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Books for kids about Dickens
Just in time for the 200th birthday of Dickens, there are three new illustrated books based on his life and the books he wrote. ●“ Charles Dickens: England's Most Captivating Storyteller ” by Catherine Wells-Cole (Templar Books $19.99), uses pictures from his original books and photos and other pieces of art. Readers “see” Dickens's life story and important parts of the stories in his books. By ...
Do E-Books Threaten Democracy?
eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor?s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ?bookservative? and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. ?Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I ...
E-Books Are Superior Tools To Physical Books
As Alan Jacobs says, 'books may be better objects, but e-books are better tools.'
Christopher Bram: How Books Made Me Gay
I came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. I was a slow learner as a gay man and IÂ used books to show me the way. You might say that I read my way out of the closet.
E-Books Allow the Return of the Pulps
I must say that The Guardian seems rather sniffy about this, the way that e-books are allowing the return of pulp fiction. E-book sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction It doesn?t sound like they approve, does it? Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that ...
Books May Be Better Objects, but E-Books Are Better Tools
Can Kevin Kelly and Nick Carr both be right? A plausible thought about the future of the book. Nick Carr likes the fixities of the printed book ; Kevin Kelly agrees that "these are very real, and ...
Inquirer e-books out on Kindle
Following the release of its first electronic books on its Digital Newsstand, the Inquirer Group is now making its e-books available for the first time on the Amazon Kindle platform.
The Asia Foundation and OOCL Partner to Distribute 400,000 Books Across Asia
Twenty-five OOCL containers to transport much-needed books to Asian schools, universities and libraries.San Francisco, CA / Hong Kong (PRWEB) February 06, 2012 The Asia Foundation today announced a new partnership with Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), a leading integrated international container transportation and logistics company, to support the Foundation's Books for Asia program. ...
Training classes to be offered for downloading library e-books
The Anderson County Library will have four February training classes for patrons to learn how to check out and use library e-books with their Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other e-reading devices. The classes will take place in the second-floor computer lab at the main library, 300 N. McDuffie St. Space is limited and registration is required.
Indigo, Books-a-Million boycott Amazon
Booksellers Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million join Barnes & Noble in refusing to sell Amazon-published books – but Amazon may be looking into opening their own retail stores.
