On this, the final day of Oprah’s long-running network TV show, I have a confession: I have never watched an Oprah show, not even one of her famous book discussions. But so many other people have watched Oprah’s show that publishers are wondering what their fate will be with the loss of “the Oprah effect,” […]
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ReadingGroupGuides.com – 10th Anniversary Contest Results: In honor of its tenth anniversary, ReadingGroupGuides.com ran a contest asking book groups to submit a list of their favorite books. The results are now in, and here is the Top Ten list. There are also links here to results broken down into categories (e.g., classics, biographies/memoirs). How many
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BookFinder.com Report Fall 2010 @ BookFinder.com: Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. We also find some out-of-print mainstays which are unlikely to see a printer again despite their popularity. But above
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Twitter: Banned Books’ New Best Friend – NYTimes.com: Perhaps you’ve heard: It’s Banned Books Week, and across the country, libraries, bookstores, teachers and countless readers are celebrating ‘the freedom to read.’ For an event like this, it never hurts to have a cause célèbre, and this year, organizers needn’t have gone very far in search
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Banned Books Week 2010: Which books drew the most fire last year? – CSMonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor reports on the past year’s book-banning efforts: In total, there were 460 challenges reported to the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom in 2009, 410 of them books. The rest are videos, speeches, magazines, and other forms of
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Books | Who buys books? 40-year-old women and others | Seattle Times Newspaper: Bowker, a global firm that tracks people’s book-buying habits, reports some interesting statistics about book-buying in the U.S. And, in what is no surprise at all, women make 64% of all book purchases.
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Audience Picks: Top 100 ‘Killer Thrillers’ : NPR: The results are in! The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our ‘Killer Thrillers’ poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code,
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Booksellers Urged to Participate in Banned Books Week: There were 460 incidents of people attempting to ban books from libraries last year, according to the American Library Association, including a recent one where a group of parents succeeded in banning an anthology of writings by gay youth from the library of a New Jersey high
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Harper Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published 50 years ago today.
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New Biography Claims Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy : NPR: Another offering from National Public Radio, this one about the new biography of poet Emily Dickinson that opens the door on a number of skeletons in the Dickinson family closet.
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