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• Philly’s First Poet Laureate – The Inquirer

  Posted at 5:06 pm by Laura, on December 29, 2011

  Philadelphia Selects Sonia Sanchez as its First Poet Laureate – The Inquirer – John Timpane

  Siobhan Riordan, president and director of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a member of the selection committee, said, “The mayor really wanted this, and our conversations around Sonia were so easy and so natural. Philadelphia is a city passionate about the things it loves, and she personifies that passion in her poetry and her teaching.”

  A neat article on the exciting news for a massive artistic city. It’s great to hear that literature in all forms is still honored and appreciated!

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• Best-Selling Book in the US

  Posted at 11:03 am by Laura, on December 29, 2011

  According to USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is No. 1!

  Other books that made the Top Five list include The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Help.

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• Publishers vs Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War – NYTimes

  Posted at 8:08 pm by Laura, on December 26, 2011

  Publisher’s vs Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War – The New York Times – Randall Stross

  To follow along with the library/publisher/ebook trend today…

  …we can also guess that the number of visitors to the e-book sections of public libraries’ Web sites is about to set a record, too.

  And that is a source of great worry for publishers. In their eyes, borrowing an e-book from a library has been too easy. Worried that people will click to borrow an e-book from a library rather than click to buy it, almost all major publishers in the United States now block libraries’ access to the e-book form of either all of their titles or their most recently published ones.

   

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• No, You’re Getting a Book – NYTimes

  Posted at 11:44 am by Laura, on December 22, 2011

  No, You’re Getting a Book – The New York Times Opinion Pages – Kyle Jarrard

  A book allows you to time-travel, or just plain travel to real and imagined places, a not un-neat trick considering the price of airline tickets or space tourism. It allows you to meet evil, wonderful, mysterious, odd, crazy, fun, and not-fun people who often end up being more “real” in your life than real people. A simple tome of paper links you back, for instance, to the age of François I, Renaissance poet and book collector supremo, when the printing press and its wild spread across Europe was as exciting to us all as are e-books today.

   

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