“Politically correct” edition of Huck Finn censors Twain

Do Libraries have a future in the digital age

The heads have, voluntarily, started to roll at Borders

Barnes and Noble reports  biggest retail day ever thanks to the Nook

Library of America releases it’s list of bestselling titles

NBCC polls readers for the books they’d like to see back in print

It’s J.R.R. Tolkien‘s birthday

The Millions most anticipated book of 2011

The Daily Beast’s most anticipated books of 2011
(or 5/12ths of it)

The Guardian picks the “best books of 2011”

Scholastic debuts interactive book apps

London Review of Books is looking for an editor

How could we not help promote Snooki‘s “A Shore Thing”
Just read these excerpts in the New York Post

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