The Lerner Blog

Hey everybody! You’re in luck, I have some extra special internet links for you this week. Enjoy! Brain Hive Goes Live: On-Demand Ebook Service Rolls Out to K–12 Schools [TheDigitalShift] Apps, Books & Coffee: The Media Pricing Debate [TeleRead] 22 tools and apps every journalism student should know about [journalism.co.uk] Portable Documents for the Open […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 8/21"

Have you joined the BYOD conversation? The bring your own device (to work) movement is a trend that has been bubbling along for the last few years as a result of the so-called consumerization of information technology. You know, the fact that the average Jane and John Doe carry an iPhone, Android device, or tablet […]Read more "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)"

Congratulations to Wagnerslp! You are the the winner of Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead! Please send an email with your mailing address to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com and we will get your book in the mail for you! This week we want to make sure your classroom, library, or bookshelf is fully stocked for the start of […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Graphic Universe would like to share some sad news: Joe Kubert, one the last great American comic book artists of his era, passed away on Sunday, August 12. He was 85. Kubert, who co-founded the internationally recognized The Kubert School, also created the DC Comics icon “Sgt. Rock” and illustrated a host of other notable […]Read more "Towering Comic Book Figure, Joe Kubert, Dies at 85"

Shenanigans occurred on the internet over the weekend, and LendInk.com has been taken down as a result. A large number of indi authors were up in arms over perceived copyright violations allegedly perpetrated by LendInk.com. Unfortunately, the authors did not seem to understand that their contracts with B&N and Amazon allow for their books to […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 8/14"

I’ve been thinking about athletics recently—but not those of the Olympic variety. I’ve been thinking about mountain climbing. Hey, wouldn’t it be wild if the Olympics had a mountain climbing event? Of course, the Games might need to take place in the Himalayas for that to work . . . The real reason I’ve had […]Read more "A Different Kind of Athletic Triumph"

TGIF and happy Free Book Friday! Congratulations to @GeoLibrarian who is the winner of A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return! This week, Free Book Friday is getting a little disgusting! We are giving away the disturbingly terrific new book from award-winning author Rebecca L. Johnson, Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead. Are zombies […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

Part of my weekend and the first few days of this week were spent with my young nieces and their parents, who were visiting us in Minnesota. They live in South Dakota, where the girls will be returning to school next week. We did some back-to-school shopping for supplies, gym shoes, new book bags, and […]Read more "An Inspiring Group of Visitors"

So I just finished Elizabeth Wein’s masterpiece Code Name Verity. I have nothing to add to the richly deserved praise already heaped on this book. I enjoyed it so much that I cannot muster my normal critical faculties to answer the question I almost always ask: “how is this a YA novel?” I trust it’s […]Read more "Of codes and canons"