The best advice I’ve seen on this whole thing is to act like you have the virus even if you don’t. So stay in and isolate yourself from others for a few weeks until the system can cope with the cases already out there. So, here’s an extra long Today In How Corona Virus is Nailing the Book Industry Coffin Shut post to keep you busy at home (is there really anything else to talk about anyway?):
- Diary of an Italian editor;
- The poor, coffee-and-bookless people of France (let’s hope this virus doesn’t affect the French worlds of wine, cigarettes, and withering looks;
- World of books braces for future (thankfully, this is what the world of books has been dealing with for nearly 20 years — a scary future it neither understands, nor is prepared for);
- Delivery by skateboard: small bookstores trying anything to keep head above water;
- To wit: super-dedicated Hunter Street Books owner in Peterborough will hand deliver your books (sending my address, Michelle… I hear flights are cheap right now…);
- Dennis Johnson of Melville House is also trying to do some good for small bookstores;
- The first lines of classic works rewritten for pandemic;
- Quill collates cancelled events;
- I am critically too old to know of or remember Animorphs, but apparently you millennial types gobbled them like cookies back in the 90s… well, they’re all free at Scholastic (purveyor of fine plastic garbage, CDs, and dumbed down movie tie-in shit for kids via their formerly glorious catalogs);
- How kidlit authors are stepping up during the crisis;
- And yet, Canadian Children’s Book Week tour is cancelled;
- The Americans have some strong feelings on canceled vs cancelled;
- Celebrities are here to save the day by reading to your kids over the social medias;
- Canadian Heritage says its here to help orgs that are losing out because of covid-19;
- Canada Council has some advice as well;
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