Check out these five great stories from around the web.

1. An interesting question was posed at a Digital Book World panel: “Will bars save independent bookstores?”
2. Self-publishing your book can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Check out these 10 tips on how to win in the self-published world.
3. Let’s get a little meta here: while these tips for blog success are intended for published authors, they can easily be applied to any blogger anywhere.
4. Turning blockbuster books into blockbuster movies has never been more popular a la Girl and Girl on the Train. Check out these five books to read before they hit theatres this year.
5. The news is in: millennials are still reading. Not that anyone actually had any doubts about that…