In preparation for visiting Denmark next month with Allan (@hanedane), I've been trying to learn a smattering of Danish. I'd heard that some people learned the language by watching Danish TV shows, but

Like Bees to Honey by Caroline Smailes Nina Aquilina travels back to her homeland, Malta, to visit her ageing parents who had previously disowned her. The stay turns out to be somewhat unexpected, as she

A publisher in France has installed story dispensers. Each story is free and is chosen for the reader at random:

Penguin Random House Books UK has partnered with Netflix to publish them:

Diaz, a Pulitzer Prize winner and editor at the Boston Review, has now been accused of sexual harassment:

Company will then offer the right novelists a guaranteed salary:

"Literary Hub has launched a new section of their site to showcase book reviews from the most important and active outlets of literary journalism."

"Collections brings together short works of fiction and nonfiction from a single writer or a group of writers." --

Study leads Dana Beth Weinberg and mathematician Adam Kapelner say yes:

It's called *The Royal Wedding Book* and will be available in stores in two weeks:

Bookchoice is a digital reading platform that will now highlight HarperCollins titles on its app:

Rick Anderson at the Scholarly Kitchen tackles the pros and cons of the "monopoly" of copyright:

HarperCollins,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Random House all report profits:

Michael and Lili Lynton have purchased Arcadia Publishing, heading the company with David Steinberger, former CEO of Perseus Books Group:

If so, they must have failed to hire decent lobbyists as Quick Reads loses funding in Britain: (Photograph: John Stillwell/PA)

But see if you can find the glaring typo in The Telegraph's headline about it:

Amy Hendricks recommends eight books with a garden theme:

Mary Cosper-LeBoeuf of the Terrebonne Parish Library gives her recommendations:

It seems to boil down to old versus new ways of doing things, including publishing and reading books:

Many of you have already done what I am about to discuss, so for you: Yay on you! Well done. Many writers, though, miss the essence of what will make you a successful author. They miss out on the gravy