Pete Stavros of KKR: "If you're managing teachers' pension money and you want to just raise everyone's salary, that's on the backs of teachers, which is not ethical, and it's not our money. So what can we do? Ownership is a way of trying to navigate to a win-win." - Yahoo! (Slate)
"Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education filed the suit against Library Genesis, also known as LibGen, in Manhattan federal court, citing 'extensive violations' of copyright law. LibGen operates a collection of different domains that allow users to search for and download pdf versions of books." - The Guardian
KDP said that, while it has not yet “seen a spike in our publishing numbers,” it is lowering the number of new titles users can update to the platform daily to three, “in order to help protect against abuse.” - Publishers Weekly
I blithely assumed reading would be mine to reclaim when the right moment arrived. But when I finally looked toward my bookshelves, I found that the desire to read had evaporated. Not a single title on my teetering to-be-read pile appealed. - Washington Post
"Jones’s work is galvanised by her respect for the children who read her books. They are warm, sardonic and, in places, unexpectedly elliptical." - The Guardian (UK)
"The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent will be published on 7 March 2024 by Faber, featuring 16 sets of lyrics alongside specially commissioned illustrations by Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli and an introduction by Ishiguro." - The Guardian
Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories which gain attention and make ‘impact’. But anyone in the business of reporting on reality - scholars, scientists, journalists - ought to be suspicious of narrative, even if they use it. - Ian Leslie
In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali) founded the publisher still known as Writers Workshop, dedicated to Indian writing in English, which gave a start to many authors now famous worldwide. - Literary Hub
"I find talking about the ridiculousness of the bans sometimes brings laughter, in the ways our people have learned to laugh to keep from crying. We do what we need to do: we resist, we inform, we amplify, we write.” - Harper's Bazaar
"Argentina's Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during Tuesday's raids in the town of San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires." - AP
"This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that 'Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,' as (language scientist Julie Sedivy) put it." Recent research put this observation to the test. - Psyche
"I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications. The A.I. chatbots’ answers have been edited for brevity and clarity." - The New York Times
