Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Malorie Blackman: 'Othello was the first thing I read that actually featured a black character'
- Why everyone loves I Love Dick
- B&T, Bookmasters and POD Worldwide form partnership
- Zines & the power of self-publication
- New Data: Half a Billion Personal Records Stolen or Lost in 2015, Symantec Releases New Edition of Internet Security Threat Report
- Pulitzer Prize 2016 winners include Hamilton, Barbarian Days
- Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Copyright Challenge
- Follett buys Baker & Taylor
- N.L. set to become first province in Canada to tax books
- Pay with a poem: coffee for poetry deal spreads around the globe
- Report: Ohio Libraries Release “Return on Investment” Study
- Librarian of Congress: Carla Hayden’s Senate Confirmation Hearing
- Infographic: 14 amazing Shakespeare facts for #Shakespeare400
- London's Radical Book Fair to be held at Goldsmiths
- Love Comics? See This Year's Eisner Award Nominees
- George RR Martin: there are 8 million spin-off Game of Thrones stories
- Who said tablets are dead? Montreal daily La Presse's betting its future on them
- Graham Pechey obituary
- 10 Facts About Poets Laureate for National Poetry Month
- Gunn attacks Creative Scotland for 'politicizing literature'
- Five Fascinating Facts about the Brontë Sisters
- UConn To Sign $4 Million Agreement With Hartford Public Library
- Modern Feminists, in Their own words
- Watch the Darkly Fascinating Trailer for a Movie Version of The Girl on the Train
- How do I ... celebrate Shakespeare's anniversary?
- WE ASKED10 POETS FOR POEMS.10 DESIGNERSPUT THEM IN MOTION.
- Duke University Libraries Digitizes and Releases Digital Collection of Over 2700 Sermons Recorded at Duke University Chapel (1946-2002)
- Amazon on ‘charm offensive’ in Kindle subscription meetings
- Experimenting to Build the Right Ebook Pricing Strategy
- Amazon To Bring E-Books To NYC Public Schools Next Year
- Google Case Ends, but Copyright Fight Goes On
- 8 Reasons Why People Buy Books
- E-ink is Working on a Turnkey Solution for Secondary Smartphone Screens
- Who can we thank for Shakespeare's popularity?
- The British Library and Vodafone Launch “Interactive ‘Virtual Library’ Wallpaper Of Shakespeare’s Iconic Works”
- Three Organizations Partner to Develop Editoria, a New Open Source Digital-First Book Production Platform
- The darkness inside Canada's prisons
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