Gallup poll: Going to the library is Americans' favorite cultural activity

Posted on 01/24/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Okay, we’re sure you’ll all tell us that you went to the library FAR more often in 2019 that the...

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Tagged As: Libraries, Reading

NPR re-interviews "American Dirt" author

Posted on 01/24/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

NPR interviewed one of the most talked-about authors last week — and then had to toss it out. The writer...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Diversity, NPR

Jim Lehrer's death is a loss for literature as well as journalism

Posted on 01/24/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The journalism world lost a great figure yesterday, with the passing of Jim Lehrer. Lehrer was, of course, best known...

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Tagged As: Nonfiction, Obituary

New York Times bestsellers: Week of February 1, 2020

Posted on 01/24/2020 at 07:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Times’s bestseller list for combined print and ebook fiction is out for the week of February 1,...

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Tagged As: Bestsellers, Book lists, The New York Times

Barnes & Noble CEO joins the National Book Foundation's board

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

James Daunt has another new gig: member of the National Book Foundation’s board of directors. The new CEO of Barnes...

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Tagged As: Barnes & Noble / Nook, Charity

What effect did "Fifty Shades of Grey" really have on society?

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Love it or loathe it, by one measure, Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James was the past decade’s bestselling...

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Tagged As: Scandal, The Guardian

How an unknown narrator landed the Harry Potter audiobook deal

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Just as Harry Potter launched J.K. Rowling’s career, so too did it launch Jim Dale’s. Dale, who went on to...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, Literary Hub, Podcast

What if the last season of "Game of Thrones" had been a movie?

Posted on 01/23/2020 at 08:22 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

HBO showrunners had initially planned to make the final season of Game of Thrones into three movies, not six episodes,...

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Tagged As: Fantasy, TV adaptation

Penguin Random House is leaving unlimited-access reading services

Posted on 01/22/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Penguin Random House will be removing all of its digital and audio titles from unlimited-access subscription services. PRH ebooks in...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, E-reader, Reading, The Bookseller, The Digital Reader

The man who slices books in half for easier reading ... was serious

Posted on 01/22/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Yesterday, we shared a viral Tweet from a man who literally cuts books in half to make them more portable....

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Tagged As: Reading, The Guardian