Here is the top literary news of the week:
- Sony’s Trademark On The Frozen Wilds Has Been Foiled By A Mobile Slot Machine
- Digitized Rare Books: Library of Congress Introduces Rare Book and Special Collections Division Web Portal
- Amazon opens A Christmas Carol writing competition
- See the Most Luxurious Medieval Manuscripts in Existence
- THE DEFINITIVE WAY TO ORGANIZE YOUR BOOKS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
- Pablo Neruda: experts say official cause of death 'does not reflect reality'
- Belgium's Wallonia region votes for fixed book prices
- Conference Paper: “Crowdsourcing the Dewey Decimal Classification: When Users Become Contributors”
- Beloved alley bookseller’s regulars write a new chapter for the store
- THE PANIC READ: DOES IT REALLY MATTER IF YOU DON’T COMPLETE A READING CHALLENGE?
- How Conde Nast is making feature films and TV pay off
- Songbook From the 16th-Century Spells Out Samurai Customs, Tactics and Baby Names
- Early Digital Census results reveal growth in print and e-book sales
- Notes on the Art of Rhetoric
- Open Access: Stephen Hawking’s PhD Thesis Goes Online For First Time
- THE BEST INDIE BOOKSTORES IN WASHINGTON, DC
- New Transdermal Patches Use EINK for Automated Drug Delivery
- Rome’s rabbi gifts Talmud to Library of Congress
- Customer needs must drive change in academic publishing, says Napack
- Unseen Harper Lee letters give intimate view of To Kill a Mockingbird author
- YOU CAN EAT CHRISTMAS DINNER AT HOGWARTS
- Biloxi to teach ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ in class again. Parents must sign permission slip.
- China says Gui Minhai has been released. What does that mean?
- Russian Investigative Newspaper Says ‘No Choice’ But to Arm Staff After Radio Host Was Stabbed
- Russian bank collapse raises questions for Waterstones
- Cujo's Unexpected Lesson About Parenting and Art
- MEET THE SMALL NIGERIAN PRESS WITH ITS SIGHTS SET ON THE WORLD
- Behind Bars: 61 Poets Who Went To Jail
- O'Reilly dropped by literary agency
- HBO, Penguin cancel ‘Game Change’ over Halperin’s alleged sexual harassment
- NARA Releases Approx. 2800 JFK Assassination Records
- Bookselling Britain report reveals retailers’ challenges
- Elif Shafak joins Future Library, writing piece to be unveiled in 2114
- How a kid who didn’t read a book until he was 17 grew up to become a literary star
- THE LIBYAN BOOKSHOPS STAYING OPEN THROUGH CIVIL WAR
- The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
- Inclusive children's publisher Knights Of launches
- Children's book fair promises exciting new additions
- There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well.
- 6 FAMOUS WRITERS INJURED WHILE WRITING
- Is the Bible a True Story?
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