This week: the Man Booker prize celebrates 50 years, a French bookseller is reproducing classical manuscripts, Leisure reading is declining in the U.S., Barnes and Noble fires their CEO, a lost message from King Charles I is found, a bookstore says goodbye and makes donations to an animal shelter, and the EU votes down copyright reforms All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJune 30, 2018
Here is the top literary news of the week:
- UPS Strike Off, Comic Stores Spared Disruption
- Inside stories: Turkey’s grim tradition of publishing behind bars
- Nova's debut collection scoops the CLiPPA award
- Recording Audiobooks For My Dad, Stephen King
- Donald Hall, former US poet laureate and bard of New Hampshire’s Eagle Pond, dies at 89
- Jimmy Fallon Launches First-Ever 'Tonight Show' Book Club
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Award renamed after racism concerns
- OCLC awarded Mellon Foundation grant to register library retention commitments for print serials in WorldCat
- I REJECT YOUR ASTERISKS, AND YOUR DINKUS, TOO
- How Vogue diversified away from Facebook
- CHECK OUT THE 2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNERS!
- Rapper 'Loki' takes the Orwell prize for 'heart-rending' poverty tale
- Akron-Summit County Library, MIT Media Lab partner to build food computer
- $1.125 million gift to UH Mānoa library to support world, renowned collections
- WRITING WITH AND THROUGH PAIN
- Oakland’s Laurel Book Store to close
- Red Hen Press, an independent publisher based in Los Angeles, has spent days refusing to carry food to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- JetBlue is giving away money for libraries again
- WATCH THE FULL TRAILER FOR THE HATE U GIVE
- TO PIZZA HUT’S BOOK IT! PROGRAM: A FOND LOVE LETTER
- Libraries’ decision to hide children’s books with LGBT content challenged in Hong Kong court
- SURVIVING THE ANXIETY OF PUBLISHING A BOOK BY DRAWING ABOUT IT
- FIRST LOOK: A Discovery Of Witches - Coming Soon
- ALCS survey finds 15% drop in average author earnings since 2013
- Publishers are paying writers a pittance, say bestselling authors
- Boise approves draft budget with $69M in library funding
- Stanford Libraries awarded $4 Million grant to implement linked data metadata environment
- THE BIG HIGHS AND DEEP LOWS OF OPENING AN INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE
- 10 Bookshops You Must Visit If You Call Yourself A Book Lover
- An Anthony Bourdain Biography Will Be Published in 2019
- PRH India buys 'cultural icon' Hind Pocket Books
- Harlan Ellison obituary
- Laurentian University librarians and archivists worried about budget cuts
- ‘SOME PEOPLE ONLY KNOW FEMINIST BOOKSTORES FROM PORTLANDIA.’
- IBW 'raised the bar' but publishers 'could do more'
- Why newspapers aren’t keen on publishing poems from readers
- Amazon Seeks to Improve Deliveries to Israel, but Not Planning to Open Logistics Center
- Vida de los libros
- BEYOND BEACH READS: HOW TO PICK THE BEST SUMMER BOOKS
- Orioles pay tribute to Capital Gazette victims with pregame moment of silence
- ARL Celebrates United States’ Ratification of Marrakesh Treaty
June 23, 2018
This week: an author is trying to trademark “Dragon Slayer,” the inaugural Excellence in Graphic Lit Awards were handed out, Sarah Jessica Parker has a book imprint, the Carnegie medal winner has a problem with children’s book vocabulary, the Oxford English Dictionary is searching the globe for new words, a long lost series of typefaces are being reborn, and the EU is moving toward Copyright reform, but at what cost? All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJune 16, 2018
This week: a new record is set at the Unbound crowdfunding site, a Portland feminist bookstore is closing, Amazon shut down a Kindle Unlimited abuser, Europe may change what you see online, universities are cancelling subscriptions with big publishers, a newspaper fires their cartoonist for criticizing President Trump, and a journalist is killed in an ambush on Kashmir. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreJune 9, 2018
Here is the top literary news of the week:
- This is the world's best bookstore and it's in Uppsala, Sweden
- A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops
- Read extracts from the Women's Prize 2018 shortlist
- Afua Richardson’s Name in Lights at Book Expo with ‘Run’, Sequel to John Lewis’s ‘March’
- NLM Homepage Redesign
- Want to Read Michael Lewis’s Next Work? You’ll Be Able to Listen to It First
- Ambulances called out to Amazon warehouses 600 times
- HighWire, Hypothesis, and the American Diabetes Association Announce Annotation for Key Publication
- How does the literary canon reinforce the logic of the incel?
