Hachette To Test eBook Pilot Program At Libraries
After pulling its new eBook titles from libraries back in 2010, the Hachette Book Group is testing a pilot program to offer new eBooks in libraries this spring.
Hachette currently offers backlist eBook titles for check out in libraries, but not new tit...
ok Festival aims to challenge the dominance of south Manchester
The festival has been set up to celebrate the authors and independent businesses that are thrivingAn innovative literary festival is taking place in north Manchester that aims to challenge the skewing of cultural events south of the city.The inaugural ...
Kensal Rise library campaigners gain another day
Brent council backs off from emptying shelves, as protesters complain offer to run service with volunteers was ignoredShortly after midday on Wednesday, one of the local authority workers caught up in the often bitter hostilities between Brent council ...
Campaigners block council’s efforts to remove books from Kensal Rise library
Protesters gather outside 111-year-old library, which has been closed down by Brent councilAround 50 campaigners have gathered outside Kensal Rise library in north-west London after Brent council workers began removing books from the closed library, wh...
Pay us for library ebook loans, say authors
Many writers rely on income from library loans, says the Society of Authors, in calling for digital books to be included in PLR schemeAuthors are calling on the government to remunerate them when their ebooks are lent from libraries, calling it "patent...
Writers won’t lose out if libraries lend ebooks
The Society of Authors' suspicion of e-lending is misguidedShould public libraries lend ebooks? The Society of Authors has called on culture minister Ed Vaizey to address concerns that library e-lending is "undervaluing retail pricing" and encouraging ...
Salman Rushdie joins New York library protest
Authors including Art Spiegelman and Mario Vargas Llosa send letter to Fifth Avenue library planning $300m restructuringMajor literary names including Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman and Mario Vargas Llosa are protesting the planned $300m restructuring ...
Fifty Shades of Grey banned from Florida libraries
Bestselling erotic novel removed from shelves in Brevard County as other US libraries make the most of title's popularityIt's the fastest selling book of the year in the UK but British author EL James's erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey is just too por...
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee sees the UK’s longest public record unrolled
There weren't that many names on Workington's petition for Queen Victoria's great bash. But organisers glued together enough sheets of paper to find a place in historyThe recent system of e-petitions to Parliament has led to some mighty long lists of n...
Woody Guthrie comes to Salford
The Working Class Movement Library draws on the American folk legend to help bridge a gap in its budgetFolk legend Woody Guthrie, an American academic working in Preston, an avant garde art centre, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford… ...a...
How we became a school that reads
Our bloggers on the impact of the Rooted in Reading scheme which – with a little bit of help from Derby County footballers – has doubled library use at their schoolFor 20 minutes every afternoon at Kirk Hallam Community College you will find every ...
How our fight for Kensal Rise library has drawn a community together | Marika Giles Samson