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Paul Heald If you're looking to read a best-selling book from 1922 or earlier on your Kindle, you're in luck. Just about all popular books published between 1913 and 1922 (94 percent, to be exact) are available today as ebooks, often for free. But for books published 1923 and later, the picture is dramatically different.
Just 27 percent of 167 bestsellers published between 1923 and 1932 are available in authorized digital formats. Why? But here's the thing: A new study by the University of Illinois' Paul J. Using a database of popular songs from 1913 to 1932 with unique names (to keep the data neat), Heald found that the vast majority of songs were available on iTunes, regardless which year they were from, "most of them with recordings from multiple artists. " The picture was similar on YouTube, where 70 percent of the public-domain songs he looked at were available compared with 77 percent of the copyrighted ones.
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As a self-described nonreader, Matt de la Peña could never have imagined as a kid that books would play an important role in his life. But key encounters with libraries and, more importantly, librarians, who actively sought to engage him, helped open a new world to de la Peña. The author of novels for young adults, including Ball Don’t Lie, Mexican Whiteboy (both Delacorte) and the upcoming Infinity Ring Book 4: Curse of the Ancients (Scholastic), de la Peña recounted his “path to books” in the closing keynote of SLJ‘s Public Library Leadership Think Tank, held April 5 at the New York Public Library.
In a presentation (audio below) that was alternately funny and moving, de la Peña clued in the audience of mostly public librarians and library administrators on, among other things, how to suck back a tear. But to no avail for some: Well, an actual tear just exited my eye after that amazing story, so, well-played, Matt de la Pena!
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