B Reviews / Book ReviewsAfrica / cats / children's book / Nigeria / picture books / POC / POC author2 Comments
What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door Go and investigate of course! A hugely entertaining look at the fascinating masquerade culture of West Africa, from the perspective of a plucky young Nigerian girl who finds ... more >
Publishing NewsAfrica / children's lit / literacy / Literary fiction / non-profits / online retailers / Orwell / recipes / shopping2 Comments
How the e-retailers keep us spending – With another big US shopping day ahead of us (New Year’s Day), this is an interesting piece on how online retailers have been moving in the direction of globalizing local celebrations, holidays, or traditional spending days (e.g. Black Friday) to capture the global ... more >
Publishing NewsAfrica / Agency pricing / Amazon / booksellers / colonialism / Contest / Hachette / internet sales / Literary fiction / maps / Microsoft / sales tax / software / use tax10 Comments
Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices – The war appears to be over between Hachette and Amazon, and whatever the state of their relationship, readers get the return of Agency Pricing. Yippee. When the new ebook terms take place in early 2015, “Hachette ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsAfrica / African American / Contemporary / Fantasy / inspirational / POC / POC author10 Comments
African King Taka Olufemi has traveled over four hundred years to find the woman who holds the soul of his murdered queen and he’s a little cranky. With a ruby brooch as his vessel, the former king is forced to grant wishes to ungrateful mortals hoping to one day find, ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading Lists18th-century / 19th century / 20th century / Africa / crime / Historical / India / Movie / New Adult / non-fiction / Paranormal / POC / Reading lists / rock stars / silent movie / Tudor-England / Witches / Writer11 Comments
My Planet by Mary Roach From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary ... more >
Publishing NewsAfrica / apartheid / CDA / digital libraries / diversity / Free Speech / gender / Ghana / literacy / Literary fiction / Modernism / privacy / racism / revenge porn / South Africa / Tor / Woolf2 Comments
Tor Project sued for $1 million in revenge porn case – Pinkmeth, a particularly horrible revenge porn site is being sued, and for a while, TOR was being sued right along with it. Although the action against TOR was quickly dropped,I wanted to start at the beginning of this drama, ... more >