Among the week's headlines: The National Book Awards are awarded in New York; in Florida, a group of county commissioners double down on their refusal to allow their library to buy a 'New York Times' digital subscription; and Elsevier announces a breakthrough open-access deal with Carnegie Mellon University. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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McDonald's Happy Meal: Books will be served with one of four original titles in Happy Meals for two weeks in the month of November. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Jarvis MP has left his post as shadow libraries minister as the result of a Labour party... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Whether following from abroad or tweeting from the conferences, here are the essential hashtags for The Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten library services around the country will receive a share of £450,000 designed to help... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Public Library recently discovered a treasure trove of video games in its archives created by psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Over 375 floppies (talk about flashbacks) containing a "dozen or so" games developed by the LSD-advocate in the '80s -- some are playable via emulation... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For digital publishers, effectively harnessing data can turn a large but poorly understood audience into the targets advertisers covet, or help predict when certain consumers will be most likely to buy. The Weather Company has figured this out -- noticing that drops in summer temperatures, for... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some subscribers of four Hearst magazines will soon get perfume samples in an apparently new fashion for the industry: via sample vials of Marc Jacobs Daisy and Eau So Fresh attached.The two-and-a-half milliliter tubes will come lightly adhered to 100,000 copies of the November issues of Elle,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Mexico City librarians from Colombia, Mexico and Spain agreed there remained numerous challenges to libraries offering digital content and lending ebooks. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Randolph County Board of Education recently voted to ban Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel from libraries. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penton and NewBay Media each made M&A news this week, while UBM has agreed to sell a second property since Monday's announcement that CEO David Levin intends to step down in 2014. UBM Live, a division of the Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some Sheffield libraries could be turned into wine bars or restaurants with a library attached,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than half of Sheffield's libraries could be closed, unless community groups come forward... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bexar County Digital Library doesn't have printed books – instead it lets patrons check out ebooks and audiobooks. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards is announcing expanded lists of ten finalists for four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult fiction. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Man Booker Prize has admitted that changes are being made to its rules. However the award has... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Our “Cut to the Core” columnists talk with the new ALA president, Barbara Stripling, about the library’s role in supporting the Common Core State Standards—and what’s needed from publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunderland City Council's cabinet has agreed plans to close nine of the city's 20... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The premise of Little Free Library is take–a–book, return–a–book," explains Ian Veidenheimer of The Architectural League of New York, who helped coordinate the project to bring these tiny libraries to New York. When the project has deployed in other cities, the books are usually guarded by a... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In October Amazon launches Kindle MatchBook, an arrangement that lets you purchase the Kindle edition of books you've already bought from them in print for $2.99 or less. The agreement currently covers about 10,000 books from a variety of publishers, and the prices are valid for any book... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst is preparing to launch a digital weekly edition of monthly men's magazine Esquire this week, in an attempt to appeal to younger readers and stem double-digit circulation falls. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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