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Ukrainian publisher Vivat perseveres during Russian invasion

Apr 20 2022: Vivat is Ukraine's second largest publisher, established in 2013 following the merger of two former publishing houses. Its head office is in Kharkiv, Ukraine's largest city after Kyiv, located in the northeast near the border with Russia.

Vivat currently has 3,000 ...

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Kharkiv's cultural life defies constant Russian bombardment with first book presentation during war

Apr 18 2022: Ukraine’s indomitable spirit was on full display over the weekend in Kharkiv, the nation's second largest city, when the publication of a new book was presented in a bomb shelter amid interspersed Russian bombardment.

A Ukrainian translation of the New York Times ...

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Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory

Apr 17 2022: Florida’s education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks from next year’s school curriculum, citing alleged references to critical race theory among a range of reasoning for some of the rejections, officials announced.

The department said in a news ...

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How Barnes & Noble went from villain to hero

Apr 15 2022: After years on the decline, Barnes & Noble’s sales are up, its costs are down — and the same people who for decades saw the superchain as a supervillain are celebrating its success.

In the past, the book-selling empire, with 600 outposts across all 50 states, was ...

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Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives

Apr 15 2022: Over the past month, a motley group of more than 1,300 librarians, historians, teachers and young children have banded together to save Ukraine’s Internet archives, using technology to back up everything from census data to children’s poems and Ukrainian basket weaving ...

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Authors and booksellers mobilize for midterm voters

Apr 13 2022: Writers for Democratic Action (WDA), an organization of some 2,600 authors (and counting), is mobilizing its membership in a national campaign called Book the Vote. WDA will facilitate nonpartisan voter registration for the 2022 midterm election, working with authors, ...

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Print book sales fall 9% in first quarter 2022 after 29% increase in 2021

Apr 11 2022: Unit sales of print books fell 8.9% in the first quarter, which ended April 2, from the same period in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The decline was expected, as first-quarter sales in 2021 soared 29.2% over the first period in 2020. Unit sales were 183....

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Jack Higgins, author of "The Eagle Has Landed", dies aged 92

Apr 09 2022: Henry Patterson, the bestselling novelist who wrote the The Eagle Has Landed, has died aged 92.

The writer died at his home in Jersey surrounded by his family, his publisher HarperCollins said.

Patterson wrote 85 novels, predominantly thrillers and in the ...

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