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Enhanced e-books can deter learning in children, study says New research from the Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center suggests that enhanced e-books negatively affect reading comprehension, according to this report at Digital Book World. The report is the… Read more »
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Penguin v. Random House Here’s something not to be missed from Penguin’s reply to the Justice Department’s antitrust action: an email sent by Penguin Group (USA) CEO David Shanks to Steve Riggio, the president… 3 / Read more »
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The life and work of Ödön von Horváth Ödön von Horváth, author of the novels The Eternal Philistine and Youth Without God — the first in print and the second forthcoming from Melville House — died on this… Read more »
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Terry Pratchett wins book award, booze, pig Earlier this week, prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett won the UK’s only prize for comic writing, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In addition to the prestige and recognition that… Read more »
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AUDIO: Flannery O’Connor reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find” There are very few recordings of the great short story writer Flannery O’Connor. But here’s one (courtesy of Openculture.com). It was made in April of 1959, from a reading O’Connor gave… Read more »
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FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: Bob Dylan & Weird Al Yankovic Time for our weekly installment of music videos that include some sort of literary reference. Today it’s Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” which is literary not only for its poetic… 1 / Read more »
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Future of book marketing is all about BIG DATA The shuttering of university presses Literature banking on slang Building the Amazon Effect Yannick Murphy’s “Oyster City” Arthur Conan Doyle’s former… Read more »
