- Australia cuts $52.5-million in arts funding, shuttering national book council. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- U.K. librarians – supported by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and other authors – take to the streets to protest library closures. (The Guardian)
- Spanish-language publishers launch first program of its kind to print books on demand based on pre-sales. (Publishing Perspectives)
- Amazon picks up TV adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon from HBO, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead. (Melville House)
- CalLit cultivating CanLit: how Giller winner André Alexis found inspiration in Michael Ondaatje’s The Long Poem Anthology. (Independent)
- Comic book fans, you haven’t been forgotten: a list of the 10 biggest comic book news stories of 2015. (IGN)
- Malcolm Gladwell, the most notorious of book blurbers. (The New York Times)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens releases today. Here’s a list of the most ridiculous Star Wars books. (Los Angeles Times)
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