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By Cindy Orr and Sarah Statz Cords
New To the Bestseller Lists This Week:
FICTION
NONFICTION
GRAPHIC BOOKS
To Be Published Week of Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, 2012:
Fiction
Nonfiction
This is just a sample from our picks of the week. Scroll down or click here for the complete list, including ISBNs.
Best Books of 2011
It’s Best Books of the Year season! Look to the right hand column for our collection of links, or click here. As we find new lists, we’ll add them at the top of the column.
News of the Week:
Ebook News:
ALA To Meet With Top Executives of Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin on Ebook Lending
OverDrive Reports 35 Million Digital Titles Checked Out in 2011, Page Views Up 130 Percent
Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays
Library e-Book Wars and Bundling
Is Digital Rights Management NOT the way to go?
Sesame Street launches digital series
Social networks, privacy, etc.:
New social network for book lovers
Take a look at Google’s new privacy policy
And all other things literary:
Amazon makes a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
No wonder it’s hard to keep up; “there were more books published this week than in all of 1950.”
Indie publisher Melville House turns 10
Washington, D.C., the nation’s most literate city
Professional Development Opportunities:
Library Journal webcast: Meet the Power Patron
Books on Screen
Six of the nine best picture films are from books
The obligatory Downton Abbey post
Sweet Valley High, the musical!
Awards
2012 Oscar nominations are in!
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
Andrew Miller wins the Costa Award; now Short Stories have their own Costa Award as well
All awards ALA, announced last week:
2012 ALA Notable Books
ALA Reading List Awards
Newbery and other youth awards
RUSA Listen List
2012 odyssey award
Sophie Brody Medal; Louis Shores Award (congrats Sarah Johnson!); Zora Neale Hurston Award; Stonewall Book Award
Authors
Charla Krupp: Obituary
Newt Gingrich: SF author
Charlotte Bronte, love letter writer
Tolkien’s Middle-earth “family tree”
Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day turns 50
Lists
The 5 Books That Inspire the Most Tattoos
Most Dangerous Novels of all time
New York Times Editors’ Choice for Jan. 27
Lighthearted Links of the Week
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak (video)
