NEW YORK - With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.
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The recent National Endowment for the Arts study, To Read or Not To Read, has reared its disturbing head again. When it was first announced, I chose not to comment. No need, Alfie Kohn, delivered my knee jerk reaction much more eloquently than I could have, in Do Kids Read Less for Fun? Blame Standardized Tests. Of course, blaming it on NCLB is too easy for such a complex issue. That said, I’m glad he did.
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NEW YORK - With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.
Forget CliffNotes or making teens write raps about star-crossed lovers: The "Hamlet" Facebook page blends Shakespeare and contemporary zeitgeist!
The recent National Endowment for the Arts study, To Read or Not To Read, has reared its disturbing head again. When it was first announced, I chose not to comment. No need, Alfie Kohn, delivered my knee jerk reaction much more eloquently than I could have, in Do Kids Read Less for Fun? Blame Standardized Tests. Of course, blaming it on NCLB is too easy for such a complex issue. That said, I’m glad he did.
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