- Oyster, the ebook subscription service, is shuttering, with much of its staff migrating to Google (Publishers Weekly).
- U.S. poet C.K. Williams dies at 78 (Flavorwire).
- The University of Iowa begins project to digitize its zine collection (The Verge).
- Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary longlisted for £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize (The Guardian).
- Tintin comic album The Castafiore Emerald to receive opera adaption in Brussels (The Telegraph).
- Simon & Schuster signs deal with Donald Trump to publish the best, most papery book on re-making America great in the history of literature (The Hollywood Reporter).
- Hooked app creates books 4 teens 2 read digitally in 5 min. 🙂 (CNNMoney).
- Judy Blume discusses 45 years battling book censorship (Index on Censorship).
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