- The horror … the horror—the money-making horror. Scribner buys rights to 27 Stephen King titles. (Los Angeles Times)
- President Obama begins testing out post-public-life careers, interviews author Marilynne Robinson. (The New York Review of Books)
- New clues surrounding a possible brick-and-motar Amazon bookstore. (GeekWire)
- Salman Rushdie defends free speech at Frankfurt Book Fair opening. (Publishers Weekly)
- Cinemax options rights to The Skin Trade, George R. R. Martin’s werewolf book. (Stop distracting him!) (GalleyCat)
- Ottawa Public Library questions the high price of ebooks. (Ottawa Citizen)
- Four movies and a comic series: Dark Horse to publish a series of Avatar books. (The Guardian)
- Cosplay is not consent: New York Comic Con heavily promotes its anti-harassment policy. (TeleRead)
- Kobo’s Super Points program doesn’t sound so super. (Good e-Reader)
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