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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Saturday, August 09, 2014
One Point on Which Jeff Bezos and Scott Turow Agree
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