Books & Publishers
- Lynn Coady Wins Giller Prize For Hellgoing | HuffPost
- 98 UK publishers have gone bust over the last 12 months | Melville House
- Indie eBookstore Zola Books Raises $5.1 Million in Funding | The Digital Reader
- Rand Paul Adding Footnotes So People ‘Leave Me The Hell Alone’ | HuffPost. Plagiarism allegations.
- Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books? | BookRiot
Forgotten Books, Discovered | HuffPost
Pacing through the website of Forgotten Books, an online library with hundreds of thousands of titles, is like walking through the aisles of a favorite bookstore.
The Library Vending Machine | BookRiot
Changing demographics and difficulty securing new funds for new libraries, The Pioneer Library System in Norman, Oklahoma decided to to use technology to meet its patrons needs. So last week, it opened the first 24-hour library vending machine in the United States. Built by EnvisionWare, this fully automated machine will be able to to dispense more than 400 pieces of media (books/DVDs/audiobooks) and store more than 1000 returned items.
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