The Roundup
Publishing news from across the Web
2012 May 15 10:05
The Guardian: Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature.
2012 May 15 10:05
The Guardian selects "War and Peace" and "Wolf Hall" among others.
2012 May 15 10:05
Mike McGrady, author of "Naked Came the Stranger," has died at 78.
2012 May 14 10:05
The Guardian: Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?
2012 May 14 10:05
Piscataqua Press is the new publishing project of RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH.
2012 May 14 09:05
The Internet service provider has expressed doubt that IP addresses are useful in the search and is concerned about customer privacy.
2012 May 14 09:05
Albuquerque's Page One said the bankruptcy process "has been tremendous because it's given the bookstore new life."
2012 May 11 10:05
NYPD officers have seized the books of Charles Mysak on the Upper West Side.
2012 May 11 10:05
The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple.
2012 May 11 10:05
The author of 'Are You My Mother?' talks with Slate about family history exploration.
2012 May 11 10:05
Francoise Mouly, the magazine's art editor since 1993, takes us behind the scenes.
2012 May 10 10:05
"Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism — Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance." From NY Times.
2012 May 10 10:05
Readers in China expect their e-books to be a very low price.
2012 May 10 10:05
BBC: In the U.K., consumer e-books leapt by 366% in 2011 helping to offset a decline in the demand for printed books.
2012 May 10 00:05
Using comics books (like The Avengers) to get kids interested in reading.
2012 May 10 00:05
The Ricky Rapper series, published in Finland, has sold more than one million copies to date worldwide.
2012 May 10 00:05
In a "marriage made in lard," NYC children's bookstore Books of Wonder is playing host to the Baconery, which specializes in bacon-themed sweets.
2012 May 10 00:05
After 24 years, the Banbury Cross Children's Bookshop in Wenham, Mass., will close its doors.
2012 May 10 00:05
An interview with Riordan on the occasion of the publication of The Serpent's Shadow.
2012 May 10 00:05
Worldcrunch.com asks: are today's children's books about Africa still racist?
2012 May 10 00:05
What he's reading now, and what book had the greatest impact on him.
2012 May 10 00:05
Ellen DeGeneres and corporate pals showered a Las Vegas school-in-need with a slew of gift, including a new library and pre-loaded Kindles.
2012 May 10 00:05
Author-illustrator Niamh Sharkey has been named Ireland's second Laureate na nÓg.
2012 May 10 00:05
"He gave children not books, but literature, like Lewis Carroll and Twain. Not pictures, but art, like John Tenniel and N. C. Wyeth."
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