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:
Amazon is close to settling a lawsuit filed earlier this year by a Seattle man, who claims that a Kindle he purchased for his wife developed cracks and eventually stopped working (TechFlash [2]).
Prime View International, the Taiwanese tech firm that supplies the screens used in most e-readers, is expected to launch a lighter, more durable plastic display in 2010 (Financial Times [3]).
Economic woes are forcing the closure of two independent bookstores in Nebraska, including thirty-year-old Lee Booksellers in Lincoln (Omaha World-Herald [4]).
A bankruptcy sale marks the final hours of the Borders UK chain (Bookseller [5]).
Meanwhile, with the sole bookstore in Laredo, Texas, slated to close next month, municipal and state leaders are trying to attract a replacement (Houston Chronicle [6]).
The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Baltimore Sun, and the Denver Post have joined the roster of wirelessly-delivered newspapers now available through Sony’s Daily Edition e-reader (Engadget [7]).
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo: The explicit incipit from a first-century work by the Roman poet Catullus is at the center of a bizarre court case in Britain (Guardian [8]).
Scholarly book depository BiblioVault and its parent, the University of Chicago Press, have unveiled a new platform that lets academic publishers sell e-books directly through the Web (Publishers Weekly [9]).