Are librarians rethinking their anger at HarperCollins? From the Damndest Things category: According to Michael Kelley latest column for Library Journal’s “Digital Shift,” One year ago, when HarperCollins Publishers implemented its 26-loan cap for library ebook lending, the new… Read more »
New book says Nixon was just collateral damage for an ambitious Deep Throat Jack Shafer has high praise for a new book about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s Watergate reporting and their most famous source, W. Mark Felt. The book is Leak: Why… Read more »
The best children’s book of all time? In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic’s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the… 3 / Read more »
VIDEO: Daniel Alarcón launches Spanish-language Radio Ambulante The novelist Daniel Alarcón is looking for funding for a new initiative, and it’s a good one: he and his colleagues at Radio Ambulante aim to create a Spanish-language radio… Read more »
Technology 1.0 vs Technology 2.0 We read the following exchange in a tech column by Steve Alexander in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Q: I bought a Sony e-book reader last year, but now I’d prefer… Read more »
B&N quarterlies hit Amazon Syndrome: Income up, earnings down Are Education Publishers Really Innovating? Whatever happened to digital audio books? Ian Rankin: Publishers need authors, but authors really need publishers… Read more »