• In 64 countries surveyed, girls have in reading and literacy. “Reading rates are falling everywhere as screens draw eyes from pages, but boys are giving up faster.” That’s right: video games are to blame. We knew this was coming.
• Like other (likewise unscientific) surveys by Mark Coker, $3.99 still appears to be the for a full-length ebook, both in terms of sales and now “fairness.”
• A history of , in case you wanted one.
• The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the testing of . I confess when I first heard about such drones months ago I thought it was a joke.
• Is B&N more than we think? I’m not convinced.
• The Emperor Franzen Twitter account has been . Its day was over anyway: “The joke had worn thin,” says the creator, “and I’m not on Twitter as much as I used to be anyway.”
• Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman .
• A guide to . This stuff gives me a boner.
• 30 times the novel has been since 1902. Let’s make it 31: The novel is dead. Long live the novel!
• Three Salinger stories are at the center of a . Recall the recent Conan Doyle . Is it just me, or are literary estates getting irrationally greedy?
• Library cards ? We ought to be doing this in America.
• Do spur creativity or stifle it? Never having had any money, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
• In January we reported that . Now it appears .
• Finally, this is almost , but would any responsible news service leave it out? Would they? I put it to you.
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