Here is the news of the week:
- Sheffield Poem-a-Thon raises over £14,000 for refugee charity
- White Poets Want Chinese Culture Without Chinese People
- The Curious Incident of the Book in the Digital Age
- A Perfect Partnership: How Print and Ebooks are Inspiring Young Readers in Africa
- WNDB INTERNSHIP GRANT
- Pullman urges publishers to examine their role
- Calvin Trillin’s New Yorker Poem Wasn’t Just Offensive. It Was Bad Satire.
- LBF 2016 opens with deal deluge
- Book scheme to help teenagers with mental health issues
- The books Americans want removed from libraries
- HQ Pilgrim progresses
- New edition - London Review of Books
- A collection of books confiscated during World War II is the subject of exhibitions and ongoing research
- FIVE MISSISSIPPI WRITERS ON WHY THEY OPPOSE THEIR STATE’S NEW ANTI-LGBTQ “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” LAW
- 19 Useful Phrases To Describe How You Achieved Your Word Count
- Calling young poets: be part of Dylan Thomas's Great Poem
- Kindle Oasis From Amazon Promises ‘Months and Months’ of Battery Life
- 'Middle-aged most prolific e-readers' says Kob
- 'Exhilarating' Man Booker International shortlist spans the world
- ALA, Google launch “Libraries Ready to Code”
- Infographic: BookNet Canada reveals top fiction, nonfiction books of 2015
- BBC Worldwide invests in Curtis Brown parent company
- Jokes About Erdogan Aren't Funny in Germany
- New Terry Pratchett publishing revealed at memorial
- Tennessee Governor Vetoes Bill Making the Bible State’s Official Book
- Shoplifter returns stolen book after 2 years with apology note, says they had a guilty conscience
- I Didn’t Know I Was Transgender
- Interesting Facts about Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
- Ganxy Announces New Bulk Ebook Sales Feature
- What we talk about when we talk about books
- Reading in Public Is Not an Invitation for Conversation
- 3 Cent Per Year Tax Hike For Five Years Proposed to Stabilize Cedar Rapids Public Library
- Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: ‘At the Existentialist Café’
- Sensitivity Reader Database
- Panel Discusses Challenges for Women in Publishing
- 7 Gorgeous New Libraries Show Us The Future Of Book-Lending
- 11 do's and don'ts for writing great poetry
- LIBRARIES WORTH TRAVELING THE WORLD TO SEE AND MORE CRITICAL LINKING
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