Jan 18 2010: This year's Newbery Award winner is When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. Jerry Pinkney's The Lion & the Mouse won the Caldecott Medal.
Jan 18 2010: The New York Times is reportedly getting ready to charge readers for access to the newspaper's online content. An announcement is expected in the coming weeks of a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a limited number of free articles before being ...
Jan 13 2010: Over 4000 ratings of 26 shortlisted books were submitted for this year's BookBrowse Reader Awards
And the winners are....
Jan 06 2010: In an email to colleagues today, Kirkus Reviews managing editor said the publication, which last month was said to be closing with staff leaving by the end of 2009, is working toward an arrangement with an acquiring company to continue publication.
Jan 05 2010: After years of speculation, Apple is expected to reveal a touch-screen tablet device within the month, though it likely won't ship to stores until March, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal. The device, expected to sell for around $1,000, could include Wi-Fi ...
Jan 05 2010: Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson (author of Bridge to Terabithia etc) has been officially named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in a ceremony at the Library of Congress this morning. She succeeds the first children's ambassador, Jon Scieszka—to...
Jan 05 2010: The first of many broadband stimulus funds awards have been announced, and libraries are among the earliest grantees, though a relatively small percentage thereof.
Of the $7.2 billion in Recovery Act broadband grant and loan programs, $2 billion will be made ...
Jan 05 2010: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín has won the Costa Novel of the Year award (formerly Whitbread Award) over a shortlist that included Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
Other winners were Christopher Reid in the poetry category for A Scattering; Graham Farmelo in the biography ...
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