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Friday, August 19th, 2011
10 Things You Might Not Know about Punctuation
Chicago Tribune
The Power of Punctuation Who knew that punctuation could lead to a revolution? Or create a new nickname? Or simply annoy people so much? (Well, that last one we editors already did know, actually.)
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Not All (e)Books Are Created Equal
Book Business
Pricing Books and eBooks A different take on the pricing structure of ebooks versus print books. The standard formulas that publishers use might deserve another look.
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
How Harry Potter Rewrote the Book on Reading
The Globe and Mail
Thank You, Harry Potter! This article explains, "What the Harry Potter generation showed us, certainly through social media but also through events, was that they view reading as a collective experience. They want to celebrate reading together.
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Two by Two: A Real-life Noah’s Ark
Yahoo! News
Modern-Day Noah He wanted to build an ark, to scale, using Scripture as a guide. See what happened!
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
500-Year-Old Book Surfaces in Utah
AP / Fox News
You Never Know What’s in Your Attic While volunteering at a fundraiser for the small town museum in Sandy, Utah, just south of Salt Lake, book dealer Ken Sanders got the surprise of a lifetime.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
London Book Fair—A Different Perspective on Managing Digital Risk
Winning in Digital
Opportunities for Innovation Daniel Winner, speaker at the London Book Fair, offers his perspective on the coming digital transition. The choices publishers make now in the digital arena will have a significant impact on the structure and dynamics of the future marketplace.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Mr Harry Elkins Widener
Encyclopedia Titanica
Rare Books Go Down with the Titanic April 15 was the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Harry Elkins Widener, a rare book collector, had been in England purchasing rare books. His return ticket was on the Titanic. His private collection, now in a library at Harvard, includes a first folio of Shakespeare and a Gutenberg Bible, printed between 1450 and 1455.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Prince Harry instead of William on royal wedding mug
Yahoo! News
Someone Should Have Proofread Sorry—we can’t let you out of April without a nod to THE royal wedding. If only the mistakes we in publishing make could be considered "elaborate spoofs" and "highly collectible"!
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Roald Dahl stories to be on millions of cereal boxes
The Telegraph UK
That’s One Way to Advertise Who doesn’t remember munching your favorite cereal before school and reading the back of the cereal box? Now children in the UK will find on said box an excerpt of a Roald Dahl book. The publisher hopes this will spark kids’ interest in reading the whole book!
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Rare Bible Exhibition Tours the Country
Fox News
Precious Beyond Words The Greens, owners of the Hobby Lobby empire, pull together an impressive collection of ancient manuscripts and early printed Bibles into a traveling exhibit they have named, "Passages."
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