Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Monday, July 26, 2021

Media Week (Vol 14, No.7): B&N Education Reports, Book TikTok, Teaching Reading, Must Read-TV,

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Barnes & Noble Education Reports ( Edgar ) Financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021show severe impact of COVID.  Ov...
Monday, May 17, 2021

MediaWeek (Vo 14, No 3) Clarivate to buy Proquest in $5.3B deal, Remember Reading, RB Media Acquires, Controversial Book Deals

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Clarivate (ex Thomson Reuters company) announced their intention to acquire Proquest.  From the press release : Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT ),...
Monday, January 25, 2021

MediaWeek Report (Vol 14, No 1): Book Prices, JK Rowling, African Comics, Digital Textbooks.

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You might ask yourself: Why do books have prices printed on them? Marketplace Why are books actually marked with a price on them? Music isn’...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Making 2020 Hindsight: Reflections, Recommendations and Running

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For the first time in probably 40 years I did not have a seat on an airliner in 2020. Each year, I'd expect to travel to the UK at least...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Is GoodReads A Good or Bad Thing For Books?

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It's been a very long tome since Amazon bought up all the viable book recommendation sites - GoodReads included - but over in The New St...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

A Book Subscription Service - Resilient Old Ideas

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From an article in t he Guardian: From chocolate to coffee to beer to grooming products, subscription boxes are big business, and books a...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

MediaWeek (Vol 6, No 9: ISBNs, Books & Commuting, Course Guides, Music Money + More

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The Economist readers in the group may have seen that the lowly ISBN made it into the newspaper this week. It wasn't a particularly good...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 52): New York Public, Big Data, Independent Bookstores, Denialbility

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The end of the year... From New York magazine an envisioning (without the hysteria) of what the rennovated NYPL will look like. Now we fin...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

My Year in Reading 2012

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Looking at what I wrote on this subject last year I am almost appalled that I failed to keep my promises regarding my expected reading for 2...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

LOC: International Summit of the Book

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A 1 1/2 day summit event at the Library of Congress next week which they hope to turn into "an annual global meeting of minds to discus...
Monday, November 26, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 48): History & Future of Books - Video with O'Reilly, Friedman, Auletta on Charlie Rose, Follett CEO, The Friendly Intenet + more

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A discussion about the history and future of books with Tim O'Reilly, Jane Friedman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ken Auletta, and David Kasta...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My Year in Reading 2011

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As I have on prior years, I've followed the lead of The Millions and thought about the books I read this year. In terms of quantity 201...