Newswire
Posted on July 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Danika Ellis shares two upcoming virtual author events, for those like her who want to attend something but perhaps can't or don't want to go in person (Book Riot).
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Webtoon Entertainment, a popular comic and manga publisher which also owns Wattpad, went public last week (Publishers Weekly).
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In other publishing news, Hollywood has developed an interest in releasing its screenplays as books (Inverse).
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Ismail Kadare, a giant of Albanian literature whose work spanned six decades, has died at the age of eighty-eight (The Guardian).
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Ukraine has passed a new law that subsidizes the cost of renting space to open a bookstore and that offers book certificates for eighteen-year-olds (Literary Hub).
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Here's what happened to the first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane, which went up for auction last week (Literary Hub).
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