This is all about one media giant trying to grab market share from other media giants. Education publishing is the most profitable part of the book business these days–maybe the only profitable part. So experiments with digital publishing have been cautious, and hampered by the lack of a great delivery device. Apple thinks it can hasten [...]
Six of the nine nominations announced this week for Best Picture are based on books, reflecting a recent pattern in which the Oscar lists have consistently and gratifyingly affirmed cinemas dependence on literature. Apart from a modest lurch towards originality in 2010, the previous five years saw line-ups in which half or more of the [...]
So here’s the obvious question: Did she intend to have some sort of confrontation there Wednesday in front of the cameras at the Phoenix airport? We think probably not – in politics, as in life, happenstance usually explains more incidents than does conspiracy. But whatever her plan, Governor Brewer has benefited from Waggate in at [...]
Daisy runs off with Caldecott and Dead End takes Newbery Kids books: A Ball for Daisy and Dead End in Norvelt earn top honors. Heres a look at the books and their creators. By KAREN MACPHERSON Scripps Howard News Service
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, expanding their collections of e-books they can loan to patrons. That trend has 3Ms attention. The company has a long history of serving libraries. And 3M sees a big business opportunity in helping libraries build, [...]
Posted at 12:25 PM ET, 01/27/2012 And the Oscar goes to …? Books! By Steven Levingston No matter which way the awards finally go, several books already are winners. As the Guardian reports, six of the nine nominations for Best Picture are based on books. And another of the top contenders, Woody Allen’s “Midnight in [...]
Monroe police arrested a woman Thursday accused of drug possession and resisting arrest. Crystal D. Dorame, 38, of 1213 Florida St., was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on charges of theft, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace by intoxication, possession of Hydrocodone with intent to distribute and possession of Seroquel. According to an arrest affidavit, police [...]
As digital music sales surpass physical copies for the first time, it could represent a larger trend at play for digital content in general. Digital content consumption is growing on every platform available, from e-book readers to smartphones to DVR machines, according to Deloitte’s State of the Media Democracy survey. Although this might not seem like [...]
Are books being banned from Tucson Unified School District classrooms as part of the districts work to dismantle Mexican-American studies after the governing board voted Tuesday, Jan. 10 to end the classes? Well, it depends on your definition of ban … maybe yes, and maybe no. School textbooks are being taken out of MAS classrooms—the [...]
My Dad used to take me to Longs Bookstore on the Ohio State University campus when I was young Id say this was during the 1980s and very early 1990s although in my mind these afternoons spent on campus are tinged with a 1970s wash out of color, as if I were remembering my time [...]