• The number of independent bookstores has since 2009. But as Book Riot , the number has suffered a 25% overall decrease since 2000.
• Want to publish Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman overseas? Gotta travel to to read it. (Watch the agent’s attitude adjust when he peddles his next book.)
• Barnes & Noble will spin off its as its own publicly traded company. Textbooks account for almost 45% of B&N’s revenue.
• The . I’ve known authors like this. I’m not saying you’re one, of course, but they’re out there.
• 8,000 rare books and manuscripts in the Mosul Public Library have been .
• Former inmates and .
• The Bram Stoker Award have been announced.
• Maya Angelou will get a .
• Forty-two years after his death, Pablo Neruda will finally .
• A previously unknown by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been discovered in an attic. (Some Conan Doyle wrote it.) It’s always an attic, isn’t it? Go search your attic right this moment: who knows what you may find. By the way, here are some about the recent plethora of manuscript discoveries.
• The copyright on soon to expire, it will be reprinted in Germany, despite howls of protest. I’ve read this book, and don’t believe it’s as dangerous as its detractors suggest. Mostly it’s the somewhat incoherent rant of a man who believed, at the time, he was unjustly persecuted. A squillion copies of the original exist, and autographed copies are actively traded, in Germany, behind closed doors.
• A writer is because he supports marriage equality and identifies with the LGBT community. Shocker. The silver lining is all the publicity he’s receiving.
• Nicholas Rossis his Amazon advertising experience. Also: how Amazon advertising .
• Writers and publishers are , bypassing literary agents. But is it a trend?
• Poets & Writers has . It will do for writers “what HopStop does for straphangers.” Well that clears everything up, doesn’t it?
• Finally, why the llamas escaped! To attend a book reading, of course.
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