Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Unbound crowdfunding record smashed by gamer Dan NerdCubed
- INTRODUCING PRIMARILY WASHINGTON, A NEW EDUCATION RESOURCE
- Isaiah Mustafa Rounds Out the Cast of It: Chapter 2
- Increase Your Cognitive Ability By Reading A Fucking Book For Once
- Portland feminist bookstore In Other Words is closing
- Can Barnes & Noble Survive?
- Vintage launches prize for individual Independent Bookseller of the Year
- Community Writing Sites Draw Hollywood Attention
- Soft Fiction Sales Continue Into June
- New Research Report: “Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data”
- HOW LA BECAME A DESTINATION ON THE RARE BOOK TRAIL
- Notorious Kindle Unlimited abuser has been booted from the bookstore
- The pivot to paid leads to talent squeeze at publishers
- D H Lawrence 'treasures' bought by University of Nottingham
- New Grateful Dead Archive exhibit opens at McHenry Library
- Seven news organizations protest Facebook’s issue ads policy
- Copyright law could put end to net memes
- BA's Bottomley urges parliamentarians to support 'heroic' bookshops
- POETRY IS MORE POPULAR THAN EVER, NEW NEA RESEARCH SHOWS
- Infographic: The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2017
- Multnomah County Library cranks up Library Music Project
- THE BEST WRITING IN MEMORIAM OF ANTHONY BOURDAIN
- Another One Bites the Dust: Florida State University backs away from “Big Deal” subscription packages
- North American Universities Increasingly Cancel Publisher Packages
- McCormack’s Solar Bones wins €100k Dublin International Literary Award
- Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600
- Best Novels of 2018 So Far
- Dealing with a Little Free Library Book Thief: a North Chicago Case Study
- SAYAKA MURATA’S LOVE LETTER TO A CONVENIENCE STORE
- I, for one, welcome our New Apple Book overlords
- In Pittsburgh, an unprecedented blow to editorial cartoonist
- Towles, McCaughrean, Davies and Sutton win at IBW Book Awards
- KICKSTART THIS! LEGO LIBRARY
- WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING…YOUR FIRST BOOK
- Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari shot dead
- Acquittal Overturned, Gulag Historian Faces Second Trial
- 11 Centuries After the Murder of a Poet, Afghan Women Are Fighting for the Right to Write
- Sergeant Bluff opens first official public library
- Rules for scribes
- I’m Not Here to Play the Suffering Minority for White Readers
- TO BE MORE CREATIVE, EMBRACE THE ART OF DOING NOTHING
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