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"A book is not a bomb" says fact-finding mission2011-06-16
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign.
Connexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?2012-10-08
Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT).
IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from Google2009-10-30
International Federation of Journalists
the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas2012-05-05
Leftwords
LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent ...
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Banning of Books Alarms Freedom AdvocatesKuppusamy, Baradan
Article
2010
IPS
The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expressio...
The Book-of-the-Millennium ClubMacdonald, Dwight
Article
1952
For $249.50, which is (for all practical purposes) $250, one could buy, in 1952, a hundred pounds of Great Books: four hundred and forty-three works by seventy-six authors, ranging chronologically and...
Books banned by governments, list ofConnexipedia Article
Article
This article intends to list works, such as novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and essays that have banned by governments over time.
Bookworms RejoiceDigital deal paves the way for online access
Johnson, Bobbie
Article
2008
Guardian Weekly
Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in ColombiaBringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
Chelala, Cesar
Unclassified
2014
CounterPunch
A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
Capital on CD-Rom, Cat Optional - CD-Rom ReviewFinkel, Joel R.
Article
1999
Against the Current
Karl Marx's Multimedia Capital, v.1. Cominsane Press, 1998. Distributed by Monthly Review Press, 1-800-670-9499. $20.
The Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009Freedom to Read
Article
1989
Book and Periodical Council
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
Cover story: a year of beautiful booksPublishers are fighting back against the ebook tide with great designs
Hughes, Kathryn
Article
2011
The Guardian
Publishers have started building their marketing strategies around form rather than content.
The article emphasises that the whole point of a good book design is to grab the attention of both the rea...
The Danger of Being Neighborly Without a PermitFriedersdorf, Conor
Article
2015
Media Channel
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement.The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neigh...
ebookcollectiveWebsite
Bills itself as "a centralized location for your leftist literature."
Fame & Fortune OnlineWebsite
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Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
Fanning the flames of intoleranceThe burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Henley, John
Article
2010
The Guardian
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
Fiction v nonfiction - English literature's made-up divide Fiction v non: an English affliction?
Lea, Richard
Article
2016
The Guardian Weekly
Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction - and instead talk of 'stories'. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy tellin...
For bibliomaniacs, there is no cureLiterary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
Berry, Lorraine
Article
2017
The Guardian Weekly
An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
Frequently Asked Questions about SourcesArticle
2009
Sources
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, c...
From Cave Paintings to the InternetNorman, Jeremy
Article
2013
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
Getting your story into the mediaArticle
2009
Sources
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people w...
Helping you reach the mediaHow Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Article
2009
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Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity ...
'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books? From the Book of Kells to Walter Benjamin, literary history is marked with tantalising absences – which two bibliophiles have made it their
Berry, Lorraine
Article
2018
The Guardian
Essay on the allure of rare and lost books, inspired by Giorgio van Straten's recent work, " In Search of Lost Books".
IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from GoogleSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
Iran: Book Censorship The Rule, Not The ExceptionSarkouhi, Faraj
Article
2007
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Censorship in Iran has intensified over the last two years, with many books appearing only in expunged versions, while others previously available have had subsequent print runs banned.
Keeping Books SafeA Bad Law Threatens Our Past
Nicol, Elizabeth Mullaney
Article
2009
The New Atlantis
Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the ...
Librarians and PalestineAn Interview with Vani Natarajan
Jacobs, Ron
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
A library without books? OSU and other universities purging dusty volumesRubinkam, Michael
Article
2018
Katu 2
A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favour of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that ...
Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English libraryGadzo, Mersiha
Article
2017
Al Jazeera
Mosab Abu Toha, works to expand his collection of English books to create a public library that will enrich the lives and society within Gaza during the Israeli occupation.
Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Article
2012
Connexions and Beit Zatoun
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). G...
My life as a bibliophileBarnes, Julian
Article
2012
The Guardian
From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world Goñi,Uki
Article
2015
The Guardian
Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Diemer, Ulli
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co...
Powerful publicity and marketing tools for publishers and authorsArticle
2009
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Helping authors and publishers to publicize themselves and their books with a package of marketing and media relations tools designed to get publicity in the media and to reach readers and book buyers...
The Price of Books, The Value of CivilizationMundy, Toby
Article
2014
I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description...
Sources BookshelfWebsite
2009
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Featuring books and DVDs by Sources member authors.
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowdArticle
2009
Sources
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their ...
Sources Select AuthorsWebsite
2009
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Authors available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
Twelve of the world's most beautiful bookshopsPhoto/Image/Poster
2015
The Guardian
From an underground carpark in China to a converted theatre in Argentina, take a look at some of the most stunning bookshops around the world.
Young Adult Canadian Book AwardArticle
2006
Winners from 1981 on.
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Being WrongAdventures in the Margin of Error
Schulz, Carol
Book
2010
Being wrong is an improving, humbling experience. The experience of error is an adventure, because the propensity for making mistakes is inseparable from our imagination. It is necessary if we are to ...
The Cost of Free SpeechLee, Simon
Book
1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book o...
Defining Moments in BooksThe Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages, and Events that Shook the Literary World
Lucy, Daniel
Book
2007
Double FoldLibraries and the Assault on Paper
Baker, Nicholson
Book
2001
Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of ...
The Encyclopedia of American ComicsFrom 1897 to the Present
Goulart, Ron (Ed.)
Book
1990
A reference work of over a 1000 entries devoted to the phenomenon of the American comic, covering almost a century of comic production from the introduction of the genre in 1897 to the latest (1990) s...
International Book of ComicsGifford, Denis
Unclassified
1984
First appearing in 1984, the book takes a nostalgic look at comics from the early and latter day British strips and comic books, right through to Continental European publications, and North American ...
The Library at NightManguel, Alberto
Book
2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
Powerful publicity and marketing tools for publishers and authorsArticle
2009
Helping authors and publishers to publicize themselves and their books with a package of marketing and media relations tools designed to get publicity in the media and to reach readers and book buyers...
Sources Select ResourcesReviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Website
1977
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
The Woman ReaderJack, Belinda
Book
2012
Belinda Jack's history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired, explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.
Atlantic Books TodayThe Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association is an industry support organization representing book publishers located in Atlantic Canada. The publishers in Atlantic Canada believe a vigorous Atlantic...
BC BookworldBooks, authors and publishers of British Columbia.
BookTelevision: The ChannelSpotlights fiction, non-fiction, erotica, psychology, cookbooks, sports writing, poetry, drama, movies, political speechwriting, journalism, advertising, websites, comics, children's lit, the popular ...
Canadian BooksellerRCC is a not-for-profit, industry-funded association representing more than 45,000 store fronts of all retail formats across Canada, including department, specialty, discount, and independent stores, ...
READ-Life With BooksInterviews with writers, book reviews, industry news. Free distribution to bookstores across Canada. Kids Read magazine is on the flip side of READ magazine.
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