Drastic measures in defense of books
Two levels below ground, in a place constructed to protect Cornell University's literary treasures, someone's done some serious damage. In an age when...
BRILL and Publishing Technology Expand Partnership
Publishing Technology, a provider of software and services to the publishing industry, announced that it is expanding its partnership with Dutch acade...
ALA-APA call for certification, publishing and fundraising committee volunteers
CHICAGO - American Library Association-Allied Professional Association ( ALA - APA ) President-elect Molly Raphael has extended the deadline for the c...
Reuters - Sliding profit margins at Amazon.com prompted mixed reactions from analysts on Friday, a day after it posted quarterly results, though most ...
Reuters - Amazon.com founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos trimmed his stake in the world's biggest online retailer to under 20 percent last year, a ...
Reuters - Amazon.com founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos trimmed his stake in the world's biggest online retailer on New Year's Eve, a regulatory f...
Amazon.Com Reports Profit Margin Slid
Amazon.com sales got a boost from a healthy holiday season. Digital book sales were a particular bright spot. But rising costs hurt profits. The compa...
Amazon Reports That Profit Margin Slid
Amazon.com sales got a boost from a healthy holiday season. Digital book sales were a particular bright spot. But rising costs hurt profits. The compa...
Reuters - Amazon.com investors got a wake-up call on Thursday when the world's biggest online retailer said its profit margins were sliding as it spen...
Reuters - Amazon.com forecast lower margins than some investors hoped for, reflecting the costs of its growth strategy, and shares of the world's larg...
Amazon.Com 4Q Revenue Misses Forecasts
The results reflect the unevenness in this holiday's shopping season, as people started to pick up their spending again after the official end of the ...
AP - Amazon.com uncharacteristically missed Wall Street's revenue target in the fourth quarter, sending the stock tumbling 9 percent and showing that ...
Reuters - Amazon.com posted quarterly revenue that fell short of analysts' estimates on Thursday and its shares fell almost 10 percent.......
Reuters - Netflix Inc shares soared 15 percent on Thursday as another round of strong quarterly results shelved any short-term worries about an overhe...
Reuters - Shares of Amazon.com rose on Thursday, hours before the Web retailer is expected to report impressive quarterly revenue gains from the holid...
Reuters - Amazon.com is expected to post impressive fourth quarter sales results on Thursday, fueled by momentum throughout the key holiday season, b...
US Library of Congress nets hawk
A hawk that spent a week circling inside the main reading room of the US Library of Congress is captured.......
Hawk Caught, Removed From Library Of Congress
A wayward winged predator that had been stuck since last week in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress was captured today and sent for a re...
American Library Association Weighs In On Enfield, Sicko
From the latest issue of American Libraries : Asserting that the controversy in Enfield "reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the pu...
Nancy Pearl: an interview with the 2011 Librarian of the Year
When Seattle super librarian Nancy Pearl was named 2011 Librarian of the Year by the American Library Association her fans asked: "Why did it take so ...