Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 15:45 Oxfordshire council has confirmed it will not withdraw funding from libraries at the end of this year. Under plans unveiled in 2010, 20 libraries in the county were due to lose all funding at the end of December. While a fresh consultation has now begun, there had hitherto been no firm undertaking that the budget cuts would not still be going ahead. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Fnac, the leading French cultural products chain, will lay off 510 of its 17,000 staff and may... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Members of six organisations have announced they will gather to lobby parliament on cuts to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Booksellers Association has dismissed volunteer-run libraries as "unsustainable",... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Print book sales have “remained tough”, hit by consumer caution and growing ebook... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Daily Kobo ebook sales in the UK increased seven times in December as the company revealed one... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Library campaigners on watch outside Brent's Preston Library cried "Shame on you"... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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E-books and audio books on the Web site of the New York Public Library. Publishers are waiting for an industrywide approach to e-lending to gel. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2011-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Simon Callow has donated 1,000 of his own books to the Westminster Reference Library. Most... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Books and the French online publication ActuaLitté have launched a digital library... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The website offering resources for National Libraries Day, the national day to celebrate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Recently appointed shadow libraries minister Dan Jarvis has condemned "mindless closures... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hertfordshire county council has voted through the closure of its school library service. The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The court of appeal has rejected the Brent library campaigners' appeal against the closure of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The court of appeal's judgment on Brent library closures will be given this afternoon (19th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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In November, when Penguin abruptly announced it was pulling its frontlist ebooks from library lending programs, the move was widely perceived as a response to Amazonand a warning that, whatever the outcome of this latest struggle over ebooks, libraries are poised to become collateral damage. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A few days after Amazon announced that the Steve Jobs biography was its top-selling book of 2011 (combined print and ebook sales), the book debuted on bestseller charts around the world, including the three countries highlighted this month. Steve Jobs was #3 in France and the Netherlands, and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Readers Digest Association has eliminated 150 positions across all of its business groups worldwide, with half the cuts affecting jobs in the U.S. and the other half international. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three Twin Cities literary presses already renowned for collaborating in unconventional ways to promote books and authors are partnering with a Wisconsin literacy group and a Minneapolis museum to promote literacy, publicize the mission of each of the nonprofit organizations involved, and sell... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is partnering with Bloomsbury's Public Library Online, sponsoring two of the digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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"Use it, Love it, Join it!" will be the strapline for National Libraries Day, to be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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