Scholastic’s New ‘Kids & Family Reading’ Report: Reading Aloud Is Up

Scholastic's biennial Kids & Family Reading Report finds American families are reading books aloud to their children more often. The post Scholastic’s New ‘Kids & Family Reading’ Report: Reading Aloud Is Up appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Press nets Thunberg's speeches and family memoir

Penguin Press will publish the collected speeches of 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference as well as a family memoir, Scenes from the Heart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘The Mueller Report’ Is Officially A Best-Seller

Like previous government documents, the Mueller Report was so highly anticipated that it become a popular book even though anyone can read it for free. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2019-05-02 09:56:47 UTC ]
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Norwegian reading app to launch in the UK

Poio, an app created to help children learn to read, is launching in the UK in June. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookTrust chooses The Cave for Time to Read campaign

Reading charity BookTrust will give 700,000 copies of Rob Hodgson’s The Cave (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books) to school starters in England as part of its Time to Read campaign. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Chia-Chia Lin's ‘The Unpassing,’ a Taiwanese family in Alaska searches for home

A deep melancholy persists in the grim, breathtakingly beautiful debut novel by Chia-Chia Lin, who writes a story set in Alaska that tracks most closely Gavin, the school-age son of a family of four children and two parents with roots in Taiwan — “that junk island,” according to the father,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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White Supremacists Take Over D.C. Bookstore Reading

White supremacists briefly took over a reading by author Jonathan Metzl at the flagship location for Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, shouting “this land is our land” and marching through the store yelling the name of a group that helped to organize the 2017... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon reports record profit with first quarter sales up 17%

Amazon has recorded a record profit of $3.6billion, with its first quarter sales up 17% to $59.7billion. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zayed Award Winner Hussain Al Mutawaa on Children and the Habit of Reading

The 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award winner in Children's Literature counsels the publishing industry to stop 'riding the wave' of typical entertainment and promote issue-based reality in young people's books. The post Zayed Award Winner Hussain Al Mutawaa on Children and the Habit of Reading... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Avengers: Endgame’: Our reporter braved the 65-hour Marvel movie marathon

Along the path to “Avengers: Endgame,” there was a 21-movie pit stop — a marathon viewing of every Avengers-related Marvel film starting with 2008’s “Iron Man” — that included between-film appearances by Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) and Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill), plus Hulk-shaped fruit... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indies report dip in Easter trade as hot weather hits footfall

The sunny weather hit Easter weekend trading for bookshops with some struggling to shift copies, bucking the general trend after research showed High Street footfall actually increased. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Feeling anxious about that stack of books you haven’t read? This video wants to help you

Just in time for World Book Day, filmmaker Max Joseph delivers a visual essay that will soothe your reading FOMO. A recent study found that we spend more than a quarter of the day engaging with digital content. That means, on average, 8.8 hours a day are spent on social media, watching videos,... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2019-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading Agency launches A Chapter A Day challenge

The Reading Agency is challenging people to ditch their phones and rebuild their reading habits to mark World Book Night. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IPA Leaders Tour Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival Ahead of World Book Day

On the eve of Sharjah's year as UNESCO's World Book Capital, the International Publishers Association brass sees the 11-year-old children's reading fair. The post IPA Leaders Tour Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival Ahead of World Book Day appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Mueller report isn’t just a legal document. It’s also the best book on the Trump White House so far.

Review of “Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-04-19 20:30:51 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster prepares Mueller Report ebook release and 'hefty print run'

Simon & Schuster (S&S) is gearing up to release an ebook version of the Mueller Report, with print copies hitting the shelves by the end of the month. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Enquirer and sibling tabloids reportedly sold for $100 million

American Media Inc. is selling the National Enquirer to Hudson News Deputy Chairman James Cohen, according to The Washington Post, letting the embattled publisher jettison the tabloid after being accused of trying to blackmail the world’s richest man. Cohen will pay $100 million for the... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book versions of the Mueller report are coming very soon

Political observers who want to get their hands on a print version of the Mueller report won't have to wait too much longer. An assortment of publishers are rushing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election — publicly released Thursday —... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette publishes Ethnicity Pay Gap report

Hachette has published an Ethnicity Pay Gap report, one of only a handful of UK companies to do so. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This is the tech hack that I used to read books faster

This author stumbled on a new trick that allowed him to finish more business books (and it’s not listening to audiobooks). We all need to read more. Warren Buffett spends 80% of his day reading. Bill Gates reads a book a week. Reading is the only way to stand on the shoulders of the giants all... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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