- Project Gutenberg digitizes its 50,000th book, blowing Johannes’s mind from beyond the grave. (Project Gutenberg News)
- The ’80s are alive in Iran as the country threatens to boycott Frankfurt book fair over scheduled appearance by Salman Rushdie. (The Guardian)
- A literary agency’s uncertain future following the death of its founder. (The New York Times)
- Tilting at windmills has lead to success for Windsor, Ontario–based press Biblioasis. (The Globe and Mail)
- Come back, Pamela Sue Martin! CBS is planning a gritty Nancy Drew procedural series you didn’t know you wanted. (Deadline)
- Better a witty novel than a foolish play: authors reimagine and adapt some of Shakespeare’s best – and most baffling – plays. (The New York Times)
- The New York Times, continuing to buck trends in newspaper readership, reaches one-million digital subscribers. (Good e-Reader)
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