Reading Habits Around The World In 2020
Global English Editing gathered statistics from Pew Research, Amazon’s bestsellers page, and other sources to create an infographic showing the world’s current reading habits and how they changed during the pandemic. It would be interesting to compare how countries’ governments handled the pandemic with whether reading time went up or down for that country.
Jail Bans Physical Books For Limited Ebooks Via Tablets They Profit From
Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania used to allow inmates to receive books sent directly from Barnesandnoble.com and Christianbooks.com. But they’ve banned that in order to implement a new tablet program that allows inmates the use of tablets to read 263 selected materials, family photos, and video visits. The tablet program, however, “costs money out of an inmate’s pocket and baked on those fee[s],” Allegheny County gets more than $4 million in kickbacks.
Joy Harjo Reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate
Joy Harjo, who is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the U.S. poet laureate and the first Native American poet to serve in that role. Now she’ll be taking on the role for a third term, having been reappointed as only the second poet laureate to serve three terms in a row in the position’s 77 years of existence.