It’s one of those modern situations that no one in publishing ever imagined: Being at odds with librarians, the ultimate champions of literacy and literature. But that’s been the situation as publishers have tried to figure out how, exactly, to handle selling ebooks to libraries.… 2 / Read more »
In Homer’s Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home at last to Ithaca, his faithful dog Argos struggles to greet him. There the dog Argos lay in the dung, all covered with dog ticks. Now, as he perceived that Odysseus had come close to him, he wagged… Read more »
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