November 24, 2010
The NY Times announced that early next year it will start publishing best-seller lists for both fiction and nonfiction e-books. Amazon Kindle VP Steve Kessel claims that customers are purchasing e-books at more than twice the rate of print books. Shira S.
November 23, 2010
Educator, artist and poet Margaret Burroughs died Sunday. Read about her amazing life and contributions in yesterday’s Sun-Times obituary. Laura (Reader’s Services)
November 20, 2010
In what is becoming more and more the norm, US News & World Report has become the latest magazine to abandon the print landscape to focus solely on digital media. Although it will continue to print a limited number of copies to be available at newsstands, the publisher is going to stop sending its print […]
November 18, 2010
At the eBook Boot Camp seminar I attended today at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, there was some buzz about a new free app for iPod and iPad owners who wish to download free ebooks from their public libraries. It’s called Bluefire, and was just released this last week. There a lot of chit chat […]
November 18, 2010
Stacy Schiff has written a book delving into the life of Cleopatra in a way that hasn’t been done for a while. Schiff focuses more on the ruler’s character and political skill than the Hollywood version many of us are familiar with. (This view corresponds to a National Geographic article I read recently on Cleopatra […]
November 15, 2010
This Vanity Fair article includes some fascinating excerpts from Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe, which reveal Ms. Monroe as a young woman with a “fierce determination to master her art,” and “for whom writing and poetry were lifelines, the ways and means to discover who she was and to sort through her often […]
November 11, 2010
Journalism professor Ted Gup used an old suitcase of his grandfather’s letters to pursue the identity of a mysterious donor in the Canton, OH, area 80 years ago. It turns out that “B. Virdot” was really Sam Stone, a successful businessman and Jewish immigrant, who gave money to help unfortunate people. Gup has written a […]
November 10, 2010
I was aware that some schools did not have full library services or trained staff, but I had no idea how bad the situation was until I heard this story. According to this NPR report around 25% of elementary schools are managing (are they?) without a library. That sounds very high. Shira S. Also see […]
November 10, 2010
Now everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE my Kobo ereader. I love the company philosophy, I love that I can download library books, and I love that I can buy books from almost any ebook store. I also love the feel of this reader (I also own an ipad, and it’s just too […]
November 4, 2010
Young adult books are among the biggest sellers at BN. In order to facilitate shopping the store is separating the two most popular genres, paranormal romance and fantasy and adventure from regular fiction. These are only surpassed by adult fiction! Shira S.
