Bloomsbury publishing director Liz Calder said the next and final Harry Potter book is “likely” to be released in 2007… she hopes.
At the British Council’s Creative Future conference in India this week, Calder allegedly said as much in an interview with Indo-Asian News Service:
cathyp writes “An article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail featured a high school in Illinois that is going to be requiring students that participate in extracurricular activities to sign a pledge agreeing to be held accountable for any illegal or inappropriate behaviour they write about online.”
gsandler writes “This article in USA TODAY lists the books that authors such as Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, Wally Lamb and Dennis Lehane plan to read this summer. A fun article. King’s list is very eclectic including Herman Melville, Robert Penn Warren, and Donald Westlake.”
Not supporting libraries is like saying you’re against mom and apple pie. But opposing a ballot measure to borrow $600 million in bonds for libraries isn’t about disliking books or opposing literacy. It’s about fiscal common sense. Story continued here…
Tim Berners-Lee stated that Semantic Web technologies are ready for mainstream use at the 2006 World Wide Web conference.
Leave to a USA Today to put the results of a recent meta-analysis of drug studies in simple bar graph form. In reputable psychiatric journals, “drugs fare favorably when companies pay for studies.” Given the intense marketing of these products, should we be surprised by this? Are medical journals becoming the equivalent of right and left wing “think tanks”?
Cites & Insights 6:8, June 2006, is now available for downloading.
The 26-page issue (PDF as usual, but most essays are available as HTML pages from the C&I home page) includes:
From The Australian:
IN literary Australia, there’s reading, writing … and festival going. As author Frank Moorhouse reveals in Review today, the last has become a seriously big-budget item, with 46 writers festivals held each year in Australia.Last year, about 285,000 event seats were filled at these festivals, an attendance rate that is increasing annually by up to 20 per cent. Admittedly this bums-on-seats measure includes people going to more than one session at a festival but, even so, it’s thought 90,000 individuals went to writers festivals in 2005.
This increasing popularity has led some to criticize the events as gathering places for anti-establishment liberals. In response, “one programmer jokes, ‘the Right is usually too busy making money and ruling the world to attend. The Left is much more inclined to want to change things.'”
CandiC writes: “OCLC promised to sift the Perceptions data from college students out into a new report and they’ve delivered with the College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources report.
Even if you’ve examined the original Perceptions report in detail, it’s worth checking the new report out because OCLC promises there are ‘all-new graphs and additional analysis of how college student data compare to that of total respondents.’
(via the It’s All Good Blog)”
From the AP via Yahoo!:
“Mr. Snicket believes that summertime is such a dangerous season, what with sunburn and melted ice cream and the possibility of summer camp, that it’s best to stay indoors and read,” said Snicket’s “representative,” Daniel Handler, who still denies the overwhelming evidence that he is in fact the author of the million-selling Snicket books, “A Series of Unfortunate Events.”
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