- New York Times to change children’s bestseller lists.
- Simon & Schuster partners with Hotels.com to give free ebooks to travelers.
- Kamal Al-Solaylee, Merrily Weisbord, and Michael Harris to judge 2015 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize.
- German publishers drop “hard” DRM.
- Warner Bros. to adapt Dante’s Inferno as movie franchise.
- Romanian town of Cluj-Napoca lets travelers reading books ride public transit free.
- Ali Smith expresses concern over library closures at Edinburgh International Book Festival.
- R.L. Stine on scary stories and his favourite authors.
- Happy 125th birthday H.P. Lovecraft!
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