- Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle says Latin America a top priority. (Publishing Perspectives)
- Hyperbolic Internet-speak is literally killing language. Srsly. (The New York Times)
- Online book retailer DangDang.com follows Amazon’s lead, to open 1,000 brick-and-mortar bookstores in China. (Melville House)
- Is this a wealth of Shakespeare scholarship I see before me? Oxford University Press uploading a treasure trove of material for the Bard’s 400th anniversary. (Booktrade.info)
- Losing in front of his home crowd: Morrissey takes this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Prize. (BBC)
- Reporter-humorist turns Donald Trump’s ramblings into the best, most amazing huge book of poetry in the history of words. #makepoetrygreatagain (Los Angles Times)
- Someone leaked Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s teenage library records and librarians are in a (respectively quiet) uproar. (The Guardian)
- Two men use pickup artist manual The Game to swindle U.K. woman out of £1.6 million. Regrets, the book’s author has a few. (The Telegraph)
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