After Ereaders: Getting Down to Content
Blio to offer 'multi-modal presentation'; of contentCopia highlights text-based social networkingAs ebook stores proliferate, EFF urges caution over privacy and content rightsMany of the stories from...
View ArticleALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting: Trigiani Wins Genre Award, Calls Mom (Video),...
Adriana Trigiani, author of Very Valentine (HarperCollins, 2009), won top honors in the RUSA Reading List for genre fiction in the women's fiction category. The announcement came Sunday night at the...
View ArticleToward a Human-Centric Internet: Jessamyn West Interviews Jaron Lanier
Reading print-on-paper books about the fragmentation of texts and the freeing of information seems fitting. Jaron Lanier admits as much in the opening to You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (see review,...
View ArticleStaff Changes and Cuts at Borders, BarnesandNoble.com, Ingram
There have been several reports of layoffs and consolidations among book retailers and wholesalers; it's hard to tell whether it represents restructuring or retrenching.Publishers Weekly reports on a...
View ArticleThree Institutions Share $3000 Alibris Collection Award
Seventh annual grantApplication deadline in the fallOne winner is still replacing books lost in 1987Online new and used bookseller Alibris has named three winners of the 2010 Alibris Collection Award,...
View ArticlePrepub Mystery
Albert, Susan Wittig. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree. Berkley Prime Crime. Jul. 2010. 320p. ISBN 978-0-425-23445-7. $24.95.In the first in a new series from the best-selling Texas-based...
View ArticleLibrary Journal, School Library Journal Bought by Media Source
From a press release issued today: Ohio-based Media Source Inc. announces today that it has acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information-US.The acquisition...
View ArticleWith Sale of LJ and SLJ, PW To Stay the Course
With the sale of Library Journal and School Library Journal, what happens to longtime sibiling publication Publishers Weekly?PW reports:Jeff DeBalko, president of Business Media at Reed Business,...
View ArticleFeatured Giveaway: Sam Savage's The Cry of the Sloth
Who could not love Firmin, that rascally rat who learned how to read and gave us a street's-eye view of 1960s Boston decay and renewal in Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife? Firmin was 2006's...
View ArticleFeatured Giveaway: Jeannette Walls's Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls's new work, Half Broke Horses (Scribner), is subtitled A True-Life Novel, and that seems about right. After the coruscating truths of her memoir, TheGlass Castle, she's chosen to retell...
View ArticleFeatured Giveaway: G.A. Bradshaw's Elephants on the Edge: What Animals...
The well-being of animals matters, and not only because, as Jeremy Bentham said, 'The question is not whether they can talk or reason, but whether they can suffer.'; What's more, we're in this world...
View ArticleBookExpo America: Galley Grabs and Great Eats
Don't even think about attending BEA without first consulting LJ's inside line on top freebies and great places to eat when your day is done. First up is Book Review Editor Barbara Hoffert's six...
View ArticlePrepub Mystery
Armstrong, David. Written Out. Severn House. Oct. 2009. 224p. ISBN 978-0-7278-6779-7. $28.95.Is a novelist's disappearance an evil plot or an innocent affair? Detectives Frank Kavanagh and Jane Salt...
View ArticleBookExpo America 2009: At LJ's Day of Dialog, Publishers and Librarians...
Moving onlineLibrary use in tough timesHot PicksMonster lit Echoing Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, several panelists at Library Journal's annual Day of Dialog at BEA agreed "Never...
View ArticleBookExpo America 2009: Librarians'Picks ofthe Showat Book Shout and Share
So, what were the must-have titles at BEA? After circling the show floor for two days, eight librarians with collection development or readers' advisory backgrounds came up with a list and presented...
View ArticleBookExpo America 2009: Books and Digital Delivery Dominate Show
Top titlesDownloadable ARCsIn the future, physical books still matterThis year's BookExpo America drew fewer librarians-about 2100-than the blockbuster show in New York in 2007, but it was hard to tell...
View ArticleBookExpo America 2009: Librarians' Book Shout and Share
So, what were the must-have titles at BEA? After circling the show floor for two days, eight librarians with collection development or readers' advisory backgrounds presented their picks in...
View ArticleEditorial: The Book Is Not Dead
For a so-called dying industry, publishing looked prettyalive at this year's BookExpo America (BEA) in New York City. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the attendees who often crowded the aisles and...
View ArticleQ&A: Stieg Larsson
When journalist Stieg Larsson died in 2004, he left an impressive record of fighting right-wing extremism in his native Sweden and three crime novels. Although he lived to enjoy the Swedish publication...
View ArticleIngram Content Group Organized to Serve Libraries
Organizational structure announced"Market-focused" organizationServices to libraries, publishers groupedSome three weeks after the integration of Ingram Book Group, Ingram Digital, and print-on-demand...
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