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Lynne Reid Banks, author of ‘The Indian in the Cupboard,’ dies at 94

Apr 05 2024: Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the best-selling feminist novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with the popular children’s book “The Indian in the Cupboard,” died on Thursday in Surrey, England. She was ...

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HarperCollins tweaks typefaces, saves millions of pages

Apr 02 2024: As you’re racing through a thriller or romance novel, you’re not thinking about the fonts or layout on each page. But a designer has spent hours poring over each element on the page to create the most delightful reading experience. Just ask Leah Carlson-Stanisic, ...

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Small Press Distribution clients scramble to find new distributors

Apr 02 2024: Former clients of Small Press Distribution are still scrambling to find viable options to replace the services provided by SPD before the distributor abruptly shut down last Thursday. SPD provided distribution to about 400 publishers, including a large number of ...

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Barnes & Noble workers plan union drive at largest US bookstore chain

Apr 01 2024: Workers at America’s largest chain of bookstores are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six Barnes & Noble outlets voted to organize over the past year. “Many more” stores will unionize, according to booksellers demanding better pay and conditions. At ...

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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and author, dies at 90

Mar 27 2024: Psychologist and bestselling author Daniel Kahneman, whose research on how decision-making and biases can impact economics earned him a Nobel Prize, died on March 27. He was 90. Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 5, 1934, and was raised in Paris until ...

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Harvard removes binding of human skin from book in its library

Mar 27 2024: The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections. Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique ...

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Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98

Mar 23 2024: Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98. De Brunhoff, who was from Paris and moved to the US in the 1980s, ...

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A Gentleman in Moscow to start streaming March 29

Mar 22 2024: Book Club favorite and one of the Top 20 BookBrowse Books of 2016, A Gentleman in Moscow is premiering as an eight part series on Paramount Plus on 3/29.  The series stars Ewan McGregor as Count Rostov - you can read more about the book and our beyond the book ...

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