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“Conrad has done a remarkable job as interim director and clearly understands the challenges and opportunities within the publishing industry,” said KU Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Carl Lejuez. “Through his prior experience as the business manager at UPK, he’s helped the entity remain valuable through a time of dramatic change in the publication of content as well as in wholesale and retail markets. It will be fascinating to see how he guides UPK for the years to come.”

When I think about all the books I read in 2018, the one that stands out the most is Educated, a memoir by Tara Westover. The book tells the unforgettable true story of Westover’s life growing up in rural Idaho as a daughter of survivalists, who prepared for the end of the world and shunned official entities like the government, hospitals, and schools.

Though it has published recipes in print since the mid-1800s, the New York Times didn’t launch its online cooking section until 2014, when it merged its dining sections into an umbrella section called Food. Last year, the newspaper put its recipes behind a paywall. Even as the New York Times’ Cooking section builds out its collection of recipes, there is still very much an audience for the printed cookbook. And that’s a great thing.

“We’re both big kids at heart. What we’ll do on our book tour will be fun for fans,” said Jonathan, who added that he and his brother will read “Builder Brothers” with their fans.

But even more importantly…eBooks are for more beneficial to the publisher than to the authors. Publisher and author used to split these royalties and with eBooks it is not so. Things have gotten complicated. Ask any author and they will beg you to stick with paper books. They get more royalties from them. There are quite a few articles about the benefit to authors for print books versus eBooks you can find around the interwebs….but basically “the house always wins.”

But if all the space ventures that got underway in 2018 are as successful as hoped, we’ll be looking back on this year in 2028 and 2068 and celebrating more historic anniversaries. 

Creating Dreamers has been healing, she says. It has brought back that special time when she and her son were exploring a new world with a new language and traditions together. She hopes it will show children the magical dance that takes place when newcomers mix their hopes, dreams and ideas with a strange, unfamiliar landscape to create something that could have only come out of the immigrant experience. Something much like Morales’ extraordinary body of work. 

“Young people are still learning how they like to read,” Mr. Green said. “It is much closer to a cellphone experience than standard books, but it’s much closer to a book than a cellphone. The whole problem with reading on a phone is that my phone also does so many other things.”

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In January, when Saira Rao, a political unknown, decided to challenge an 11-term Democratic incumbent in a Congressional primary in Colorado, her campaign material mentioned her career as a lawyer — briefly. More important, in her view, was her role as an author and children’s book producer: Ms. Rao co-founded In This Together Media, which specializes in children’s and young adult books by diverse authors and with diverse protagonists. Congress, she said, “looks an awful lot like the characters in kids’ books: overwhelmingly white and male,” and she was out to change that.

How fortunate are we to live close to the little fishing village of Ballycotton in East Cork. Everyone loves fish pie, the combination depends on the fish catch. Omit mussels and shrimps if they are not available.

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