February 24, 2014

Japan has been hit with an ugly string of vandalism recently, with hundreds of copies of Anne Frank books defaced in Tokyo libraries. Martin Fackler writes for the New York… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library — Nikki Griffiths
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton

Wikipedia to be a book, or rather, a lot of books

Sal Robinson

Those sneaky Wikipedians! First, they made print encyclopedias obsolete, and now, they’ve decided that perhaps print isn’t so dusty and backwards after all. A group called the Wikipedia Book Project… Read more »

“Train time is found time”: Amtrak offers residencies for writers

Emma Aylor

This past week, the idea of writing residencies on Amtrak trains took off. On the 19th, Jessica Gross, Amtrak’s first writer-in-residence (for a few days, anyway), published a short essay… Read more »

Your mother was right: poll confirms most writers don’t make any money

Martin Rouse

Over 9,000 authors reported their writing income in the 2014 Digital Book World Author Survey, and—spoiler!—it wasn’t very much. Specifically, 54% of traditionally published authors (and 77% of self-published), made… Read more »

Melville House Books

Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo

Nick Davies