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Wholesaler Baker & Taylor dropping bookstores; Indies unhappy

May 02 2019: Baker & Taylor has made it official: it is leaving the wholesale retail book market. The move was hinted at when it became public late last year that the company was in talks to sell its retail operations to Ingram and then in the departure over the last few months of ...

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She pulled her debut book when critics found it racist. Now she plans to publish

May 02 2019: The New York Times takes on the tricky topic of YA authors being censored by readers within their own communities--focusing in particular on 26 year-old Amélie Wen Zhao who asked her publisher, Delacorte, to withdraw her debut novel, Blood Heir, six months before ...

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James Holzhauer's winning Jeopardy strategy: The children's section at the library!

Apr 30 2019: "I have a strategy of reading children’s books to gain knowledge. I’ve found that in an adult reference book, if it’s not a subject I’m interested in, I just can’t get into it. I was thinking, what is the place in the library I can go to to get books tailored to make ...

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How the mayor’s children’s books set off a scandal in Baltimore

Apr 28 2019: The political corruption scandal roiling Baltimore, leading to an FBI raid of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s house Thursday morning, all began with a children’s book.

Pugh, who has been serving as the city’s mayor since 2016, is at the center of a controversy that started ...

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Mueller Report books start hitting stores

Apr 26 2019: Despite the widespread availability of digital copies of the Mueller report, the three publishers that have announced plans for print editions remain convinced that there will be robust demand for both their physical copies as well as e-books...

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"The Clockwork Condition": lost sequel to "A Clockwork Orange" discovered

Apr 25 2019: A lost “sequel” to Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, in which the author explores the moral panic that followed the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of his novel, has been found among papers he abandoned in his home near Rome in the 1970s.

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Tiajuana Anderson Neel, Pulpwood Queens executive director, dies unexpectedly

Apr 24 2019: Tiajuana Anderson Neel, executive director of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Reading Nation, died April 19. She was 65. The Longview News-Journal reported that Neel "loved to read books and became a loyal member of the Pulpwood Queens Bookclubs.... In 2018 she was the ...

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Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult

Apr 24 2019: The family and estate of JRR Tolkien have fired a broadside against the forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult as a young version of the author, saying that they “do not endorse it or its content in any way”.

Out in May, and starring Hoult in the title role and ...

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