- Vancouver-based BitLit partners with Ingram to offer more ebook bundles, adds Goodreads integration (The Bookseller).
- Perseus Book Group announces plans to sell company (Publishers Weekly).
- Toronto welcomes The Lockhart, its very own Harry Potter–themed bar (Now Magazine).
- Along with authors’ initiatives to raise money for Syrian refugees, migrant camps are seeing an influx of book donations for their libraries (Publishing Perspectives).
- Chicken Soup for the Soul books slated for film adaptation (Galleycat).
- New Seamus Heaney translation to be posthumously published next year (The Guardian).
- Crime Writers’ Association launches online initiative, Dagger Reads (Booktrade.info).
- Liquor and literature really do go hand in hand: great novels written under the influence (Flavorwire).
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