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Tuesday News: Marlon James to write epic fantasy, paper v (?) digital, the...

Marlon James’s Next Book Will Be an ‘African Game of Thrones’ – Marlon James, who recently won the Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, is planning a high fantasy series, beginning...

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Wednesday News: Dallas Buyers Club’s legal setback, Shelfie, misused words,...

Dallas Buyers Club: iiNet case thrown out in landmark ruling on piracy in Australia – When an Australian federal court held that the Dallas Buyers Club could pursue the IP addresses of some 5,000...

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Monday News: Samhain is closing and other news

The Long Goodbye – On late Friday news broke on the internet that Samhain was “winding down.” We suspected that this would be the end but are sorry to see it happen. Samhain was an innovator and an...

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Tuesday News: Streaming audiobooks from the cloud, brain dumps, and missing...

Daughter of ‘disappeared’ Hong Kong book publisher won’t be silent – For the first year she can remember, Gui Minhai’s daughter, Angela Gui, did not get a call from her father on her birthday. Gui is...

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Friday News: Audio on the rise, Perseus + Ingram, and “toward a radical...

Book sales are in decline but audio books are thriving – More on the rise of print, not just in the US, but in the UK, too, with a side of ‘print is more expensive = good’, and ‘ebooks are “cheaper” =...

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Monday News: End(?) of Harry Potter, listening v. reading, and the OMG...

J.K. Rowling Says Harry Potter’s Story Is Done With The Release Of ‘Cursed Child’ – Although I don’t follow this franchise very closely, I seem to remember Rowling declaring the end of Potter before...

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Friday News: A place for audio, Apple’s $300 design book, women’s writing in...

IS AUDIO REALLY THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK? – Although we’ve talked a lot about the increasing popularity of audiobooks, this essay from Rebecca Rego Barry on the history and reception of aural reading...

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Monday News: Indie audiobooks, kids’ subscription services, Harlem...

Libro.fm Launches Audiobook Subscriptions – Libro.fm is now offering a DRM-free audiobook subscription service for the same price as Audible’s Gold level ($15 a month). With more than 70,000 books and...

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Friday News: Wonder Woman, Vellum, audiobook covers, and paper animals

The Complex Gender Politics of the ‘Wonder Woman’ Movie – The title of this article might be better represented as “the complex gender politics of commentary on the ‘Wonder Woman’ movie,” because it...

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Wednesday News: Married Love, reading more, Shakespeare’s sources, and V-Day...

What can we learn from Marie Stopes’s 1918 book Married Love? – Rafia Zakaria discusses Stopes’s book, which was published in the era of the First World War – a year before The Sheik – and tackled the...

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