HarperCollins buys out Hachette Livre's interest in Harlequin SA to create HarperCollins France. (Publishers Weekly) The mystery of Shakespeare's missing skull. (Atlas Obscura) New Kobo e-reader to launch for Mother's Day. (Good e-Reader) U.K.'s Publishers ... Read More »

Author-historian Margaret MacMillan launches video series. (CBC Books) A look at the University of British Columbia's recently acquired medieval manuscripts. (Publishing Perspectives) Irish author Eilis O'Hanlon discovers her 13-year-old mystery novel was plagiarized – and ... Read More »