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:
After removing "buy" buttons from all of the publisher's e-book and print editions on its Web site over the weekend, Amazon released a statement today agreeing to Macmillan's higher pricing for its e-book titles. (New York Times)
Amazon's overall earnings jumped 71 percent in 2009, with the company now selling six Kindle books for every ten print books sold. (Publishers Weekly)
The house where Rudyard Kipling was born in India
will become a museum, though the author will not be mentioned anywhere
in the building due to "political sensitivities." (Telegraph)
The New York Times reported further details from behind-the-scenes at Harper's after the magazine fired its editor last week.
International users may have to wait for iBooks, Apple's new online bookstore application, which launches in the United States in late March but has no announced international rollout. (Independent)
One million books from the Central Library in Manchester, England, will be put in temporary deep underground storage in the Cheshire salt mines. (Manchester Evening News)
Schools in Culper county, Virginia, will no longer teach a version of Anne Frank's diary after a parent complained about "sexually explicit material and homosexual themes" in the book. (Washington Post)
Sales of science fiction and fantasy novels have grown by nearly 20 percent in the last five years, a phenomenon industry analysts are calling the "Twilight Effect." (Telegraph)
The city of Redmond, Washington, home of technology giant Microsoft, appointed its first poet laureate. (Seattle Times)
