• Charlie Hebdo has released its . A five-million print run for a magazine that normally distributes 60,000 copies—the best possible tribute to free speech.
• Tips for writing . All fine and good, except for the stuff about abstinence. By the way, if you haven’t read (shown, right), it’s got even more tips.
• Library are on the rise.
• Turns out, The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven . Well, duh. Tyndale House fell for it, Condé Nast didn’t.
• Macmillan has joined HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster by with Oyster and Scribd. The subscription trend is like a river current: it can’t be reversed.
• From the You’ve-Got-To-Be-Kidding-Me department: Oxford University Press bans to avoid offending Muslims and Jews.
• Madeline McIntosh, president of the Penguin Publishing Group, has . Some lucky business card printer is going to burn the midnight oil.
• The , U.S. vs U.K. I think it’s a tie.
• Illustrated will be released over the next 7 years. It will take at least that long for the new look to catch on.
• Gotta love Neil Gaiman. There ought to be a prize for .
• The —according to everyone. I dunno. A meta survey is only as good as its individual ingredients.
• NYC is coming out with an . We think this is good. Even better is that is also serves as a library card.
• Rupert Murdoch held all Muslims responsible for jihadi attacks. JK Rowling .
• More . Will they never learn?
• Members of Get Lit perform “.” There’s hope for our youth. Hell, there’s even hope for our poetry.
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