Walmart To Compete With Amazon Kindle
Walmart is poised to compete with Amazon’s Kindle business with plans to sell ereaders, ebooks, and audiobooks. The company is partnering with Rakuten, Japan’s biggest e-commerce company, to make it happen. Walmart will start selling Aura-branded ereaders made by Kobo, and offer customers access to Kobo’s library of nearly six million titles through a co-branded Walmart-Kobo app.
The Award For Thrillers That Avoid Sexual Violence Against Women
Author and screenwriter Bridget Lawless is launching (and funding) the Staunch book prize for the best thriller “in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered.” The winner of the £2,000 prize will be announced on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Lawless decided to launch the prize after seeing the number of films featuring rape as a plot device at the 2017 Baftas.
Blame The Internet
…For your failing memory of the books you’ve read, that is. The Atlantic explored the deterioration of recall memory—”the ability to spontaneously call information up in your mind”–in the age of the internet, research that has shown that the internet functions as a type of externalized memory, and binge reading in relation to our ability to remember the stories we’ve read.
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