Amazon

• Amazon Launches Day One Imprint Focusing on Poetry and Short-Fiction | GoodEReader
• Amazon launches MatchBook bundling programme | The Bookseller

Publishers

• HarperCollins Begins Selling eBooks Directly to Readers | GoodEReader
• Penguin Random House acquires Figment | Melville House. Figment is a site for teenage writers with 300,000 members.

Authors, Writers

• Writing Advice From George R.R. Martin, Karen Lord, and Other Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors | Flavorwire
• Junot Díaz to Release Illustrated Edition of ‘This Is How You Lose Her’ | ColorLines

Books, Bookstores, Media

• Ireland to consider ending censorship of books | Melville House
• Marsan and Carvel for Jonathan Strange BBC1 adaptation | The Bookseller
• World Book Night Titles Announced | EarlyWord
• Canada Reads 2014 Top 40 | CBC Books
• 50 Books to Inspire Artists of All Kinds | Flavorwire
• 7 Great Works of Fiction Inspired by Famous Architecture | Flavorwire
• Amazing pics of an abandoned church turned into a bookstore in The Netherlands. Cool Bookish Places: Waanders In der Broeren | BookRiot