- Why are middle-aged women invisible on book covers?
- Michael Jackson’s estate sues Disney, ABC over TV special
- Introducing 2018’s Digiday Changemakers, honoring those modernizing media and marketing
- 'Ambitious' account of English Reformation wins Wolfson History Prize
- How the Obsidian Collection Is Bringing Black Newspapers to Google
- Copy Machines in Libraries Are ‘Going the Way of the Dodo’—Slowly
- PAUL BEATTY ON LOS ANGELES LIT, THE SELLOUT, AND LIFE AFTER THE MAN BOOKER
- 9 Weird Literary Relics People Spent Serious Money On
- Read a book — it could save your sanity
- Judge Denies Author Attempt to Trademark 'Cocky'
- Unbound crowdfunding record smashed by gamer Dan NerdCubed
- Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project
- Curb book theft without killing firms
- 20 NOTORIOUSLY UNDERRATED WRITERS YOU SHOULD BE READING
- Bill Clinton and James Patterson's book tour is off to a rocky start
- Students crowdfund to launch writing anthology
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'experimental' new book due in time for 100th birthday
- Donald Glover Reportedly On Shortlist To Star As Willy Wonka In New Film For Warner Bros.
- SAOA to Digitize Indian Newspaper Reports for Open Access
- Trustworthy technology: the future of digital archives
- HOW COOKING FREES MY MIND TO THINK ABOUT WRITING
- Bill Gates gives a book to every US student graduating in 2018
- Wright, Vunipola and Fallon pick up Sports Book awards
- On Gwendolyn Brooks' birthday, a statue of the powerful poet will be unveiled on the South Side
- EBSCO Information Services and the Five Colleges Consortium Announce EBSCO FOLIO Beta Partnership
- CORE becomes the world’s largest aggregator
- LITERARY CLASSICS RETOLD AS TWO-PANEL COMICS
- LANGUAGE AS HOMELAND, IDENTITY, AND NORMALITY
- Netizen Report: In another blow for free speech, Egypt’s parliament passes cybercrime law
- Holocaust Survivor Who Comforted Anne Frank in Concentration Camp Dies at 95
- South Korean apps are outsourcing academic fraud to freelance ghostwriters
- NYU Receives $500,000 Grant to Support Arabic Collections Online
- 20 escritoras injustamente olvidadas
- Authors Guild Opens Channel for Authors’ Complaints with Amazon
June 2, 2018
This week: the LA Times website goes dark in Europe, the Nobel Prize in Literature might not return in 2019, there’s someone to fear in the copyright infringement game, a Russian journalist was killed (or not), a Baltimore museum closes and joins the Library of Congress, the author of Fight Club is broke, and the Rebel Girls radical children’s book is announced. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMay 26, 2018
This week: a scholar has uncovered surprising news on the King James Bible, Publishers are having a good year so far according to sales figures, Google may no longer condemn evil, Philip Roth died at age 85, a Judge has blocked President Trump from cutting off dissent on Twitter, U.S. Public Schools are lacking in Librarians, and Tunisian Journalists face a possible new law that will curtail coverage. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMay 19, 2018
This week: a Texas library can’t collect on $11 million in fines, Indie bookstores are embracing romance, Heart Magazines launches a data studio, the British Book Awards are announced, the U.S. Senate votes on Net Neutrality, there’s nothing to laugh about in comic fiction this year, and artwork by Edward Munch is now free for all. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMay 11, 2018
This week: Open Access is looking past publishers, Seattle and Amazon collide, the New York Times debuts a new web story format, Ian McEwan can’t help you get a good grade, the word ‘cocky’ has been trademarked, Vermont Life magazine is shutting down, and storytelling lives on online. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMay 5, 2018
This week: The Smithsonian has a robot that speaks Swahili, Federal Prisons are making it harder for prisoners to get books, Freelancers win big in court, Fake books are being used to launder money, the Anna Dewdney prize was handed out, there won’t be a Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and another author is accused of sexual misconduct. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreApril 28, 2018
This week: Hear the tale of the Biblioburro of Colombia, a major publisher gave back with a company-wide day of volunteering, a major city newspaper left their front page blank on Monday, the new book by James Comey is doing even better than recent political blockbusters, a new study shows a shocking gap between men and women authors, George RR Martin has a new book out this year (no, not that one), and there may not be a Nobel Prize for Literature this year. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreApril 21, 2018
