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Books ready for free download this year include today’s release of Keiichiro Hirano’s bestseller in Tokyo, ‘At the End of the Matinee.’ ‘This Complex Diversity’ The author of At the End of the Matinee leans in and sports a slightly impish smile when he hears a question he likes to answer. Better in English than he gives himself credit for being, Keiichiro Hirano, has heard the phrase “language of relationships” in an interview with Publishing Perspectives from his home in Japa...

Many Elections Ago: The First Translation from Amazon Crossing The first Amazon Crossing translation was released exactly 10 years ago today. Born into a political season, the imprint keeps widening its own campaign for international literature in a political world. Gabriella Page-Fort in Seattle. Image: Galen Maynard Page-Fort: ‘Just by Saying Yes’ Unlike today, November 2 ten years ago was a Tuesday. But like today, it was a day highly charged with political energy. On that Tuesday in 201...

Who should know whether you’ve been vaccinated? The Wake Up for Monday, April 5, 2021 Cameron Fields, cleveland.com Subscribe to The Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Weather Today’s forecast calls for a high near 66 degrees, with a chance of rain between 2-3 p.m. Tuesday is slated to be mostly sunny, with highs near 70 and a slight chance of showers after 9 p.m. Most of the week is forecast to be rainy, but hig...

On IBBY’s International Children’s Book Day: books on Amazon Crossing Kids’ list this year include titles from Asia for the first time, as editor Marilyn Brigham looks to expand the imprint’s range. A detail from the illustrations by Ramón París for María Eugenia Manrique’s ‘The Caiman,’ releasing July 1 from Amazon Crossing Kids. Image: ACK Update: Today (April 2) is International Children’s Book Day, as designated by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)....

Bryan native writes an interactive book for her daughter In 2019 Scholastic released their biennial Kids & Family Reading Report, revealing that kids and families are demanding more diversity in reading books. and last updated 2021-03-15 19:01:25-04 BRAZOS COUNTY, TX — In 2019 Scholastic released their biennial Kids & Family Reading Report, revealing that kids and families are demanding more diversity in reading books. 25 News reporter Rachael Espaillat shares how a Bryan Native has ta...

Ebook lending through public libraries has been something of a headache since the advent of digital reading. Strange hoop jumping requirements from publishers and technology obstacles to overcome for libraries and patrons has made this a winding road, to be sure. But as it turns out, some of the barriers are not artificial... and not in the best interests of these underappreciated institutions. Amazon, the company that makes it all too easy to loathe them with some of their practices, has now be...

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly refusing to sell ebook and audiobook versions of works it publishes through its in-house publishing arms to libraries throughout the country. Amazon is the only major publisher to prevent sales to libraries.

Amazon is withholding ebooks and audiobooks it publishes through its own in-house publishing arms from US libraries, according to a new report from The Washington Post. That’s because it doesn’t like the terms involved with selling to libraries that then loan out versions on platforms like Libby.

It's part of a broader effort to expand broadband access, after the pandemic highlighted the costs of the digital divide.

By Andrew Albanese | Feb 26, 2021 In a blog post this week, OverDrive CEO Steve Potash said he was proud of some of the “incremental gains” made in the library e-book market in 2020, but insisted that the work of establishing “fair, flexible, and reasonable terms” for libraries and schools to acquire and lend digital content is far from over. “What began as a single model for e-books 20 years ago is constantly evolving,” Potash writes, adding that OverDrive’s ong...