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Furor over Elsevier escalates The protest against academic journal publisher Elsevier continues to grow explosively, with another 1,000 professors joining the 5,000 we reported yesterday who have signed a petiton vowing not to peer-review or… 2 / Read more »
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OFFER: In celebration of Imre Kertész I’m 82. I’m ill. My reaction has been to settle here, in Berlin. Act? I can only do that by writing. And yet when I do, it doesn’t have any… 1 / Read more »
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Amazon has far fewer Prime subscribers than analysts thought, says report It’s often noted — but seems in another way to be generally disregarded, by Wall Street and media alike — that the terrific sales often touted by Amazon are, well,… Read more »
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How librarians should talk to patrons about Penguin … and not OverDrive While noting “Penguin did NOT stop doing business with libraries. They stopped doing business with OverDrive,” librarian Bobbi Newman, at her Librarian By Day blog, nonetheless provides scripts for librarians about… Read more »
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SLIDESHOW: What would Humbert Humbert’s ‘Wanted’ poster have looked like? Here’s an idea you’ll wish you’d had yourself: framing your favourite literary characters as criminals at large. New Tumblr The Composites runs descriptive passages from works of fiction through police composite… Read more »
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Stylin’ Gabriel Garcia Marquez? “Fashion designer Carlos Campos first read Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera when he was a teenager. And the book stayed with him: The designer, now 39,… Read more »
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Hail & Farewell: Ronald Fraser The English historian Ronald Fraser has died. He was the author of a number of books on Spanish history including In Search of a Past and In Hiding, which Arthur Miller… Read more »
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Another famous indie up for sale: Pittsburgh’s Mystery Lovers Bookshop When Dickens fell out with America E.L. Doctorow remembers John Leonard RWA backlash helps its opposite bill, the FRPAA Indie… Read more »
