Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Canada: The Royal Ontario Museum Launches Digital Collection Online
- Dolly Parton launches nursery reading programme
- NYCC 2017: Thank The CIA For Amazon’s Jack Ryan Series
- David Whittaker obituary
- A TALE OF TWO SYLVIAS: ON THE LETTERS COVER CONTROVERSY
- How South Africans now learn French as an “African” language
- Mika Brzezinski Says She'll Drop Weinstein Book Deal if Harvey Weinstein Doesn't Resign
- RIPPED BODICE’S RACIAL DIVERSITY IN ROMANCE REPORT REVEALS GRIM NUMBERS
- Over 1,000 venues participate in first Libraries Week
- New Report: “A Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding And Publishing In Eight European Countries”
- In Defense of Autodidacticism
- How Amazon reviews became the new battlefield of US politics
- Social-media 'evangelist' named school librarian of the year
- University of Calgary Awarded $1.5M Mellon Foundation For Research Into Media Preservation
- Chandler estate goes to RCW and The Agency
- A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR BIBLIOPHILES
- The truth is most marketers are OK with the duopoly
- More Books Please! A “Little Known” Provision in U.S. Copyright Law Allows Internet Archive to
- Digitize and Make Available Thousands of Books From 1923-1941
- Here Are The 2017 MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners
- Wylie blasts 'bewildering' global publishing
- ‘Don’t patronise teenagers – we're more than capable of enjoying classic literature’
- Opinion: Now rescue N.Y.'s library branches
- MY FAVORITE BOOKS TO SELL OVER 20 YEARS OF OWNING A BOOKSTORE
- LEVAR BURTON READS ‘GOODNIGHT MOON’ TO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
- Dan Brown's Origin makes a strong start in UK bookshops
- Charkin to lead Bloomsbury China
- MAN TEMPORARILY BANNED FROM LIBRARY FOR HIDING LGBTQ DVDS
- An Open Access Publishing Milestone in the Netherlands
- HERBERT HOOVER, FRUSTRATED PLAYWRIGHT
- Library of Mistakes
- Why The New York Times and other publishers are adding experiential marketing services
- Video Report: “Small Collections Library at University of Virginia Archiving Events of August 12 Relics”
- Denise Mina wins Gordon Burn Prize
- Facebook is hiring more people to moderate content than Twitter has at its entire company
- WHY THOUGHT BUBBLE MIGHT BE THE BEST PLACE TO BE A COMICS FAN
- A SELECTION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MOST SAVAGE INSULTS
- How I Finished My Novel by Moving to Berlin, Playing Pokémon Go, and Walking a Dog Named Lenny
- Blogger Summoned for Police Questioning Over Soviet Children’s Book
- BLP's Tolkien tome lures overseas interest
- School district pulls 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from reading list; 'makes people uncomfortable'
- Urban Library Council Announces 2017 Top Innovators
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