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Vanity Fair's Call Me Caitlyn Cover Named 2015 Cover of the Year

Vanity Fair's Call Me Caitlyn cover has been named the ASME Cover of the Year. ESPN the Magazine won the Readers' Choice Award. March 31, 2016

National Geographic's April 2016 Issue Features 10 Different Animal Covers

National Geographic's April 2016 issue features ten different covers. Each cover features a different animal. March 28, 2016

Modern Luxury Media Launches Silicon Valley Magazine

Modern Luxury Media has launched a new Silicon Valley magazine targeted at an affluent readership. March 26, 2016

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 11 Arrives on November 1, 2016

The eleventh entry in the Wimpy Kid series will arrive in bookstores on November 1, 2016. It does not yet have a title. March 25, 2016

J.K. Rowling Shares Rejection Letters With Fans

J.K. Rowling posted two of the rejection letters she received for her first crime novel which she wrote under the name Robert Galbraith. March 25, 2016

Time Inc. Launches Women's Site Called Motto

Time Inc. has launched a site called Motto. The new site is targeted at millennial women. March 23, 2016

Kevin Hart Inks Memoir Deal With Simon and Schuster's 37 Ink

Comedian Kevin Hart is writing a memoir for Simon and Schuster. From the Hart will be released on Father's Day, 2017 March 23, 2016

Paul Beatty Wins 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Paul Beatty won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel The Sellout, a tragicomic look at race relations in America today. March 20, 2016

Newly Discovered H.P. Lovecraft Manuscript About Superstition to be Sold At Auction

A newly discovered manuscript about the causes of superstition will be auctioned off in Chicago. H.P. Lovecraft ghost wrote the manuscript for Harry Houdini. March 18, 2016

Heathrow Teams With Children's Poets for Easter Weekend Poetry Initiative

Heathrow airport has teamed with children's authors and poets for a poetry initiative for kids traveling over Easter weekend. March 17, 2016

Instagram Announces Move to Algorithmic Feeds

Instagram has announced a move to an algorithmic feed. This is similar to what Facebook does with its feed. March 15, 2016

U.S. Ranks Seventh in Literacy Says New Study

A new study ranks 60 countries for literacy and the U.S. came in 7th. The most literate countries are Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark. March 14, 2016

Nora Roberts Signs Six Book Deal With St. Martin's Press

Internationally bestselling author Nora Roberts has signed a six book deal with St. Martin's Press. She is very happy with her new publishing home. March 12, 2016

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Chair Up for Auction

The chair J.K. Rowling used to write the first two Harry Potter books is being auctioned off. The oak chair will have an opening bid of $45,000. March 12, 2016

Meredith Corporation to Cease Publishing More Magazine

Meredith Corporation has announced plans to cease publishing More magazine. The April 2016 issue will be the last. March 11, 2016

Fandango Acquires Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes

Fandango announced it has signed an agreement to acquire both Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes includes the popular Tomatometer ratings. March 10, 2016

Margaret Atwood Dons an Octopus Hat to Accept Red Tentacle Award

Margaret Atwood has won the 2015 Kitschies Red Tentacle Award for best novel. She wore an octopus fascinator to accept the British award for fantastic fiction. March 9, 2016

Hockey Great Wayne Gretzky Writing a Book About Hockey

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky is writing a book about hockey that will be released for the 99th anniversary of the NHL. March 7, 2016

Apple Smacked Down by Supreme Court: Ebook Price Fixing Case is Over

Apple has lost the ebook price fixing case. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, so now Apple must pay out $400 million to ebook consumers. March 7, 2016

SNL Cold Open: Jason Sudeikis Returns as Mitt Romney

Jason Sudeikis returns as Mitt Romney in hilarious SNL Cold Open. Mittens has a strong message for Donald Trump. March 6, 2016

Prince of Tides Author Pat Conroy Dead at 70

Bestselling novelist Pat Conroy has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70. March 6, 2016

Spotlight and The Big Short Win Screenplay Awards at the 2016 Oscars

Spotlight and The Big Short won the screenplay awards at the 2016 Oscars. Spotlight won Best Original Screenplay and The Big Short won the Best Adapted Screenplay. March 1, 2016

Tommy Mottola Slapped With Lawsuit by Hachette

Mariah Carey's ex-husband Tommy Mottola is being sued by Hachette for taking advance money and failing to turn in his book manuscript. February 26, 2016

Simon & Schuster Launches Muslim Focused Imprint Salaam Reads

Simon & Schuster is launching a children's imprint called Salaam Reads. The stories and character will be Muslims, but the books are aimed at children of all faiths. February 26, 2016

President Obama Nominates Dr. Carla D. Hayden to be Librarian of Congress

President Obama has nominated Dr. Carla Hayden to be the next Librarian of Congress. She must be confirmed by the Senate. February 25, 2016