Widbook Widens the Writing Network
A start-up based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aims to change the face of digital publishing through a writing-based social media tool.
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New Survey Reveals E-book Majority, Samsung Launches Amazon App, and More
A new app for remembering great ideas; a posthumous story collection by Maeve Binchy; meals from classic literature; and other news.
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Authors Guild Calls for Collective Licensing Agreement, Ted Cruz’s Memoir, and More
A game show winner turned bookseller; literary apps using cartography; the history behind Wes Anderson’s muse; and other news.
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Apple Files Second Appeal, John Steinbeck’s Google Doodle, and More
An author faces the threat of arrest after asking to protest; writing fiction helps a start-up; Ralph Ellison’s portrait unveiled in Oklahoma; and other news.
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Literary Twitter, Author Selfies, and More
The Millions rounds up the best literary tweets on Twitter; Flavorwire showcases twelve author selfies; Dana Stevens and Francine Prose discuss how a story’s classic marriage plot holds up; and other news.
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Natasha Trethewey on the State of Poetry, New Jane Austen Fragment, and More
Philip Roth restated that he is finished with the writing of novels; a new fragment of Jane Austen’s handwriting has been found; Wired reports the cost of the Amazon Prime program will increase significantly; and other news.
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Poetry Versus Prose Debate Results in Violence, Shakespeare Science, and More
The New Yorker published an excerpt of Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch; the Telegraph lists several products that use poets to move merchandise, including potato chips; USA Today details why generations of readers still love Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and other news.
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Falling Bookstore Sales, Amazon’s Mystery Device, and More
The Boston Globe reports that Amazon is working on a new product at its lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Paramount has purchased film rights to Sabaa Tahir’s first novel, An Ember in the Ashes, for seven-figures; Callie Leuck weighs in on the Oxford comma; and other news.
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Oyster Raises Fourteen Million Dollars, Benjamin Percy’s Novel Optioned by FOX, and More
Oyster, the Netflix-like service for literature, has raised fourteen million dollars in investments; Richard Nash will leave Small Demons and join Byliner; Benjamin Percy’s novel Red Moon has been optioned by FOX TV as a potential series; and other news.
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James Frey’s Big Score, Twitter Fiction Festival, and More
Researchers believe they may have found a computer algorithm that will predict bestsellers; Twitter announced its second annual fiction festival for March 12–16; A Million Little Pieces author James Frey landed a two million dollar film deal with 20th Century Fox; and other news.
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