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California booksellers contend with fires, power outages

Oct 30 2019: Indie booksellers throughout California are contending with mandatory evacuations, power outages, road closures, and air quality issues as fires continue to rage in the state.

The situation in Northern California for many indie booksellers can only be described as ...

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Elena Ferrante's first novel for five years coming from Europa in June 2020

Oct 29 2019: Europa Editions has revealed it will publish Elena Ferrante’s first novel for five years, The Lying Life of Adults, in June 2020. The book will be published in Italy on 7th November 2019 by Edizioni E/O, as reported in September, while Ferrante’s English language ...

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Little Free Library founder's family clash with organization

Oct 29 2019: A year after the death of its founder, Todd Bol, the Little Free Library nonprofit literacy organization and Bol’s family are at odds.

The dispute appears to hinge on the matter of trademarks. Bol, who set up the first book box in front of his mother’s Wisconsin ...

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Congress looking into anti-competitive behavior in the digital library market

Oct 24 2019: The American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a written report to the House Judiciary Committee telling lawmakers that “unfair behavior by digital market actors," including Amazon and some major publishers, is "doing concrete harm to libraries.”

The report, ...

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Major public library system will boycott Macmillan e-books

Oct 16 2019: King County (WA) Library System, the nation's top digital-circulating library has said it will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once the publishers' two-month embargo begins next month.

In her note, executive director Lisa Rosenblum said King County’s ...

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Dav Pilkey credits his ADHD for his massive success. Now he wants kids to find their own ‘superpower’

Oct 14 2019: By any measure in publishing, cartoonist Dav Pilkey is a rock star. The children’s author created his characters Captain Underpants (a superhero for grade-schoolers) and Dog Man (a hound-supercop) while an Ohio second-grader, sitting alone in the hall during class as a ...

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Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019

Oct 14 2019: The judges of this year’s Booker prize have “explicitly flouted” the rules of the august literary award to choose the first joint winners in almost 30 years: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.

The chair of judges, Peter Florence, emerged after more than five ...

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Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89

Oct 14 2019: Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal The Anxiety of Influence and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday at age 89.

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