- BookCon merges with New York Comic Con. (Good e-Reader)
- Glorious Heresies author Lisa McInerney wins 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. (BBC)
- Kobo releases Canadian ebook report. (Good e-Reader)
- Kobo parent company Rakuten shutters European retail site. (TeleRead)
- Leonardo DiCaprio is screenwriter and producer’s dream choice to play 13th-century poet Rumi. (Los Angeles Times)
- Late New York Times reporter David Carr’s daughter to pen book about her father… (Entertainment Weekly)
- …while AMC plans a miniseries based on Carr’s Night of the Gun, starring Bob Odenkirk. (Mashable)
- On the tribulations of translating David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest into Greek. (LitHub)
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