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LER

Livros. Notícias. Rumores. Apontamentos.

Ler, o poder da leitura, etc

Marjorie Garber, professora em Harvard, autora de Shakespeare acaba de publicar The Use and Abuse of Literature — e dá uma entrevista à The Atlantic:

«I think that the habit of reading is intensely pleasurable and it's also hard. The pleasure of it is partly the pleasure of detection, the pleasure of recognition, the pleasure of response. I think you can probably tell from the book that I'm very optimistic actually about the future of literature and literary reading—I'm far from despairing and I don't actually feel that there's a crisis. What we need is to continue to show the power of reading, the pleasure of reading—and, again, more people experience that than we are sometimes aware of.  Also the power of writing, which is an analogous pleasure and power.»

50%

A Other Press aumentou a percentagem de direitos de autor no livro digital, de 25 para para 50%. A média usada nos EUA é de 25%, embora a Random House tenha adoptado uma escala cumulativa que pode ir até aos 40%.