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E-Book Sales Surpass Print: Is This a Win or a Loss for the Publishing Industry?
When the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its sales figures for the month of February, the headlines were easy to compose: e-books ha... E-Books Outsold Paperbacks In February
(New York, NY) -- E-book sales finally hit a major milestone by outstripping paperback sales in February. CNN says the publishing industry logged more... Using CC0 for public domaina�software
The basic idea of Creative Commons, offering free copyright tools, is copied from the free software movement. However, CC licenses are not intended to... Plaintext versions of Creative Commons licenses anda�CC0
Last Friday, we made plaintext versions of our core 3.0 (unported) licenses and CC0 available. This is something that some people have wanted for a lo... New plagiarism probe in Germany
The thesis of a top German politician - liberal Silvana Koch-Mehrin - is probed after plagiarism claims, in a case echoing the scandal that hit an ex-... Secondhand Lessons
Two weeks ago the Wheeler Centre hosted a standing-room-only Meanland event (which you can watch here ). The crowded room was possibly explained by th... Publishing company co-founder Gracia Alkema dies
The former president of a successful Conejo Valley educational publishing company has died after a brief illness....... Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale: 'Paper Books Will Evolve into More Precious Products'
Alberto Vitale was running Bantam Books, the world leader in paperbacks, when the Newhouse family recruited him to become the COO of Random House. In ... Kid's book about gay penguins tops list of books conservatives want 'banned'
A children's book about an orphan penguin with two daddies called "And Tango Makes Three" once again topped the American Library Association's list of... 'The Bippolo Seed': The 'Lost' Dr. Seuss Stories
This fall, Random House will publish a collection of Dr. Seuss stories that were previously only known to Seuss scholars and collectors. Lynn Neary re... ALA Virtual Library Legislative Day allows library advocates to contact Congress from home
PHILADELPHIA - Virtual Library Legislative Day is part of the American Library Association's ( ALA ) National Library Legislative Day on May 10, when ... Preservation Week publicity tools encourage everyone to "Pass It On"
CHICAGO - With Preservation Week just around the corner, the American Library Association ( ALA ) is offering online resources to help public, academi... On the Books Apr. 12: Gay penguin book tops list of controversial books, Amazon offering ad-supported Kindle, and more
And Tango Makes Three once again waddles into the top spot of the American Library Association's Top Ten List of the Most Frequently Challenged Books ... Americans Want to Toss Adorable Gay Penguin Tale on Banned-Book Pyre
As a taxpaying American citizen, you are entitled to write your local public or school library and formally request that they remove a book from their... Top 10 'challenged' books: Suzanne Collins, Sherman Alexie novels draw criticism
The American Library Association's annual top 10 list of books most criticized in their communities includes Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games," for ... AASL seeking presenters for 2012 ALA Annual Conference
CHICAGO - The American Association of School Librarians ( AASL ), a division of the American Library Association ( ALA ), is now seeking presenter pro...
The opening book of Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has become what industry experts believe is th... World Book Night 2012 Announced
A wonderful initiative conceived by the publishing industry....... World Book Night 2012 Annoucend
A wonderful initiative conceived by the publishing industry....... Collins and Alexie make list of challenged books
A war trilogy that's become a virtual rite of passage for young adults has made it onto the American Library Association's annual top 10 list of books...