At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to senior publicist. Recipients were announced for the second round of $1.75 million in grants that James Patterson is providing to school libraries across the country, working in partnerships with Scholastic Reading Club, which matches the grants with points for classroom materials purchases. 452 schools are receiving funds from the latest grants. Patterson says in the announcement: “We’ve just come out of the most divisive presidential election in history—and among all the issues that captivated voters, education wasn’t one of them. It was hardly discussed. Nearly half of the American […]
Libraries
EU Court Affirms Libraries’ Right to Lend Legal eBooks
The European Union’s Court of Justice issued a ruling on Thursday that declares EU rules about a public lending right to physical books through libraries apply to ebooks as well. The judgment imposes as a legal right what has become established business practice in the US for some time (albeit with a number of business model variations publisher by publisher): Libraries can lend legally published and purchased ebooks on a one-user-per-copy basis. EU rules require “fair compensation” to authors; what’s not clear to us from the ruling is whether those rules allow a separate practice from some publishers in the US […]
Hoffman’s Faithful Tops November Library Reads List
Alice Hoffman’s new novel Faithful is the no. 1 pick for the November Library Reads List. The rest of the list includes: The Fate of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen (Harper) Night School, by Lee Child (Delacorte) When All the Girls Have Gone, by Jayne Ann Krentz (Berkley) I’ll Take You There, by Wally Lamb (Harper) Swing Time, by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Victoria: The Queen, by Julia Baird (Random House) Moonglow, by Michael Chabon (Harper) Normal, by Warren Ellis (FSG Originals) Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch (Doubleday)
Jiles’ News of the World Tops October Library Reads List
Paulette Jiles’ new novel, News of the World, is the no. 1 pick for the October Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of that book as well as of Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein, Brit Bennett’s debut novel (and No. 1 Indie Next Pick) The Mothers, and Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the Library Reads list features: The Trespasser, by Tana French Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult Crosstalk, by Connie Willis All the Little Liars, by Charlaine Harris Smoke and Mirrors, by Elly Griffiths The […]
Forman’s Leave Me Tops September Library Reads List
Gayle Forman’s novel for adults, Leave Me, is the no. 1 pick for the September Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner Dinah Jefferies, The Tea Planter’s Wife Sharon Bolton, Daisy in Chains Thomas Mullen, Darktown Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide
Penny’s A Great Reckoning Tops August Library Reads List
Louise Penny’s newest mystery A Great Reckoning is the No. 1 pick for the August Library Reads list. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Watching Edie, by Camilla Way The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, by Louise Miller The Dollhouse, by Fiona Davis The Book That Matters Most, by Ann Hood Arrowood, by Laura McHugh Behind Closed Doors, by B.A. Paris First Star I See Tonight, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Die Like An Eagle, […]