The Random House Foundation, Inc. is creating the Random House Teacher Awards, to “recognize the nation’s most dynamic and resourceful teachers who use their creativity to inspire and successfully instill a love of reading in students,” providing “grants to help make their innovative reading programs possible.” Crown author Jonathan Kozol will present the first awards at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention in November. After posting PDF files of client royalty statements to their Agent Portal back in February of this year, Simon & Schuster is now inviting agents to opt out of receiving paper royalty statements. […]