Rising paper price ups books prices in China for now and perhaps later the world is the title of Henry Sanderson piece for the Associated Press.He reports that the government "crackdown on small, polluting paper mills have caused a paper crunch in China, pushing up the price of paper by 10 percent this year and forcing printers to delay books and publishers to raise prices.""Paper mills, most of them small, inefficient operations, accounted for 17 percent of all industrial water pollution in 2005, according to the Chinese Paper Association, an industry group."Why is this price increase good news? Because it...
Library Thief Uses Her Kids as Cover
Akron, Ohio police have arrested Tammie Ware on felony charges after finding more than 1000 items from the Akron-Summit County Public Library in her house.Her MO:Once the fines for overdue material on one library card got too high she would bring her kids in again and sign them up for a new library card using fake names.I am not sure how many kids Ware actually has but according to library records "she had listed thirty-five children" with her overdue fines totaling more than $8000.Not only did Ware steal books, CD's and DVD's but she also stole toys from the children's...
Happy Birthday ‘A Christmas Carol’
Today marks the 164th anniversary of the publication of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens.First published in 1843 'A Christmas Carol' went on to sell 6,000 copies in 5 days! I am sure that would translate into bestseller numbers today.Though known as 'A Christmas Carol' the full title of the work is A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas and was written by Dickens to raise money to settle some debts.The University of South Carolina Libraries has an online exhibit celebrating all the Christmas related books and stuff of Dickens. The exhibit is titled The Man...
Icon Crossing: Harry Meets Darth
Photo by Esteban Diacono from his The Real World: Darth Vadar seriesvia Dark Roasted Blend and their image packed two part tribute to Star Wars.Part 1 January o7Part 2 December 07Avi Abrams contributed this:
Sweet Textualities
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..." -Francis Bacon "Of Studies" (The Essays, 1601)Book Patrol is pleased to share another guest post from Charles Seluzicki.******************************Among the hundreds of confections crowding three full aisles in our local Dollar Store, two particularly attracted my attention:CANDICRAFT. Delicious Ink N' Paper You Can Eat! The packet contains one liquid candy filled pen and three pieces of candy paper in four flavors.AndTAFFYTOONS. This taffy bar with crunchy bits exclaims on its wrapper: "You can eat the pictures!"Think of the pedagogical possibilities: "You may eat...