- Authors worldwide host readings to protest impending death sentence of Saudi Arabian poet Ashraf Fayadh. (The Guardian)
- What could be more magically romantic than Valentine’s Day at Hogwarts? (The Independent)
- Reimagining Nancy Drew and Anne of Green Gables in the age of peak TV. (Flavorwire)
- Chronicles of Narnia films being rebooted before they even finish. (Indiewire)
- His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman resigns from Oxford literary festival over lack of payment to authors. (The Guardian)
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt employee fired after saying textbook publishers care more about money than educating kids. (Melville House)
- U.K. reader eagerly awaiting delivery of Amazon Kindle receives tumour specimen instead. (The Digital Reader)
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