OverDrive Reports Record Digital Borrowing in 2019
Public libraries around the world generated a record level of digital content circulation in 2019, providing patrons access to more than 326 million e-books, audiobooks and digital magazines, according to a report by Rakuten OverDrive, a digital distribution vendor for libraries.
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United Methodist Publishing Plans for Church Split
Following the proposal by leaders from the United Methodist Church to split the denomination over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, the church’s publishing arm says it will remain with the post-separated church and adjust operations according to congregants’ needs.
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Job Moves
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Zareen Jaffery, formerly executive editor of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, will join Kokila as executive editor effective January 13.
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Natalie Capogrossi has joined Random House Children’s Books as assistant school marketing manager.
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Emily Duval has been promoted to library marketing manager, from assistant manager, at Random House Children’s Books.
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Cassie Stossel
has been promoted to publicity manager at New Harbinger Publications and can be contacted at cassie.stossel@newharbinger.com.
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Picture of the Day
It's a small world: pictured here (from l. to r.), Harvey Solomon, author of 'Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America during World War II' (Potomac Books) and Jonathan Rosenberg, author of 'Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music from the Great War to the Cold War' (W.W. Norton), met up after appearing back-to-back at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., on January 4. Rosenberg wrote a blurb that appears on the back of Solomon's book.
Courtesy Diane Patrick