An IT manager at the National Library of Scotland has been jailed for defrauding the library of £500,000. According to a report in the Scotsman, “Chief information officer David Dinham… Read more »
“These are dark days for the book business,” an article in The Economist tells us, citing the shrinking retail space available to book buyers and sellers with the demise of… Read more »
“Brazil is cutting prison terms for inmates who hit the books behind bars,” says an Associated Press wire story. “The law published Thursday in the official gazette says prisoners will… Read more »
A Guardian (UK) story reports that Turkish publisher, Sel Yayincilik, faces obscenity charges for its Turkish-language publication of the William S. Burroughs novel The Soft Machine, which was originally published… Read more »
While the nation’s librarians’ are off at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in New Orleans, we thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at who these… Read more »
“Donald Trump has signed a deal to present his political philosophy in a new book.” according to this report on the Digital Spy website. The book was originally, “Designed to… 2 / Read more »
The Washington Post brings us this report on a women’s book group that met every fourth Sunday to discuss books and to socialize. That is, until the fateful day when… 2 / Read more »
The below video from The Rachel Maddow Show outs ex-Vice President Dick Cheney as copying the image a certain Democratic president for his book cover photo of Cheney’s soon-to-be-launched book,… Read more »
A post on Wired.com points us to this amazing video of the University of Chicago’s new, state-of-the-art , fully automated, Joe and Rika Mansueto Library,”The building, a mammoth sunlit elliptical dome… 2 / Read more »
The UK Telegraph reports on a new study showing older women who own e-book readers are more willing to engage in e-book piracy than music piracy, “One in eight women… Read more »