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Tariffs on books from China suspended

Jul 07 2019: Publishers are holding their breath to see if President Trump’s decision to postpone the imposition of 25% tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods imported from China will become permanent.

The new tariffs, which included books, were proposed this spring. But after ...

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Why should authors read your bad reviews?

Jul 02 2019: After Angie Thomas requested that she not be tagged into negative reviews of her books on social media, she has received a torrent of abuse.

History has yet to find the book that is universally adored – or the author who enjoys reading bad reviews. While Angie Thomas...

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Want kids to learn the joy of reading? Barbershops and laundromats can help

Jul 02 2019: At dozens of barbershops and laundromats across the United States, the sound of children reading aloud mingles with the buzz and snip from barbers’ tools or the din of washers. Makeshift shelves and crates hold books featuring cartoon characters, stories about pigeons ...

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American Library Association votes to take e-book issues to the public and Congress.

Jun 26 2019: With concern in the library community continuing to grow over their ability to provide access to digital content, the Council of the American Library Association yesterday passed a resolution to ramp up its advocacy efforts—including taking the issue to Congress.

The...

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What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues

Jun 23 2019: Amazon sells substantially more than half of the books in the United States, including new and used physical volumes as well as digital and audio formats. Amazon is also a platform for third-party sellers, a publisher, a printer, a self-publisher, a review hub, a ...

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Librarian of Congress names Joy Harjo the nation's 23rd Poet Laureate

Jun 20 2019: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Joy Harjo as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-2020. Harjo will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season on Sept. 19 with a reading of ...

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ABA president testifies regarding proposed tariffs on Chinese goods - 25% of all books, and the great majority of children's books are printed in China

Jun 19 2019: Among the book world people who testified yesterday at a hearing before the U.S. International Trade Commission about proposed tariffs on Chinese goods was Jamie Fiocco, president of the American Booksellers Association and owner of Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, N.C. In ...

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Alan Brinkley, leading historian of 20th-century America, dies at 70

Jun 19 2019: Alan Brinkley, "one of the pre-eminent historians of his generation, with a specialty in 20th-century American political history," died June 16. He was 70. Brinkley's work "spanned the full spectrum of the last century's seminal events and influential characters, ...

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