Posted on December 15, 2025 at 3:00 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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Jeanette Winter, author of child-friendly biographies of creatives like Emily Dickinson, Georgia O'Keefe, J.S. Bach, and Benny Goodman, died November 7 at age eighty-six; in total, she wrote and/or illustrated more than sixty-five children's books (The New York Times).
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Arvyn Cerezo breaks down two new digital book formats — VOX and Wonderbooks — that can currently only be found in schools and libraries (Book Riot).
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Kindle users will be able to download new purchases that don't have Digital Rights Management as an EPUB or PDF format, starting January 20 (Kindle Direct Publishing).
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South Carolina's York County Library has just banned books about gender identity from under-18 sections in the library; Kelly Jensen unpacks how we got here (Book Riot).
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Raynor Winn, the embattled author of The Salt Path, is denying new allegations that she stole from relatives (The Guardian).
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Actor Johnny Depp will produce the first English-language feature adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (Deadline).
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