Audible’s New Cheaper Subscription Plan
Amazon’s Audible subscription plan currently has credits for downloading audiobooks plus access to their Audible Plus Catalog, which includes podcasts and Audible Originals. Now they’re offering a new cheaper plan, sans the audiobook credit, that offers access to their exclusive audio content–like their celebrity audio narratives and podcasts. The current Audible Gold and Platinum plans are also getting consolidated.
Brooklyn Book Festival Goes Virtual (Now We Can All Attend)
No lines, nor having to pick between two events running at the same time: this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival has gone virtual and free. From an entire day dedicated to YA, reading from canoes, author readings, Carousel Comics graphic night and much more the event will take place September 28th-October 5th virtually for its 15th year.
Celebrate 700 Years Of Libraries In Oxford, UK
And another free virtual event: September 16th-18th, 700 Years of Libraries in Oxford, UK will be celebrated with a conference that will look at the role libraries have played and will continue to play in our society. Speakers will include National Librarian of Ireland and University Librarian, National Library of Lesotho along with media, science, and communication specialists and academics from the world of libraries and archives.
It’s Environmental Lit Day!
We humans are just one small piece of a great big world, one that we’re fighting to save, so today we’re celebrating environmental lit across genres.