- Alice Walker declines to publish an Israeli edition of The Color Purple
- Thousands of U.K. jobs at risk if Google allowed “open access” to nation’s academic and scientific research
- British writer Max Hastings wins $100,000 Pritzker Military Library’s Literature Award
- Wiley to close Edinburgh office
- American libraries see budgets drop, according to report
- Ingram ebook platform the popular choice for university presses
- Simon & Schuster U.K. launches online crime fiction community, The Dark Pages
- Used bookstores suffer, while second-hand book fairs thrive