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Jan 19 2022: Literati, the Austin, Tex., subscription book box and online book club company, has purchased Follett Book Fairs. The fairs will be rebranded Literati Book Fairs and will continue to service PreK-8 schools around the country.
The fairs first launched in 2017 with 180...
Jan 13 2022: Leading library service provider OverDrive this week reported that a total of 121 public libraries and consortia across seven countries and 37 U.S. states surpassed one million digital lends in 2021. The number represents a significant jump from 2020, when 102 libraries...
Jan 12 2022: The U.S. Mint has begun shipping a new quarter featuring writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher Maya Angelou, who becomes the first Black woman to be featured on the quarter. Coins featuring additional honorees will begin shipping later this year and ...
Jan 06 2022: Unit sales of print books rose 9% in 2021 over 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. 826 million print units were sold last year, a jump of nearly 68 million over 2020 and a whopping 132 million over 2019. The young adult fiction segment had the largest increase,...
Jan 06 2022: A London publishing staffer has been arrested and charged by the FBI with allegedly stealing hundreds of book manuscripts over several years.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on 5th January that 29-year-old Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who works as...
Dec 23 2021: American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from Parkinson's disease, according to Knopf publicist Paul Bogaards. The bestselling writer began describing her home state, California, for magazines in the 1960s...
Dec 22 2021: Carolyn Foote was shocked and angry when hundreds of books about race, equality or sexuality in Texas school libraries were targeted by Republican lawmakers. She and other librarians focused on making their collections more reflective of the increasingly diverse ...
Dec 16 2021: bell hooks, the renowned author, scholar, feminist and activist whose work examined race, class, gender and the ways they intersect, died on December 15 at the age of 69, the Lexington Herald reported. She died at her home in Berea, Ky., surrounded by friends and family...
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