Paris Review Rejects Previously Accepted Poems, Amazon Scores Wylie Deal, and More

by Staff
7.22.10

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 new editors at the Paris Review have rejected a number of poems that had been accepted for publication by the magazine's former editors. Needless to say, this is causing a bit of a stir. (New York Observer)

According to eWEEK, there are now more iPad owners than Kindle owners. However, Amazon scored an important coup for the Kindle this week by securing a two-year exclusive e-book rights deal to the major works of top authors represented by literary agent Andrew Wylie, including Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nobokov, and John Updike. (Los Angeles Times)

The Hong Kong Book Fair opened on Wednesday with a new section on electronic publishing. The fair draws as many as nine hundred thousand annual visitors. (New York Times)

The Department of Canadian Heritage is embarking on a full federal review of Canada's book publishing industry in light of the technological developments of recent years. (Bookseller)

A rehabilitation program in Texas called Changing Lives Through Literature is replacing jail time for convicts with reading requirements and book clubs. No kidding. (Guardian)

As the Chronicle of Education reported earlier this month, a U.S. Department of Education report due out this fall may have some shocking data on the state of tenure in American universities. While 57 percent of college instructors were tenured or on the tenure track in 1975, "the new report is expected to show that that proportion fell below 30 percent in 2009."

The Grammy Award-winning singer Natalie Cole is set to release a memoir from Simon & Schuster in November. The book will include details of her recent kidney transplant and her memories of her famous father, the crooner Nat "King" Cole. (CBS)