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- Vine Videos: Burt’s Bees Stages Classic Works of Literature in Six-Second Vines Minus a few plot points
- “Stephen King Saved My Life”
- These Words You Use Every Day Have Racist/Prejudice Origins, And You Had No Idea
News
- Andrew Jacobs (The New York Times) with Authors Accept Censors’ Rules to Sell in China
Ideas
- David Gianatasio (Adweek) with Burt’s Bees Stages Classic Works of Literature in Six-Second Vines Minus a few plot points [Vine Videos]
- Jennie Rothenberg Gritz (The Atlantic) with The Barber’: A Story Flannery O’Connor Never Published
- Joe Fassler (The Atlantic) with “Stephen King Saved My Life”
- Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) with Even Amazon can’t keep up the “you only license ebooks” shuck
- Alison Peters (Book Riot) with Creative Book Marketing: Awesome Bookstore Signage Edition [Gallery]
- Nancy Jane Moore (Book View Cafe Blog) with Fictional Science
- Andrew Jack (Buzzy Mag) with The Top Ten Most Frightening Villains in Modern Literature
- David Wilk (Digital Book World) with Why it’s Too Early for Publishers to Give up on Media-Rich Ebooks
- Piotr Kowalczyk (eBook Friendly) with Young adult fiction – 6 most interesting infographics and charts [Infographic]
- Leo Elijah Cristea (Fantasy Faction) with Being A Reader: The Magic of Books
- Dan Solomon (Fast Co.Create) with The Book Thief Wants You To Imagine A World Without Words, Starting With The New York Times [Video]
- Sam Jordison (The Guardian) with Edgar Allan Poe’s shockingly unsensational storytelling
- Matthew Jacobs (The Huffington Post) with Jamie Dornan Will Play Christian Grey In ’50 Shades Of Grey’
- Carolyn Gregoire (The Huffington Post) with The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens
- Zoë Triska (The Huffington Post) with These Words You Use Every Day Have Racist/Prejudice Origins, And You Had No Idea
- Earle Labor (The Huffington Post) with Why Jack London’s Work Is Universally Appealing
- Joshua Chaplinsky (LitReactor) with Better Off Dead: 10 Posthumous Novels That Should Have Never Been Published
- Kimberly Turner (LitReactor) with LitRock: 9 Odd Stories Behind Book-Inspired Music
- Amanda S. Green (madgeniusclub) with Adaptation
- Kirsten Reach (Melville House) with Atlas Hugged
- Meredith McCullough (Thought Catalog) with Date A Guy Who Reads Hemingway
Interesting Books
- Rian Hughes (Boing Boing) with Soho Dives, Soho Divas: Sketching London’s burlesque artists
- Mark Frauenfelder (Boing Boing) with The Talented Mr. Ripley, psychological suspense featuring a fascinating anti-hero
- Kelly Jensen (Book Riot) with One Day Can Change Your Life: YA Stories Set in 24 Hours (or Less)
- Carey Dunne (Fast Co.Design) with A Scratch–N–Sniff Book For Budding Wine Snobs
- Madeleine Crum (The Huffington Post) with 9 Beloved Books That Almost Never Saw The Light Of Day
- Dean Fetzer (LitReactor) with Ralph Steadman: ‘I thought Hunter S. Thompson didn’t like me’
- Neal Thompson (Omnivoracious) with Exclusive Excerpt from Newly Discovered Pearl Buck Novel
- Gabrielle Moss (Thought Catalog) with The 5 Most Important Life Lessons Taught by R. L. Stine Books
- Emily Asher-Perrin (Tor) with Reading to Your Parents: My Mother, Coraline and Me
Libraries
- Jeremy Greenfield (Digital Book World) with Libraries and Ebooks: Spending Big on Fifty Shades of Grey
- LibraryJournal: Self-publishing and Libraries
Fun Stuff
- Cassandra Neace (Book Riot) with 8 Geek-Tastic Tees for Readers
- Book Riot: Book Fetish: Volume XCII
- Krutika Mallikarjuna (BuzzFeed) with 18 Book And Beer Pairings You Should Try This Weekend
- Nico Lang (Thought Catalog) with 27 Popular Books Retitled If They Were Honest