What is PEN World Voices good for?
The news today that a dozen books from Carlos Fuentes’s backlist, including The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo, will now be available as e-books, and the conclusion… Read more »
What’s worse: being stuck in a bunker for two months or translating Dan Brown?
Recently, there have been a number of reports of the hellish conditions endured by the translators of Dan Brown’s upcoming blockbuster, Inferno. According to the Independent: The translators are said… Read more »
Arts Council England fights back at Maria Miller
I reported last month on Culture Secretary Maria Miller’s troubling speech on making the arts economically viable. That day, she addressed the heads of the biggest arts organisations in Britain… Read more »
Sales tax fairness legislation passed in Senate
Over the past few years, bookstores nationwide have protested the price advantage conferred on Amazon by not having to collect sales tax. Currently, because of a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, states… Read more »
Goals and controversies on National Library Legislative Day
Today is National Library Legislative Day, when librarians will visit the 112th Congress to make the case for legislators to support libraries on a rage of issues, including ebooks, elementary… Read more »
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