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Bookish Intelligence Report

28 Jan

BIR-1Our news feature, Bookish Intelligence Report has returned! Right now we’re going to be focusing on getting you a comprehensive round-up of news once a week. But that’s just to start.

And now, the news…

  • Mural of books shore up a N.C. bookstore (via LA Times)
  • San Antonio-area readers get a new library…devoid of a single print book (via HLN TV)
  • Book swaps as cultural spur in Egypt (via Egyptian Independent)
  • 10,000 book collection up for auction (via Pasadena Sun)
  • Libraries are still valued, according to report (via Missoulian)
  • YA keeps kids reading (via The Ledger)
  • Stunning artwork carved from books (via MNN)
  • Taking care of your books (via Journal Star)
  • Harper Collins on the move (via MediaBistro)
  • Downton Abbey fans may have a literary cousin to feast on (via Auburn Pub)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

23 Dec

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Bookish Intelligence Report

21 Dec
  • Library supporters vow to keep closed lending institution open (via Evening Standard)
  • Do you agree, are these “brilliant” books of 2011 (via Telegraph)
  • Overlooked sci-fi of 2011 (via Salon)
  • The books of Australia (via ABC)
  • Genre fiction’s little letter to its more respected cousin, literature (via Guardian)
  • Xmas book choices for kids (via NJ.com)
  • Text books filled with errors go to schools without check (via Washington Post)
  • Will higher ebook prices drive readers back to paperbacks (via Christian Science Monitor)
  • The last of the book sculptures (via Scotsman)
  • Larsson partner unhappy with spin-off marketing of his books (via Hindustan Times)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

19 Dec

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Bookish Intelligence Report

16 Dec
  • Berlin indie booksellers make a successful splash (via DW)
  • It’s a holiday showdown between brick and mortar and bytes (via The Republic)
  • What’s selling like hot cakes in SoCal? (via LA Observed)
  • Another small Massachusetts bookseller shutters (via Daily Hampshire Gazette)
  • A UK recommendation for a winter read comes from a very American favorite (via Guardian)
  • If you’re looking for a comic book boom town, it is Sacramento (via Sacramento Press)
  • Opening up the Filipino e-book market (via CNET)
  • Gardening books to inspire (via Cleveland.com)
  • Book critics favs from 2011 (via NPR)
  • New books for crafters (via Calgary Herald)
  • How a bookcover states its intent, like a good pick-up artist (via Independent)
  • Books snatched from Canadian family center (via CBC)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

14 Dec
  • How to learn to love reading (via Ottawa Citizen)
  • Author of The Bookseller of Kabul cleared of invasion of privacy (via Guardian)
  • What do you think, should you say ‘see ya’ to your local bookstore and shop online (via Slate)
  • Bookshelf etiquette (via Telegraph)
  • Top 10 biz books of the year (via Globe and Mail)
  • Hopes for village run library in UK are dashed (via BBC)
  • Astoria’s only indie bookstore to close (via New York Daily News)
  • Far-right author in Italy kills two men, then himself (via Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Did Somali pirates burn man’s books (via Hampton Roads.com)
  • Book sales spike this holiday season, but can it be sustained (via Time)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

12 Dec
  • Books planned to mark 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act (via AP)
  • Professor in Rochester, NY collects book for Nigerian home (via Democrat and Chronicle)
  • Not just a simple top ten list, but 32 top books of 2011 (via Seattle Times)
  • Books with a local touch from Cincinnati (via Cincinnati.com)
  • Folk tales of Afghanistan help educate a new generation of girls (via Washington Post)
  • Library circulation desk draws attention (via FDLReporter)
  • Some last minute books as gifts ideas (via Daily Herald)
  • 2,000 pop-up books donated to UNH (via Fosters Daily Democrat)
  • Pair of books prompt questions about Amsterdam’s Jewish community (via Ha’aretz)
  • Oxford University Press changes position on publishing certain controversial books (via Inside Higher Ed)
  • $1million given to New Zealand authors to boost profile internationally (via Voxy)
  • Book about lavish lifestyle of terrorist wife (via The Australian)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

9 Dec
  • Wherever the campaigns go, book sales are close behind (via WSJ)
  • Forest City, Iowa loses another bookstore (via Globe Gazette)
  • E-books prove popular at Kalamazoo library system (via MLive.com)
  • Christmas tree made out of books (via LA Times)
  • According to Amazon, the book biz is booming (via Reuters)
  • UK shuttered cinema reopens as library (via BBC)
  • Some hockey books sure to please the puck fan (via Chronicle Herald)
  • Notable authors pick their top books of 2011 (via Salon)
  • How cheap classics undercut new books (via Guardian)
  • Need last minute gardening book ideas for the green thumb of the house (via Detroit News)
  • New Massachusetts library aims to be green (via Westwood Patch)
  • When comic book legends go to war over politics (via Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Aussie bookstore fails, resurrected by former employee (via Melbourne Leader)
  • Bookstore in Jerusalem, harassed for immodesty, bows to pressure (via Care2)
  • Review of book chronicling the London riots (via  Telegraph)
  • Voices unheard from the Middle East, the gay community (via Le Monde- in French)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

7 Dec
  • Barre Books in Vermont to shutter (via Times Argus)
  • Sci-fi author Fred Saberhagen donates papers to Illinois university (via Chicago Sun Times)
  • Four books sure to appeal to movie lovers (via Christian Science Monitor)
  • Some indie bookstores are surviving the bibliophilic retail bare-knuckle fight (via Oak Park)
  • A trio of books about Detroit (via Detroit News)
  • We agree with this Georgia columnist sentiments, It’s not Christmas without books (via Rockdale Citizen)
  • Mexican presidential candidate stumped to name three books that influenced him (via NZ Herald)
  • Another observation that GOP field heavily shilling books (via ABC News)
  • Publisher of new Poe book defends author against claims of stolen content (via CBS News)
  • Amanda Knox maneuvering for book deal (via Atlantic Wire)

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Bookish Intelligence Report

5 Dec
  • New book about war-time Lebanon with a pop-art look (via The National)
  • Some four million kids in UK don’t own a book (via Telegraph)
  • Irish bookseller chain axes employees (via Irish Independent)
  • Hardcover annotate Peter Pan (via Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • Fiction picks for the holidays (via Guardian)
  • Holiday themed books not exclusive to kids reading (via Sacramento Bee)
  • Booksellers shifting to digital sales (via Calgary Herald)
  • Charleston library sets tasks of restoring old books (via Post & Courier)
  • Fahrenheit 451 goes digital, despite authors misgivings (via BBC)
  • Top books out in Kings County library (via Seattle Times)
  • Some favorite books from readers in Vancouver (via Vancouver Sun)
  • Also from Vancouver, more picks, this time from local notables (via Vancouver Sun)

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