Bookish Intelligence Report

29 Nov

  • An effort to educate Israelis on the roots of Judaism will come via a book initiative being spearheaded by a Massachusetts philanthropy (via JPost)
  • Now that e-readers are breaking big, technologists are already looking at making them disposable (via Fox News)
  • The subject of boys not reading (which we opined on this spring) has a go around in New Zealand (via Stuff NZ)
  • Bleak days for locally owned bookstores, like the recently closed Cornerstone Books, but the industry soldiers on (via Boston Globe)
  • Cafe and book selling culture go hand-in-hand for South Koreans (via IHT)
  • In case you missed it yesterday morning, CBS Sunday Morning profiled an absolutely heartwarming story of charity during the Great Depression and the discovery of its secret benefactor, now featured in a new book (via CBS)
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  1. B3 Week in Review | Boston Book Bums - December 4, 2010

    [...] Week in Review Monday: We started off the week with book news in BIR and followed up the post with an Author 411: Tom Franklin, writer of Crooked Letter, Crooked [...]

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