Tag: Neil Gaiman

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News & Notes – 2/15/14

News & Notes – 2/15/14

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: “Winter Weather Disrupts Book Sales” (Publishers Weekly).  No surprise there! Apple’s appeal rejected by… Read more »

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New & Notes – 2/08/14

New & Notes – 2/08/14

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: Ms. Rowling… You’re kidding, right? J. K. Rowling regrets pairing Hermione and Ron. The… Read more »

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News & Notes – 1/04/14

News & Notes – 1/04/14

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: “Authors Guild Appeals Google Ruling” to the Second Circuit Court. (Publishers Weekly)  “DOJ, States… Read more »

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News & Notes – 12/21/13

News & Notes – 12/21/13

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: A first edition of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was recently discovered in the Cleveland… Read more »

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News & Notes – 11/30/13

News & Notes – 11/30/13

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: Today is Small Business Saturday, and author Sherman Alexie is asking book nerds to… Read more »

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News & Notes – 11/02/13

News & Notes – 11/02/13

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: “One Way for an Indie Bookstore to Last? Put Women ‘First’”  Chicago bookstore ‘Women… Read more »

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News & Notes – 10/19/13

News & Notes – 10/19/13

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: Elizabeth Catton’s The Luminaries wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize (Liz Thomson, Publishers Weekly)… Read more »

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Worth Reading: Neil Gaiman on “Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming”

Worth Reading: Neil Gaiman on “Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming”

This.  Omigosh, this.  Read it.  Read the whole thing.   “Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming”   (The Guardian)  Gaiman brilliantly articulates why we need books, and libraries, and why (and how) we should encourage kids to read. ‘We have an obligation to imagine’ … Neil Gaiman… Read more »

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