“Google is on the verge of completing a deal with the American Booksellers Association, the trade group for independent bookstores, to make Google Editions the primary source of e-books on the Web sites of hundreds of independent booksellers around the country, according to representatives of Google and the association.”
Tag: 06.30.10
Harlem Stage Saves Itself By Growing
“Artistic success has never been Harlem Stage’s problem. … But financially, the group, incorporated as a nonprofit in 1983, sometimes struggled. By the end of the 2009 season, its accumulated deficit stood at $737,000.” Rejecting advice to scale back, the organization’s director cut her budget but expanded programming, fundraising and artistic partnerships. It all worked.
Seattle Symphony’s Next Music Director: Ludovic Morlot
“It’s official: The Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s baton will be passed to a 36-year-old French maestro, Ludovic Morlot, when Gerard Schwarz steps down from the music directorship a year from now.”
Dave Eggers Exports His Radical Approach To Child Literacy
Named after its address in the Mission district of the city and guilefully hidden behind a Pirate Supply Store shopfront, “826 Valencia” helps students aged from eight to 18 to develop writing skills in informal workshops. By seducing young patrons with pirate parrots and peg legs, it removed the stigma associated with extra literacy lessons.