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Let's start with a number: 37 million.

That's not page views or a figure about student debt. It's the number of subscribers to the PewDiePie YouTube channel.

PewDiePie is Felix Kjellberg, a video gamer with a legion of fans he calls "bros." He's the latest in a series of YouTube stars who have decided to publish a book.

"This Book Loves You" is a collection of aphorisms, bits of wisdom-slash-jokes, paired with photos and other visuals. It's coming out in October simultaneously in the U.K., Germany, Norway, Sweden and France and

Recording Industry Has ‘Virtually Eliminated Illegal File-Sharing’ In Norway — By Offering Better Products (Techdirt) A countrywide survey in December 2014 showed that just 4% of Norwegians under 30 years still used illegal file-sharing platforms to get hold of music. *** 4 Lessons From Two Months of Selling Books (Book Riot) A few months ago, […]

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French publishers saw strong foreign rights sales for several titles in 2014, and the Nobel Prize for Literature went to French novelist Patrick Modiano, who is published by Gallimard.

Not an easy read, Modiano often treats themes such as identity, memory and the German occupation in France during World War II. His book Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (So that you won't get lost in the neighborhood) which was published the week before the Nobel Prize was announced, has so far sold 305,000 copies

An interesting – and pretty conceptual – art project from Scottish artist Katie Paterson highlights issues around the future of the printed book, and even the survival of literature. The so-called Future Library (Framtidsbiblioteket) for the city of Oslo in Norway looks to commit 100 unpublished works – one per year – to a century’s […]

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Karl Ove Knausgaard is now the author du jour in the English-speaking world, with three more books still to come. And almost every article you read about him and his 6-volume memoir titled  says that the books were so popular in his native Norway when first published that, depending upon who is talking, the government […]

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Google Play Books May Have Launched in Norway, But You Can’t Find Norwegian Books There (The Digital Reader) Google may have launched a local Play Books store in Norway a couple weeks ago but they did so without few local titles. *** Amazon’s Dramatic Shift (Futurebook) Amazon is seeking a ‘dramatic’ shift in terms, according […]

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