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Goodreads' bot problem

Jul 24 2021: Goodreads reviews feel honest until they don’t...Weeding through the weekly Top Reviewers, many profiles appear ordinary. The astonishing number of books read and reviewed per week by the Top Reviewers makes it clear that these profiles are not average, albeit avid, ...

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William F. Nolan (1928-2021)

Jul 21 2021: Author William F. Nolan, 93, died July 15, 2021 of complications from an infection. Nolan was best known for the Logan’s Run series of science fiction novels, the first of which was adapted into a film and TV series.

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Bernette Ford, who made children's books more diverse, dies at 70

Jul 15 2021: Bernette G. Ford, who as an author and editor was a leading advocate of making children’s books more diverse and making sure that people of color had opportunities to write and illustrate them, died on June 20 at her home in Brooklyn. She was 70.

Ms. Ford, whose ...

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Publishers could get tariff refund

Jul 14 2021: Though America’s trade relationship with China is still being reviewed by the Biden Administration, companies, including publishers, who have been paying higher tariffs on imports from that country received some good news last week in a decision issued by the U.S. Court...

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Michael Horovitz obituary

Jul 13 2021: The poet and editor Michael Horovitz, who has died aged 86 after a fall, championed poetry as a vital and democratic force that needed liberating from the academic world and the printed page. His quest began in the late 1950s and when the British underground got under ...

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Barack Obama tells librarians their work is "more important than ever"

Jun 30 2021: In his closing talk at the 2021 American Library Association Annual conference on Tuesday, former president Barack Obama praised libraries as “citadels of knowledge and empathy” and said that libraries were “extraordinarily important” in his own life, and to the nation—...

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Less than 1% of UK high school students study a book by a writer of color, and only 7% study a book by a woman

Jun 29 2021: Research commissioned by Penguin Random House has revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of color while only 7% study a book by a woman.

English students generally study for their GCSEs in Years 10 and 11, ...

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Obituary: Patricia Reilly Giff

Jun 24 2021: Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner and the author more than 100 books for children, died on June 22 at age 86.

Her work included the Kids of the Polk Street School books, the Friends and Amigos books, and the Polka Dot Private Eye books. Several of...

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