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Can Goodreads be saved?

Jan 03 2024: Writing in the New York Times, Maris Kreizman, a book critic and the host of the podcast "The Maris Review," takes a critical look at Goodreads:

If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a doozy. It involves a debut...

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Californian librarian becomes TikTok and Instagram sensation with his upbeat take on libraries.

Jan 03 2024: However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.

In fact, Mr. Threets has leveraged the ...

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New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

Jan 02 2024: The New York Times this week filed suit against Open AI and Microsoft over the unauthorized use of its intellectual property in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The suit, which the Times said is the first by a "major American media organization...

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Jilly Cooper, Kate Mosse, Charlie Mackesy, and Alexander McCall Smith recognized in New Year's Honors list.

Jan 02 2024: Authors Jilly Cooper, Kate Mosse, Charlie Mackesy, and Alexander McCall Smith were among those recognized in King Charles III's second New Year's Honors list.

Cooper was made a dame for services to literature and to charity, after receiving a CBE in 2018. Mosse was ...

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Judge blocks most of Iowa's book-banning, anti-GLBQT law

Jan 02 2024: Federal district court judge Stephen H. Locher has issued a preliminary injunction against most parts of an Iowa law whose penalties were to take effect yesterday. The law, signed by Governor Kim Reynolds last May, forbids school libraries and classrooms from carrying ...

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Jan 1, 2024: Public Domain Day

Dec 22 2023: On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. This year’s highlights include Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, The ...

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All-American lineup for oddest book of the year award

Nov 30 2023: The six-book shortlist has been unveiled for the 2023 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year, and all are from American publishers. The winning title is chosen by members of the public via an online vote, and a winner announced December 8. This year's ...

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"Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker prize

Nov 26 2023: Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny. It was described as a “soul-shattering and true” novel that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current ...

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