
Anaïs Nin in the 1970s (Photo: Elsa Dorfman/Creative Commons)
- Former Barnes & Noble CEO Ron Boire gets $4.8 million (U.S.) payout. (Good e-Reader)
- Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells Tech Toronto that ebook companies need to set sights globally. (Good E-Reader)
- Amazon makes new volume of unreleased Anaïs Nin almost impossible to find on its platform. (The Guardian)
- How to succeed in the book industry the Trump way. (Esquire/Spy)
- HBO acquires Canadian and U.S. rights to J.K. Rowling’s crime-fiction series. (GalleyCat)
- Why are there so many books with “girl” in the title? (FiveThirtyEight)
- Why you should participate in National Novel Writing Month, even if you don’t aspire to be a writer. (BookRiot)
- Washington bans “scary” books from early childhood education centres. (Electric Lit)
- Looks like Bob Dylan is going to pick up his Nobel after all. (The Telegraph)