The link below is to an article that looks at how you can encourage your kids to read during the holiday break.
For more visit:
http://theconversation.com/preventing-your-kids-summer-reading-slide-34361
The link below is to a book review of ‘Sharing Our Lives Online – Risks and Exposure in Social Media,’ by David R. Brake.
Ebooks are feeling a bit hungover heading into the new year. The 50 Shades of Grey exuberance of 2011 and 2012 feels long ago. The first seemingly viable ebook subscription services launched at the end of 2013 (Scribd, Oyster) and Amazon launched its own ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, mid-2014.
The main difference between Kindle Unlimited and Scribd and Oyster — all of which cost around $10 a month — is that Kindle Unlimited has way fewer books that people have heard of. That’s because Scribd and Oyster have been able to attract big-5 publishers (HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, likely soon Macmillan) that hope to shake Amazon’s dominance in the ebook market, so they see no reason to make their books available on Kindle Unlimited.
Kindle Unlimited (KU), meanwhile, is attracting a bunch of negative press coverage as indie authors become disillusioned by it. The general bad feeling has…
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The link below is to a book review of ‘Ukraine Crisis – What It Means for the West,’ by Andrew Wilson.
For more visit:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/12/16/book-review-ukraine-crisis-what-it-means-for-the-west-by-andrew-wilson/
The link below is to a book review of ‘In the Name of the People – Angola’s Forgotten Massacre,’ by Lara Pawson.
For more visit:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/12/17/book-review-in-the-name-of-the-people-angolas-forgotten-massacre-by-lara-pawson/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at re-reading books/ebooks.
For more visit:
http://www.bustle.com/articles/50770-11-joys-of-re-reading-books-because-starting-over-at-page-1-is-a-feeling-you-cant
The link below is to an article that takes a look at how to retain information you have read from books and articles.
For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/12/how-to-better-retain-information-from-books-articles-and-more/
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