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HarperCollins, Hardie Grant become RHYW publisher partnersReadHowYouWant (RHYW), which produces special formats of books such as DAISY and large print, has announced that HarperCollins Australia and H...
Digital era creates 'a new literacy'
Against criticisms that the digital world is eroding students' writing skills, a new study argues that on the contrary we are in the midst of the flowering of 'a new literacy', where people are writin...
UK government to spend £18m on children's books
The UK government is to spend £18m providing free books for babies and toddlers over the next three years. The money will be spent on around 12 million volumes for children aged 0-3, to be hande...
Flanagan named national literacy ambassador
Author John Flanagan was announced as the 2009 National Literacy Ambassador during the current National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW), by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The a...
B&N adds lexile search
US book chain Barners & Noble will add lexile measures to its search facilities, to give parents a tool “that will help to take the guesswork out of selecting the ‘right’ books f...
Will kids drive e-book take-up?
This short piece from TeleRead suggests that children who aren't necessarily print book ('p-book') readers may well be the market sector that will drive the take-up of e-books.
National Reading Day for Literacy and Numeracy Week
As part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week which kicked off yesterday, National Reading Day also coincides with Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday). Schools that participate in Nationa...
Kids still read for fun, teens less so
A new report released by Scholastic in the US corroborates the findings of the company's 2006 report on children's reading habits, finding that pleasure reading in children begins to decline at age ei...
Dymocks continues to donate for literacy
Dymocks’s seven-year-old charity arm, the Dymocks Literacy Foundation, is to donate 2,652 books to ten pre-schools and special needs schools along the Gold Coast.Titles from Libby Gleeson, Antho...
Dymocks Literacy Foundation gets into the swing
Authors Matthew Reilly and Bradley Trevor Greive were among over 100 golf enthusiasts getting into the swing of things at the inaugural Dymocks Literacy Foundation Golf Day held last Thursday. All pro...
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