This week: Comics Legend Stan Lee is fighting back against apparent elder abuse, turmoil continues to roil the Swedish Academy, the Pulitzer Prizes were handed out, the Financial Times is adapting their subscription model for their audience, Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has signed a book deal, Macmillan is planning ahead for the new book by former FBI head James Comes, and Canadian students took part in a national poetry competition. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreApril 14, 2018
This week: Three members quit the Swedish Academy over sexual assault allegations, the top feminist book is going out of print, a major magazine publisher lost key parts of its digital staff, an Oklahoma student uses the same textbook a country star used 36 years ago, JRR Tolkien's son releases a new book by the late author, the story of four teenagers robbing a library was made into a movie, and China shuts down access to a popular humor app. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreApril 7, 2018
This week: the estate of a deceased author is trying to trademark one of his titles, the Fire and Fury TV adaptation has a director, the Hugo Award Nominees were announced, A Gentleman in Moscow has a star, a publisher is banking on the Obamas having a big year in sales, celebrity bookclubs are getting more people to read, and a journalist was killed in the Gaza strip by Israeli forces. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMarch 31, 2018
This week: Another award has been taken away from Sherman Alexie, Religious publishing is on the rise, the US Poet Laureate has been given a second term, Senator John McCain is attacking President Trump in a new book, the Ted Hughes Award was handed out, President Trump attacked Amazon by tweet, and UNESCO has launched a database to help expert women get on the news. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMarch 24, 2018
This week: a never-ending poem has literally hit the streets, the former FBI director’s memory is soaring in sales a month before it’s released, John Oliver has released a book to counter a children’s book by the Vice President’s daughter, Don Quixote is being used to fight a Spanish court ruling, Sylvia Plath’s typewriter was sold at auction, photographer Bill Cunningham has a secret memoir, and JRR Tolkien’s artwork goes on display. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMarch 17, 2018
This week: the comics industry is concerned for Stan Lee, Sherman Alexie has turned down an award in light of sexual allegations, Apple has bought the e-magazine service Texture, the comics and publishing industry reacts to the death of Stephen Hawking, the estate of Harper Lee has sued the Broadway adaptation of her book, an indie publisher is offering a free eBook because of the new CIA nominee, and Tunisia censors two online games. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMarch 10, 2018
This week: Dolly Parton read to children at the Library of Congress, a 1990’s history book is causing trouble in the church, Heart Newspapers are getting creative with paywalls, Washington state brings back net neutrality, will Florida arm Librarians?, George R.R. Martin quits blogging, and a Russian deputy is accused by multiple journalists. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreMarch 3, 2018
This week: a fantasy author has caused a backlash on social media, Michelle Obama has announced her memoir release, are online subscriptions due to fall?, Harper Lee’s will is unsealed, Librarians are fighting the opioid crisis, China has banned Winnie the Pooh, and some literary treasures have been discover in Australia. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2018
This week: a new comic book store has opened, Mary Shelley’s original notebooks are being released, a new study found an interesting change in women’s portrayals in novels, a prisoner may have to pay the state for his incarceration after getting a book deal, the PEN/America awards were handed out, a new eBook and Audiobook service has been launched, and the internet laughs at a country’s attempt to limit internet use.. All this, plus the New York Times Bestsellers, the Amazon Charts, and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
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