How a viral post got some key statistics wrong.
Links of the week February 6 2012 (06)
Harry Potter Books Full-Cast Audiobooks to Be Exclusively on Audible
Listen up, Potterheads: J.K. Rowling's seven original Harry Potter books are getting a massive new audiobook series.
What Phones Are Doing to Reading | The New Yorker
For the past five years or so, I've read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests. When a publisher provided a choice between a PDF of a book and a physical copy, I would usually ask for the PDF, because I didn't want my house to fill up with books that I might end up not reading. But what was at first a matter of clutter-free convenience became a habit, and now I encounter nearly every written work, regardless of its length, quality, and difficulty, on the small screen of my iPhone.
CJ Sansom obituary | CJ Sansom | The Guardian
Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries
Viral Poet Nikita Gill Reimagines Greek Goddess in Debut YA Trilogy
The Guardian calls Irish-Indian poet Nikita Gill "Britain's most-followed poet on social media"-she has 780,000 Instagram followers and 180,000 TikTok followers, and her Instapoetry has been reshared by the likes of Khloe Kardashian, Alanis Morissette, and Sam Smith-and she has published seven volumes of poetry and two novels in the U.K. But she is far less known on this side of the pond. Margaret Raymo at Little, Brown acquired Hekate and its sequels, a loosely connected trilogy of novels in verse about the Greek goddesses of the Underworld, at auction in February, and hopes to make Gill a big star in the U.S. as well. The first book is due out in fall 2025, with the next two tentatively scheduled for summer 2026 and winter 2027.