Cracks in the (UK’s) Publishing Industry’s Armor…

There are some signs that the publishing industry is slowly beginning to get one foot out of the 19th century and into the 21st century. In an item under the headline “Fiction for Free from Penguin”, theBookseller.com reports:
Penguin is to offer free downloads of the first chapter of every fiction title it publishes.The publisher has [...]

More great literacy links..

A blog by an Instructional Technology training specialist at Georgia State University’s College of Education:
http://anne.teachesme.com/
“Guysread” is  a web-based literacy program to help boys find stuff they like to read. It was created by Jon Scieszka, who was recently appointed to be the Inaugural National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, by the United States Library of [...]