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Ian MacAllen
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
One Moore Books in Monrovia, Liberia, plans on publishing books aimed at children. The shop was founded by thirty-year-old Wayétu Moore, who fled Liberia as a refugee at the age of five. Three years ago, Jenny Milchman launched Take Your…
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From Self-Published Author to Publisher
Meredith Wild is a self-published author, a success story of Amazon’s DIY digital publishing revolution. Wild has been so successful, in fact, that she has since launched her own independent publishing house to handle her books and those from other authors.…
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Notable NYC: 1/30–2/5
Saturday 1/30: Rick Moody talks with Dave Schramm and will play a selection of live music. Little City Books (Hoboken), 8 p.m., $25. Michael Morse, Kristina Bicher, Mary Lou Buschi, Emily Skilings, Wendy Weinstein, and Sharon Mesmer join the Couplet…
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Tearing Down the Paywall
Academic journals are essential to scholarly research. Scientists making new discoveries publish their findings in these journals, for example, but also read the journals to stay abreast of the latest research. The journals are also hugely profitable—just not for the…
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White Women Dominate Publishing?
Man Booker prize-winner Marlon James was right: the people who work in publishing are overwhelmingly white and female. New data shows that publishing executives, editors, and the staff behind books are predominantly white women: At the executive level, publishing is 86…
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Oxford Dictionary to Review Sexist Sentences
A Twitter storm over sexism within the Oxford Dictionary has lead its publisher, Oxford University Press, to reconsider how it selects example sentences, reports the Guardian. The dictionary includes sentences to explain usage of words, but researchers found that the book…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
A huge new bookstore in the heart of Mexico’s drug cartel region hopes to combat ‘narco culture’ by offering an alternative, including classes for children and adults. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore in Boulder, Colorado has plans to move to a larger…
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Notable NYC: 1/23–1/29
Saturday 1/23: Kristina Bicher, Claudia Cortese, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Sharon Mesmer join Couplet, a quarterly reading series. The Delancey, 7 p.m., free. Robert Fitterman reads from his latest collection along with Brian Droltcour at the Segue Series. Zinc Bar,…
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China Shows Off Missing Publisher, Locates Bookseller
For months, the owners of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong have been missing. One of the missing booksellers, publisher Gui Minhai, appeared on Chinese state television to confess to turning himself into Chinese authorities for an alleged twelve-year-old drunk driving…
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Seoul’s Tiny Mobile Libraries
Seoul Innovation Park in South Korea is home to four tiny, mobile libraries, part of a project to bring culture to the public space. Each of the unique libraries offers books and a touch of physical art in the park.…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
David Bowie often shopped at New York City’s The Strand, hidden in a disguise of ordinary. #Bookstorecats has been trending on Instagram, featuring snaps of shops’ feline booksellers. The daughter of one of the missing Hong Kong booksellers has dismissed Gui…
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Author Pay Conflict Heats Up in Britain
The row between authors and the literary festivals that don’t pay escalated last week when Philip Pullman resigned from the Oxford Literary Festival. Pullman also serves as the president to the British Society of Authors, a group that has been…