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Nov 17 2020: News Corp. (which owns HarperCollins) and Penguin Random House are the leading bidders for Simon & Schuster, according to the New York Times, which cited "three people familiar with the process." S&S was put up for sale in March by ViacomCBS, which characterized the ...
Nov 09 2020: Lockdown, the noun that has come to define so many lives across the world in 2020, has been named word of the year by Collins Dictionary with a 6000% increase in usage compared to 2019.
Other pandemic-related words such as coronavirus, social distancing, self-isolate...
Nov 09 2020: A Sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft has been made by one of Britain’s most important and sometimes controversial artists, Maggi Hambling (and the statue has already raised considerable controversy.) The unveiling on Tuesday follows 10 years of trying to raise the £143,...
Oct 30 2020: With the Covid-19 pandemic resurgent around the globe, Penguin Random House this week announced that it is extending its Open License for online story time and read-aloud videos through March 31, 2021. The program was first announced in March of 2020 to encourage ...
Oct 29 2020: Writers Against Trump, an association of American authors and writers working together to oppose Donald Trump and to encourage voter turnout, is planning a series of post-election events on November 5, in partnership with several independent bookstores around the ...
Oct 28 2020: Little Free Library, the nonprofit organization that promotes literacy through unconventional projects, has launched its newest initiative. Working with Colle McVoy, a Minneapolis creative agency, Read in Color will distribute books on racism and social justice, as well...
Oct 27 2020: One of New York’s oldest bookstores pleaded for help from customers — and help poured in.
Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstores, took to Facebook and Twitter on Friday to say the business was “unsustainable.” Sales had slumped 70 percent since 2019 because...
Oct 26 2020: An article at Vox explores how independent bookstores in the USA are doing everything they can to stay in business:
.... Powell’s and other independent bookstores across the country face an uncertain and undoubtedly difficult future: Government assistance has dried ...
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