This week on the bookish internet

• Heather Schwedel reports on why librarians are pissed at Macmillan for their restrictions on library ebooks. (Slate)
  • Meanwhile, librarians, volunteers, and others are busily digitizing as many public domain books as they can get their hands on. (Vice)
• PEN America is launching an initiative to get more books to incarcerated people, who are often prevented from getting books by Puritanical bureaucracies. (Book Riot)
  • In Brazil, Felipe Neto is giving out free LGBTQ+ books in Brazil in protest of censorship efforts there.
• Wow, Faber & Faber passed on a lot of really good books. (LitHub)
• Did you know that Urban Dictionary is 20 years old? Jason Parham writes about the cons, but mostly pros, of the crowdsourced dictionary. (WIRED)
• Good news, Terry Pratchett fans! The BBC is making a series based on the Watch novels! (BBC America)
• Just in time for October, Mary Kay McBrayer has 17 signs you might be dating Edgar Allan Poe. (Book Riot)