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Trump’s 2020 Budget Proposal Threatens to Defund Libraries

Trump's FY2020 budget proposal would end federal funding of libraries, but the American Library Association promises to fight back.

The 20 Most Popular Books on Goodreads Right Now

Are you reading any of the most popular books on Goodreads this month?

Audible Launches Audible Latino For Spanish-Language Audiobooks

Audible has announced the creation of a dedicated space for Spanish-language audiobooks and entertainment!

New AR Game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Revealed!

Honestly, I'm a little miffed it isn't called Harry Potter Go!, but whatever. It's fine. I'll get over it.

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Hints at an Epic Prequel

This is no re-adaptation. No, it's going bigger—as many suspected and hoped, it's going epic, and it's going prequel.

Amazon Closing All 87 Pop-up Stores, Expanding Physical Bookstores

Amazon announced today that their 87 pop-up stores across the U.S. will close by the end of the year as they re-evaluate their brick-and-mortar strategy.

Netflix to Adapt Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Netflix has announced that it has acquired the rights to develop One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is the first time the novel will be adapted for screen. 

Watch the First Full-Length Trailer for Neil Gaiman’s GOOD OMENS

Good Omens, the hilarious and irreverent novel collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is headed to Amazon on May 31 as a mini-series.

The Nobel Prize in Literature to Be Awarded Again

During the Nobel Prize ceremony two prizes in literature will be awarded--one for 2019 and one for 2018

The 2018 State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing from The Ripped Bodice

It’s time for the third annual State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing Report from The Ripped Bodice, and the numbers are bleak.