Keith is not feeling well so there is no new episode this week. Please enjoy this news list in the meantime.
Here's the top literary news of the week:
- Three Organizations Partner to Develop Editoria, a New Open Source Digital-First Book Production Platform
- The darkness inside Canada's prisons
- Amazon Changes Its KDP Select Terms – Without Notice
- Prince made secret donation to support Louisville’s historic Western Branch Library in 2001
- The best starter graphic novels for YA readers
- Johan Marais shares the story behind recent python photoshoot
- Wellcome announces 2016 shortlist for £30,000 book prize
- Curtis Brown launches online novel-writing course
- Sandra Cisneros, Lauren Groff among authors coming to Fall for the Book
- ‘Reader, I Married Him’: The Unfeminist Reason We Love Charlotte Brontë
- John Green fights back against banning of Looking for Alaska
- Jason Proctor on why he loves big books
- Presidency to honour Marguerite Poland and Benedict Wallet Vilakazi with Orders of Ikhamanga
- Barnes & Noble’s Longtime Leader, Leonard Riggio, Is Stepping Down
- DU book calls Bhagat Singh a “revolutionary terrorist”, courts controversy
- Gurr to replace North at helm of Amazon
- Barnes & Noble will take over UConn bookstores
- Pears' app shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke award
- Presenting the 2016 FLF programme for your perusal.
- A Case Study on How to Build a Successful Indie Press
- LIBRARY APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR
- Cecelia Ahern: ‘public shaming moved me to write Flawed’ - Guardian children's books podcast
- Armchair Books says ‘the end’ after 34 years
- Amazon’s Cloud Business Lifts Its Profit to a Record
- Folio Prize Foundation to hold events
- 12 Cozy and Cute Bookshops for Independent Bookstore Day
- 35 Charming Canadian Bookstores You Need To Visit
- ALA #Readathon2016 Host a Reading Party
- Elisabeth Moss to star in TV adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
- Independent Bookstore Map
- Literary Hill Bookfest on May Day
- I Need Coffee: Schedule Your Writing Life
- Whit Channels Jane
- 10 Weird and Wonderful Words about Literature and Reading