September 10, 2012

“We’re not just providing materials for one type of device, our customers use Kindles and Nooks and iPads and cell phones and devices we probably haven’t heard of yet.”… 1 / Read more »

Libraries & librarians

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

New Emily Dickinson photo?

Sal Robinson

Some people are phlegmatic about this, but I am not phlegmatic about this. The New York Times even buries the news behind a comment about Pynchon photos, but Pynchon photos… 1 / Read more »

Children and teens ’embarrassed to read’

Ellie Robins

Has the National Literacy Trust stumbled upon the true merit of ereaders? There we all were thinking they’d changed reading habits by upping housewives’ porn intake, when all along we… Read more »

Massive Proust audiobook coming this fall

Naxos AudioBooks has finished recording the audio for Marcel Proust’s notriously long novel, Remembrance of Things Past. Originally published in France between 1913-1927 in seven volumes as A la recherche… 1 / Read more »

Library to cut costs with ads on toilet paper

Claire Kelley

At a time when library funding is being cut in some places and technology is changing traditional patron activity, many libraries recognize the need to be creative and innovative with… Read more »

Melville House Books

Texas librarians bypass publishers and go straight to indie authors to lend ebooks

Ariel Bogle