Saturday, August 09, 2014

One Point on Which Jeff Bezos and Scott Turow Agree

Today's Feature Story:


Out of Print, the film documentary by Vivienne Roumani about the state-of-affairs in the book business and the culture of reading in America circa 2013, is worth seeking out.
Discussion:


In the film Out of Print, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and author Scott Turow are often adversaries. But they at least come close to agreement on one point.
More News from PP:


Colleen Higgs of Modjaji Books discusses the challenges of running a independent women's press that publishes the work of southern African women writers.
From the Archives:


Can open source textbooks help students to forgo photocopies in favor of required texts in Latin America? The bold open source LATin project aims to find out.

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