Rotarians send books to help Kenyan students (Lake Zurich Courier)

Local Rotarians saw the demand of textbooks in Kenyan schools after a September service project there, and are now working to ship as many books to Kenya as there are people in Lake Zurich. Rotary Club of Lake Zurich member Ron Roberti and Barrington Noon Rotary Club member Larry Barnett are working with Wauconda-based non-profit Bookfriends International to ship 20,000 used textbooks.

Life Source Church in Caldwell collects books for children in need (The Progress)

CALDWELL â€" Life Source Church, 6 Washburn Place, is collecting used children’s books for the Bridge of Books Foundation until Sunday, March 28.

Most Park Slope Parents Pay Their Nannies Off The Books (Gothamist)

More than 85 percent of Park Slope families pay their the domestic help under the table. According to the Brooklyn Paper and a Park Slope Parents study [ PDF ], 58 percent of parents who pay their nannies off the books say they think that nannies prefer it that way. But nanny Deborah Manwaring claims that's not necessarily the case: "I don't bring up taxes because they might fire me. With the ...

Free School Uniforms, Exercise Books Reach Tamale (Ghanaweb.com)

Government has announced a package of 2,692, 569 school uniforms and 73, 378 exercise books for free distribution to basic school pupils in the Northern region.

Exhibit Your Books at Tucson Festival of Books (PitchEngine)

ABPA will be exhibiting and selling member books at the Tucson Festival of Books, March 13-14, 2010, on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. More than 50,000 book lovers are expected to attend. ABPA members are invited to display their titles or schedule an author for a signing time.Cost to display a book is only 35 per title and you may send 5-10 copies of the book you want to sell ...

Cautionary cat tales and other books backed by politicos (The Grand Rapids Press)

Politicians list their favorite children's books. Do you and pols share beloved stories?

Local school districts eye getting digital books (Lincolnshire Review)

Someday, when you are telling your grandchildren about how hard you had it when you were younger, you won't have to make up stories about walking to school, in the snow, uphill both ways and all that. Just tell them you had to carry textbooks in your backpack. It is entirely possible that a generation from now, students primarily will be reading digital books on "e-readers".

Malaysia's 'bad' books sent into literary limbo (Asia Times)

KUALA LUMPUR - The confiscation of books by Malaysian authorities is raising concern and demands in some quarters for the repeal of laws that allow the government to suppress freedom of expression.

Amazon Kindle E-Books Expand Reach (seattlepi.com)

Seattle-based Amazon.com announced today that its Kindle Digital Text Platform can now be used by authors and publishers to upload their electronic books in Spanish, Portuguese, and European to the Kindle Store. The assist is already available for English, French, and German books. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) also said yesterday that its Kindle application is now ...