The Biloxi, Miss., school district has pulled Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" from its curriculum because it "makes people uncomfortable," the Biloxi Sun Herald reports. A member of the school board told the newspaper that the decision was made last week, and was not voted on... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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Hearst Magazines has announced the release of a new ebook aimed at the holiday chef. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Bloomsbury's online Churchill Archive will aim for a school and undergraduate readership as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the beginning of a standing-room-only Frankfurt Book Fair discussion, Richard Mollet, CEO of the U.K. Publishers Association, said he imagined there was a day 100 or more years ago at a book fair when, after yet another panel on how electricity was going to revolutionize the business, an... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Bezos, in the U.K. to launch the Kindle Paperwhite and Amazon's Lending Library service, has told the BBC that his firm makes no money on its Kindles. "We make money from when people use our devices, not when people buy our devices," he told technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. "That... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Quercus is to make a second move into the US with a "startup operation" that will begin... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adam Lancaster has been named the SLA School Librarian of the Year 2012, receiving the award this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Four independent presses have made the shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize, with the winner... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Kobo’s UK manager Phil Wood described booksellers at yesterday's BA conference as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Hallowed comic book character Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, is killed off in the latest edition of Avengers vs X-Men. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new printed book celebrates all of the quirky flaws of the world’s most famous ebook. Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales jumped by more than £1m last week as sales of academic titles helped to offset... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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A new scheme to sell ebooks through schools could benefit school libraries, according to Bilbary... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times Co. named former BBC director general Mark Thompson as its new CEO earlier this week, and now comes word that he will receive a pay package totaling as much as $10.5 million, including an annual salary of $1 million, according to Bloomberg News. Mr. Thompson, who was... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the past five years, licensed books and supplemental educational materials have increasingly made their way into school libraries and classrooms. Educators have come to accept that licensed titles are a way to bring in reluctant readers and sustain interest in subjects like math and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Got an email from a “fan” outraged that a novel I’ve been working on for two years, six days a week is $13 in ebook. Enjoy your $4 coffee. – Author Brent Weeks, via Twitter Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ingram Content Group has announced a new “standard color” pricing model for print-on-demand technology that has reduced costs by roughly two-thirds, making color POD an economical publishing option for the first time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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School libraries are being forced to scrape by on ever-decreasing budgets, according to a new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Legend Press and Bloomsbury both have two books on the £30,000 University of Wales Dylan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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