One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah wins the adult division of the Diverse Book Awards. Winners are announced for Bookshop.org UK’s inaugural Indie Champions Awards. Poets&Writers issues its “5 Over 50” list of the best debut poetry authors. Shortlists are announced for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections and the Waterstones Book of the Year Award.

The first step in solving a problem is seeing it clearly. This article, part one of an ongoing series, defines the broad scope and depth of the literacy crisis in the United States, among both children and adults. Future installments will address the complex ecosystem of schools, government agents, nonprofits, and more that are tackling this challenge; survey librarians on what they are doing to improve literacy in their communities; and highlight case studies and best practices of those making a difference.

New publishing models and online platforms feed Gen Z's need for free—or at least cheap—reading.

The nearly 100 titles previewed represent some of the best work coming in 2020.

The RWA cancels the RITA awards for 2020. Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize. LJ posts its findings from the Generational Reading Survey. There are updates to the page-to-screen calendar. The Witcher keeps getting buzz and The New Mutants gets a trailer.

When it comes to reading for pleasure, there are plenty of similarities across all age groups. But there are also enough variations in who is reading, how they read, and where they get books, to provide useful information about generational reading habits. LJ conducted a survey of 2,232 readers with at least 400 in each age group—Generation Z (16–22), Millennials (23–38), Generation X (39–54), Baby Boomers (55–73), and the Silent Generation (74–91)—to explore those differences.

I join those from the library community urging a reconsideration of Macmillan’s recent decision to limit libraries to one copy of new ebooks for the first two months of publication. This one size fits all embargo is, at best, an insensitive blockade. Libraries are key engines of book culture, and willing collaborators in the process of finding a path to access.

The next generation of adult (and almost there) readers shows some traditional—and surprising—reading traits.

Last month, the Panorama Project announced that Guy LeCharles Gonzalez would be taking over as Project Lead. The initiative aims to quantify the impact that libraries have on the publishing ecosystem—specifically the digital publishing ecosystem—and Gonzalez brings a new perspective to the project shaped by his 25 year career in the library and publishing fields.

Following a year-long test with its Tor imprint, Macmillan today announced a two-month embargo on sales of new ebook titles to libraries across all of its imprints.