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With some quiet news the day before the holidays, it’s a good time to organize your bookmarked links account.
- Print sales fell 3.1% in Q1 2026 (Publishers Weekly)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar video game comes to Apple Arcade (Apple)
- Aragorn, played by Viggo Mortensen, will be recast in “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” (Variety)
- Why Swedish schools take books home (Andark)
- Tennessee librarian fired for refusing to move more than 100 books from children’s section to adult section (Associated Press)
- Is it wrong to use AI to write a book? (New York Times)
- 23 Books in 23 Days: Everything Jeremy O. Harris Read While Imprisoned in Japan (Vanity Fair)
- 16 Strangers, 1 304 Page Novel, Weekend Reading (New York Times)
- What is the daily routine of a so-called super leader? (Lighted Hub)
- What booksellers want from traditional publishers and how the bookstore market has changed (Jane Friedman)
- 5 Years of Lessons from Running My Own Bookstore (Ryan Holiday)
- ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series From Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Doors, Chris Yost Lands on Peacock (Variety)
- First publishing company born from Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPR News)
- Penguin sues OpenAI over German children’s book ChatGPT version (Guardian)
