September 15, 2018

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Battle over EU copyright law heads for showdown

• Russian State Libraries’ Consolidation Program Moves Forward Amid Staff Shakeups

• 7 Unique Bookstores in the U.S.

• On the jungle trail: revisiting Kipling's children's classic

• Comics Folk Remember Terry Wiley

• GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL

• Joseph-Beth Booksellers president/CEO loses job. Store future is unknown.

• Dutchman wins Welsh bookshop in raffle draw

• WHAT YOUR NEW ROOMMATE’S FAVORITE BOOK SAYS ABOUT THEM

• To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library

• How The Atlantic, LA Times and others are staffing up

• New Galena Digital Library opens in Floyd County, Indiana

• Six indies win Pan Mac's innovation competition

• The Wonky Donkey: viral video of grandmother makes picture book a bestseller

• Florence’s leading English bookstore for sale

• Headley and Hamdy to launch London crime and thriller festival

• Some words sound lovelier than others—and learning a new language can teach you why

• Seven Cornell University projects awarded 2018 digitization grants

• 'Gestures of sharing and love' … the mini libraries giving books to the community

• Time Inc. Buyer Meredith Cuts 200 Jobs as It Merges Magazines

• Woodward book breaks 93-year publishing record

• Trade bodies welcome European Parliament’s vote for draft copyright directive

• Freedom of Information Archive Receives Two-Year Grant from Arcadia

• DO YOU REALLY NEED A DEGREE TO BE A LIBRARIAN?

• European Parliament Approves Catastrophic Copyright Bill That Threatens the Internet

• Patterson donates £50,000 to UK school libraries

• Eudora Welty gets first marker on Mississippi writers trail

• Penn State's Pattee Library renovation to expand student study, collaboration spaces

• The Adventures of America’s Most Well-Traveled Bookstore

• Why you should read this article slowly

• After the Storm: On the Artist’s Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

• French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon

• Granta shutters Portobello imprint

• The board of a West Virginia library reverses decision to refuse ‘Fear’

• The two biggest threats to academic freedom have come together in China

• Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum

• Matilda’s new adventures at 30: astrophysicist, explorer or bookworm

• Malawian diplomat and poet David Rubadiri dies

• Can Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Co-Exist with an Open Internet?

• New study finds fiction reading down, poetry up

• Publishers Call Out Target for 'Censoring' Book Descriptions

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