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The best deal in Tampa Bay? Try your local library – Tampa Bay Times
News St. Petersburg The best deal in Tampa Bay? Try your local library. What do museum tickets, legal advice and plant seeds have in common? You can get them at the library. By Lauren Peace, Times staff, Published Earlier today It is not Costco. Or Goodwill. Or that place with all-you-can-eat shrimp. It is certainly…
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What Seattle read in 2025: Seattle Public Library’s most popular books – The Seattle Times
What Seattle read in 2025: Seattle Public Library’s most popular books Dec. 18, 2025 at 6:00 am, Updated Dec. 18, 2025 at 6:00 am “Three Days in June” by Anne Tyler. (Knopf) “Three Days in June” by Anne Tyler. (Knopf) By Elisa Murray Special to The Seattle Times The Seattle Public Library loves to promote…
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Why the Public Library Is Giving Away 1,000 Books – The New York Times
New York Today Why the Public Library Is Giving Away 1,000 Books The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches. Listen to this article · 9:24 min Learn more By James Barron, Nov. 20, 2025 Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find…
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S.F. Public Library’s main ebook provider to shut down – San Francisco Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Public Library’s main ebook service is suddenly shutting down By Aidin Vaziri, Staff WriterUpdated Nov 17, 2025 5:50 p.m. Editor’s note: There is an audio file in the online article, I cannot include here. –DrWeb San Francisco’s library patrons are about to lose access to one of their most-used ebook…
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More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution – Los Angeles Times
California More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution A worker shelves books at the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach. The Long Beach Public Library is participating in Books Unbanned, a nationwide effort to provide access to books for young people. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) By Annie…
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Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks | WIRED
In the five years since its launch, Bookshop.org has amassed quite the loyal following. The online retailer shares its sales revenue with bookstores around the US, and has become a popular destination for online customers who would rather help keep their local bookstore in business than send money to big retailers like Amazon. Until now,…
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Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in December
First Reads is a program that gets you early access to new books across popular genres. Prime members get a free Kindle e-book every month from a curated list hand-picked by editors. Source: Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in December
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Introducing the new EPUB reader for e-books at the Library of Congress | The Signal
Published February 2, 2023 by Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. The Open Access Books Collection on loc.gov includes approximately 6,000 contemporary open access e-books covering a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All books in…
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Learning to Love Paper Books Again | Tor.com
By James Davis Nicoll, Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:00pm I was an early adopter of ebooks, in part because of my terrible eyesight, but mostly because I happened to break into reviewing just before the 2001 anthrax attacks. Fear of contaminated packages increased shipping time for cases of manuscripts from four days to forty. Electronic…
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Amazon’s e-book return policy comes under criticism from authors : NPR
By Deanna Schwartz Twitter, June 27, 20225:00 AM ET Earlier this month, Lisa Kessler, a paranormal romance author, logged into Kindle Direct Publishing to check her earnings from the previous month. On her publishing dashboard, she saw something she had never seen before in her 11 years as an author: a negative earnings balance. The…
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Why Are Ebooks So Terrible? – The Atlantic
By Ian Bogost, September 14, 2021 Perhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. Maybe it’s snobbery. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. Maybe I can’t stand the idea of looking at books as computers after a long…
