans’ reading habits,' the report stated. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Internet has been disrupting the businesses of publishing and bookselling for the past two decades. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After entering the library ebook market last April with a pilot, Simon & Schuster is expanding its program to more libraries, and adding OverDrive as a vendor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Frankfurt Book Fair has confirmed it plans for expansion in Brazil, with a series of CONTEC... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Palgrave Macmillan will publish a guide to the environmental crisis looming in Tibet by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Turning literature into a numbers game makes some sense for the book trade, but none for readersWe may be halfway through January already, but the spirit of new year is still in full swing over in San Francisco, where the 2014 Goodreads Reading Challenge goes from strength to strength to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-books are rising in popularity, but according to the Pew Research Center, print remains the foundation of Americans’ reading habits. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Publishers has entered into an agreement with Guinness World Records for the sales, distribution and fulfillment of their titles in the U.S, effective immediately. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that the percentage of American adults who read an ebook in the past year has risen to 28 percent, up from 23 percent in 2012. Yet the tree book isn't dead yet, at least in the popularity sense, as the results show most ebook... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Science and Education has structured its education division into three global business... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the past 15 years or so, poets and poetry lovers around the world have earmarked January 17 as a day to pay tribute to the late poet and pacifist William Stafford (1914–1993) with public readings from his works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hachette Book Group will be making a couple of big real estate moves this year as it expands its distribution center in Indiana and relocates its New York City headquarters. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan US has acquired recipe and cookbook website Cookstr. The website, founded in New York... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-publishing alliance WestBow will now support Zondervan publishing, as it currently does Thomas Nelson. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week, Ruth Rendell claimed that reading novels is a dying art. Sadly, she might have a pointNo one can say precisely why John Williams's novel Stoner has become a bestseller almost 50 years after its first publication. After all, plenty of books, "forgotten" or otherwise, are recommended by... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading a novel stimulates the brain for days, US researchers have found. The study,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Much as we admired the potential of the YotaPhone in our recent review, we just couldn't overlook its lack of support for popular e-reading platforms like Amazon Kindle and Google Books. That problem hasn't been solved just yet, but things are ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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