The Book News We Covered This Week
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered this week at Book Riot.
Spotify has some new books available this spring. For starters, the streaming company is now officially offering physical books in the US and UK through its partnership with Bookshop.org (available today on Android and next week on iOS).
What to make of the fact that this data is in stark contrast to last year’s widely reported finding that only 16% of Americans reported reading for pleasure?
Differences in survey design may be a factor.
Over the past several years there has been a steady barrage of bad laws and targeted attacks on public libraries and public schools. Another program that is under attack at the state level is one whose benefits are well-researched and whose costs are so low that it’s clear that efforts to cancel funding are about cruelty rather than budget challenges: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
And for all Access members, Here are all the interesting links we bookmarked that didn’t make it to Today in Books coverage.
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