Scholastic has bought Learning Ovations, the creator of literacy screening and assessment system A2i, for an undisclosed amount. The publisher will integrate Learning Ovations’ staff and technology into Scholastic Education Solutions’ literacy platform. A2i was developed with research from educator Dr. Carol Connor and researchers at Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) and University of California, Irvine. “Carol Connor was a teachers’ teacher, dedicated both to helping every child learn to read – regardless of background, disadvantage or learning challenge – and to supporting teachers with tools that are both deeply rigorous and easy to use,” evp, president Scholastic Education […]
2022 Hugo Awards
This year's Hugo Awards were announced at the World Science Fiction Convention on September 4.
New Books Publishing September 6
Stacey Abrams, Maggie O’Farrell and Stephen King lead this week’s fiction releases, nonfiction includes memoirs from Edward Enninful and Betty Gilpin, and Courtney Summers, Tiffany D. Jackson and Brigid Kemmerer publish new YA titles this month. Also out this week are new titles from Cai Emmons, Jonathan Escoffery, A. M. Homes, Carolyn Huynh and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler. 25 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-6 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_September_/224174 19 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-6 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_September_/224175 35 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-september https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_September/224173 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for […]
New White House Policy to Make Publicly-Funded Research Free By 2026
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated a policy that will make publicly funded research available immediately available to the public for free. The guidance says that federal agencies must implement the policy, “including ending the optional 12-month embargo,” by the end of 2025. Currently, journals are able to hold articles behind a paywall for a year. “This policy will likely yield significant benefits on a number of key priorities for the American people, from environmental justice to cancer breakthroughs, and from game-changing clean energy technologies to protecting civil liberties in an automated world,” the announcement […]
James Tait Black Prizes
The £10,000 James Tait Black Prizes were announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Amit Chaudhuri’s Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music won the biography prize and Keith Ridgway’s A Shock won the fiction prize.
Judge Recommends Dismissing Bookseller Antitrust Suit
Federal Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo has filed a 59-page report, recommending dismissal of the fairly absurd lawsuit filed by class-action specialists Hagens Berman and Sperling & Slater on behalf of a single plaintiff bookseller charging that Amazon and the Big 5 publishers had colluded to grant Amazon better terms and control wholesale book prices. In March 2021, Illinois bookseller Bookends & Beginnings filed suit charging “defendants’ anticompetitive conduct has depressed book sales in the U.S. market.” Last fall, the publishers and Amazon motioned for the case to be dismissed. Judge Figueredo’s analysis, just made public with some modest redactions, urges […]