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 Obama administration granted a visa waiver to the Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was barred from assuming a tenured position at the University of Notre Dame by the Bush administration in 2004 (Press Release [2]).
The e-reader wars are heating up as Amazon opened the Kindle to third-party apps and Apple representatives spent the week in New York City talking with trade publishers (New York Times [3]).
A group of publishers retained bankruptcy counsel after Borders Group delayed in making scheduled payments (Financial Times [4]).
Sourcebooks, the Chicago-based publisher of the successful Poetry Speaks anthology series, launched a Web site where consumers can pay to download poems (Publishing Perspectives [5]).
The state of Oregon is now accepting applications for its poet laureate position (OregonLive [6]).
Booklocker and Amazon have reached a settlement agreement in the antitrust lawsuit filed by Booklocker against the Web retailer in 2008 (Publishers Weekly [7]).
An Israeli court ordered the release of an archive of original Franz Kafka manuscripts previously stored in a cat-infested apartment in Tel Aviv (Telegraph [8]).
The latest set of Australian Legend stamps will feature six award-winning novelists, the first time Ausi writers have received such an honor (Sydney Morning Herald [9]).
A librarian in Georgia raised over twenty thousand dollars for the Haitian relief effort after pledging his own savings in a matching funds drive (Library Journal [10]).