Tag: literature prizes

News and Notes – 5/17/14

News and Notes – 5/17/14

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: Castulul Bran, Brasov, Romania. (Photo by Florin73m; used under CC-SA 3.0 license) Dracula’s castle… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/10/14

News & Notes – 5/10/14

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: After the popularity of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, BookCon is adding a panel on diversity… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/03/14

News & Notes – 5/03/14

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: Harper Lee finally agrees to issue To Kill a Mockingbird as an ebook and… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/19/14

News & Notes – 4/19/14

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: The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is… Read more »

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News & Notes – 3/29/14

News & Notes – 3/29/14

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: “Prisoners in Britain denied books, authors launch protest” (Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times) Amazon… Read more »

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News & Notes – 2/22/14

News & Notes – 2/22/14

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: Apple still defiant after losing its appeal over the scope of the court-appointed monitor’s… Read more »

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ALA Awards for 2014: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and more

ALA Awards for 2014: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and more

The ALA announced their 2014 awards this week, and there are a lot of them!  Here are some of the highlights: The Newbery and Caldecott Awards for 2014 go, respectively, to Kate DiCamillo for Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures and Brian Floca, illustrator of Locomotive.  Newbery Honor books for… Read more »

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News & Notes – 1/25/14

News & Notes – 1/25/14

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: Amazon wants to ship stuff to you BEFORE you buy it. Yes, really.  They’ve… Read more »

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