February 2012
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How Piracy Built The US Publishing Industry →
“According to the book, one of the most lucrative revenue streams for U.S. publishers during this period came from churning out unauthorized copies of British books before their rivals could. Authors didn’t get a dime, say Burrows and Wallace. But don’t feel too bad for the British publishers—they’d done exactly the same to French authors.”
Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Great Gay Teen Books from Alex Sanchez →
realkidsgoodbooks: Alex Sanchez has compiled a great list of LGBTQ books for teens. He’s the author of a number of books including, Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box and Boyfriends with Girlfriends.
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“And let’s be honest, any deal where libraries are giving publishers money for...”
– Annoyed Librarian on libraries and ebooks and patrons and ebooks and what are we going to do about this because I’m really hoping we gain some ground in the right direction very, very soon. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a...”
– Stacy Schiff reviews Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank for The New York Times. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Feb 19th
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I'm looking for YA books with POC in them.
strugglingtobeheard: theoceanandthesky: feminerdism: I tutor reading and phonics at an inner-city middle school in Denver. Most of the students are Latino, from low-income households, English Language Learners, and immigrants. Some of them are undocumented immigrants, or their parents are undocumented. Some of their parents work two or three minimum wage jobs, others have parents who are...
Feb 19th
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Walk You Home: Librarians as Agents of Democracy →
walkyouhome: “As agents of democracy, librarians uphold, strengthen and promote the democratic ideals of our society. This is possible because libraries are the only institutions that make knowledge, ideas and information freely available to citizens.” Accordingly, this paper lists those characteristics or…
Feb 18th
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Sarah Diemer on Writing Lesbian YA →
sffic: “Authors and writers are in an incredibly inspiring climate right now—if we believe that something “they” say is wrong, we can set out and prove the point. I set out. I proved it. I am going to continue to prove that lesbian girls want stories just as much as straight girls, that straight girls enjoy lesbian stories, that the world NEEDS and WANTS lesbian stories desperately,...
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Writers talk successful scripting →
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Kristen Wiig, and more discuss writing screenplays at a Writers Guild panel.
Feb 17th
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WatchWatch
The trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on the book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Feb 14th
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Smart Bitches, Trashy Books →
Wanna curl up with a romance novel on today of all days? These smart ladies review romance novels and more on this website.
Feb 14th
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10 Great Literary Smooches →
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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thelifeguardlibrarian: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s...
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Submit your work: Hybrid Beasts
redlmnd: Red Lemonade, an imprint of Cursor, is proud to announce a crowdsourced, mongrel, interagency, multi-editorial, recombinant publishing excursion for 2012. The working title of the publication shall be Hybrid Beasts. Publication of the hybrid collection is scheduled for Summer 2012.The process itself is designed to be collaborative and driven by readers and writers interacting within the...
Feb 8th
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Feb 6th
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Library-centric podcasts →
libraryjournal: thepinakes: I recommend the podcast Adventures in Library Instruction for all info-lit librarians out there. I’ve gotten scores of great ideas from them. We got one!
Feb 6th
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Buncha free Neil Gaiman stories, audio and text.  →
Feb 6th
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25 Graphic Novels for Black History Month →
Feb 1st
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“Books are only one aspect of what libraries and librarians are about....”
– From the Guardian’s Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian. (via libraryjournal)
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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