The Internet can often feel like a cesspool of bad intentions, casual cruelty, and hopeless ignorance. Which is why a social networking site like CaringBridge, which allows sick people and their families to give their communities updates on their illnesses, gives us hope for humanity. The site has been around for more than 15 years, and CaringBridge CEO Sona Mehring has just released a new book called Hope Conquers All: Inspiring Stories of Love and Healing from CaringBridge. The book includes several of the most inspiring stories from the CaringBridge archives. Not all of the stories have Hollywood happy endings––which is to say, not every person featured overcame their illness––but there is something positive to glean from each tale of struggle and connection. Here are a few of the most enriching messages. Even Strangers Can Provide Solace A woman named Beth Keathley, who used CaringBridge to keep people in her life aware of her treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, said that a woman she didn't know had been writing in her CaringBridge guest book for a long time. Her brother had the same cancer as Keathley. This stranger wrote to Keathley to tell her the brother had died, "Yet he was alert to the end, surrounded by his family. She called it a good death."Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
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The Borough Press has acquired a collection of short stories inspired by Charlotte Brontë, edited by Tracy Chevalier. Authors contributing stories for the collection, Reader, I Married Him, include Helen Dunmore, Susan Hill and Emma Donoghue. Each will use Brontë's famous line from Jane Eyre as... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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We all know how certain books, read at key moments in our lives, remain memorable and influential for years afterward. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The seventh annual Publishing for Digital Minds Conference kicked off the London Book Fair, with the main exhibits officially opening on Tuesday. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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To listen to the Audio Book Club discussion of How To Be Both, click the arrow on the player below. Continue reading at Slate
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After two U.S. women were charged this week with conspiring to build bombs in support of terrorist groups, a U.S. senator wants two publications that include bomb-making instructions deleted from the Internet.Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, called for the 44-year-old Anarchist... Continue reading at PC World
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Reading science fiction, chick lit and fantasy novels by people of colour for a year brought home to me just how white my reading world wasIn 2014, I managed to read 25 novels. All of them were written by people of colour. That was the result of a small challenge I set myself: not to read books... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Police detective Harry Bosch is the protagonist in Michael Connelly's series, the most recent installment of which is 'The Burning Room.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Open Road Intergrated Media has unveiled a new imprint called Factory Books that will feature memoir, biography and cultural criticism about Andy Warhol's New York City-based studio, The Factory. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Chatto & Windus has pre-empted a debut novel inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream. Publishing director Clara Farmer acquired world rights to The Strawberry Girl by Lisa Strømme from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath. The novel is set in 1893 in a small fishing community in the Norwegian... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The internet was meant to liberate and empower its users. But the real effect has been to create vast monopolies and turn us into victims, argues web sceptic Andrew Keen in his controversial new book The Internet is Not the AnswerDuring every minute of every day of 2014, according to Andrew... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The panel, “The Bookternet: Building Communities Online,” examined the ways that online book culture has transformed the book industry, offering both opportunities and pitfalls for publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Library campaigners in Cardiff believe they "sent a strong message" to the city council with a National Libraries Day protest against planned cuts to the service. More than 200 people gathered outside the city's Central Library on Saturday (7th February) to hold a mass "read-in", with people... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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While January can suffer from a post-holiday publication lull, it's a great time room for cooler, less conventional reads. The post New Fantasy Writers and Internet-Haters Dominate Our Favorite Books This Month appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
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At its heart, Twitter seems to be suffering from some sort of existential crisis, struggling to work out if it's a social network, a messaging service or a publishing platform. Today sees the company launch two features that, if we're honest, only re... Continue reading at Engadget
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Native advertising became a full-blown phenomenon in online publishing in 2014. Here's what we learned about it this year. The post 5 things we learned about native ads in 2014 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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Cengage Learning (EMEA) Ltd, whose parent company Cengage Learning Inc emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings in the US in the spring, has reported turnover of £34.1m in the nine months to 31st March 2014, with a profit after tax of £4.8m. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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We all know that it's against the law to sell copyrighted material, but is it also illegal to tell people about software that can strip DRM off ebooks without the intention to distribute? New York Judge Denise Cote has recently ruled that it's not. .. Continue reading at Engadget
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Here are five of the big publishing trends of 2014, and what we learned. The post What we learned about publishing in 2014 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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Tencent and Baidu are only non-US digital media companies in top 10 by revenue, but country has four of top 10 fastest-growing firms, report saysChina is eroding Silicon Valley’s pre-eminent position as the home of the world’s largest internet businesses, with two companies making the top 10 by... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The discovery of talent via YouTube, a resurgence at Waterstones, the long-running Amazon/Hachette terms dispute and the thinning out of independent publisher numbers were among the significant developments in 2014, according to prominent figures in the industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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