Here are some literary links for your perusal:

• Amazon continues to fail: After removing all Macmillan titles from its site, the company’s own stock fell nearly 6% yesterday
• Salty Ink is throwing caution to the wind and judging books by their covers “ from now until the end of the month, you can vote for the best Atlantic Canadian book cover
• Ricky Gervais reacts to the news that “flanimal rights” activists seem to have freed 12,000 copies of his new pop-up book
• Say hello to your old friends the Glass family: With new covers pre-approved by Salinger himself, Penguin will relaunch his backlist this June