Russia's Indie Publishing Scene, iPad's Text-to-Speech Raises Copyright Concerns, and More

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

The iPad's capacity to "read aloud the contents of any page" has caused concern in the book publishing industry over how that technology could impact audio book sales. (Christian Science Monitor)

Lulu.com announced plans to go public on the Canadian stock market. (News & Observer)

The Texas State Board of Education voted last week to exclude Thomas Jefferson from future textbooks "because of the whole separation of church and state thing." (Scientific American)

One bookstore has sold more than thirteen thousand copies of a midlist title about pilots in World War II—well over half the total of all copies sold. (Publishers Weekly)

Archivists are finding digital materials much harder to preserve than print materials because of how quickly the storage devices degrade and become outmoded. (New York Times)

Publishing Perspectives takes a look inside Russia's indie publishing scene. 

After ten years of rigorous "literary detective work," an eighteenth-century play allegedly based on a "lost" work by Shakespeare is now receiving widespread legitimacy as a drama originating from the bard. (Guardian) 

Britain's Stratford Literary Festival has commissioned a novel to be penned by students in a community writing project. (Los Angeles Times)

Library borrowing in the U.K. has increased for the first time in twenty years. (Bookseller)

Anyone up for a game of book-review-cliché bingo? (Examiner)