News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Harper Lee tells persistent journalist to “Go away!” (Huffington Post) Children’s and YA Authors protest against the gendering of books. GalleyCat has a fairly… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff News and Notes is back from the holidays! Book News How Harry Potter fans won a four-year fight against child slavery (Washington Post). After a four-year… Read more »
I’ve long contended that if I’ve already bought a book in print, I shouldn’t have to pay the full price for the ebook. It seems that finally, a few programs are trying out that idea. First there’s Amazon, whose Kindle MatchBook program lets you buy ebooks at reduced prices if… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Liberty Media sells of most of its Barnes & Noble stocks, reducing its ownership… Read more »
I came across this infographic from Daily Infographic while browsing Pinterest. (see below) It got me thinking… I’ve seen several reports recently about growth slowing for ebook sales. I certainly don’t see paper books disappearing any time soon, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see mass market books largely disappear,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: World Book Night’s book list for 2014 “Health Woes Will Keep Munro From Nobel… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Barnes & Noble is getting out of the tablet business. The company hopes to… Read more »
Worth reading: “The Death of Publishing,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Rusch explains why predictions of the death of publishing were wrong, and how traditional publishers are now making more money while their authors are making less. Cool Stuff: Check out the 3Doodler, a pen that lets you draw… Read more »
artist’s conception of the interior of the BiblioTech Two interesting developments on the library front: In North Carolina State University’s new library, robots bring you the books you want; the stacks are closed to humans. (Flavorwire) And Bexar County, Texas, is about to open BiblioTech, the first all-ebook… Read more »
Remember Reading Rainbow, the PBS children’s show about books hosted by Geordi LaForge – excuse me, Levar Burton? Here’s a nice remix music video put together by John D. Boswell (aka melodysheep) for PBS Digital Studios, entitled “In Your Imagination.” Enjoy! Author Andrea K Höst shares “A Rough Guide to… Read more »
