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Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was apparently based on a real person; Applewood Books acquires Commonwealth Editions; a gay-themed short story collection is banned by two libraries in New Jersey; a fifteen-year-old novelist debuts in France; and other news.
Tony Blair donates his book royalties to injured troops; the University of Texas Co-op buys an Espresso Book Machine; Scarlett Johansson is up for the role of Lisbeth Salander; the Rocky Mountain Land Library; and other news.
The battle over control of Barnes & Noble; the Midnight Poet of West Virginia; October's feast of literary festivals; authors step up to save an Ohio library; and other news.
A hotel in Sri Lanka commemorates a past visit from Anton Chekhov; Borders lays off more workers; Marilyn Monroe's private writings reveal a passion for literature; Jonathan Franzen snags the cover of Time magazine; and other news.
Radio's StoryCorps comes to the small screen; HuffPo's list of overrated writers; a library system saved; the value of a graduate degree in writing; and other news.
Florida school officials censor Chris Abani book; an artist creates a major installation using books; a bookish dating site launches; some coffee shops aren't e-reader-friendly; and other news.
A new nonprofit delivers Kindles to Ghana; young adult books aren't just for kids; a new social networking site for readers; karmic advice for emerging writers; and other news.
Booker Prize odds are in favor of British novelists; Zadie Smith is among cultural luminaries honored by the New York Public Library; ten stylish literary characters get their due; and other news.
HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster both report increased revenues; Pittsburgh welcomes a "second wave" of indie bookstores; the Kama Sutra is published as an audiobook for the first time; Taylor Plimpton throws his debut book launch in his father's old apartment; and other news.
Borders lays off one hundred more workers in Tennessee; Barnes & Noble goes up for sale; Seattle loves its libraries; Winston Churchill's written archive will be available online by 2012; and other news.
New York's indie bookstore renaissance; the Brooklyn Book Festival announces this year's lineup of authors; Connecticut's attorney general looks into recent major e-book pricing deals; the NEA cuts funding for the Big Read program; and other news.
The USO is enlisting thriller authors to entertain the troops; a Montana poet embarks on a horseback book tour; Newsweek offers an excerpt from Mark Twain's autobiography; the Chinese writer and activist Liu Xianbin is transferred to another detention facility; and other news.
A Moscow poet is convicted of illegal militant activity; Barnes & Noble begins a bricks-and-mortar push for the Nook; Andrew Wylie threatens to grow his new publishing company; an online bookseller opens a retail store in Minnesota; and other news.
Kennedy Book Store in Kentucky celebrates sixty-five years in business; Amazon introduces the third-generation Kindle; a new dating site connects people through their taste in books; the ABA comes out against the Wylie-Amazon deal; and other news.
Skyhorse Publishing acquires Arcade Publishing; Random House gets a new publisher; Amazon is reportedly sold out of the Kindle; local bookstores come to the aid of North Carolina's Charlotte Mecklenburg Library; and other news.
No winner is named in New Zealand's 2010 Maori language book prize; Apple is accused of censorship again; the real-life wife of The Bookseller of Kabul is awarded damages for her portrayal in the book; saving wet books in Chicago; and other news.
Dublin is named an UNESCO city of literature; the Authors Guild reacts to the Amazon-Wylie deal; Richard Hugo House plans The Novel: Live; the Library of America launches a blog; and other news.
Random House and Macmillan react negatively to the Wylie-Amazon deal; a handwritten, unpublished Kafka short story is discovered in his papers; Eat, Pray, Love spawns a tourism boom in Bali; the New York Times rounds up recent indie press poetry collections; and other news.
A rehabilitation program in Texas trades jail time for required reading; there are now more iPad owners than Kindle owners; the new Paris Review editors reject a number of poems that had been accepted by previous editors; the tenuous state of tenure at American universities; and other news.
The Sony Reader Store has sold over ten million e-books; the Humane Reader brings e-books to the poor; The Nature of Words opens a literary arts center in Oregon; a flood of books on the Gulf oil spill; and other news.
Compilations of Woody Allen's writings are available in audiobook form; Amazon's e-book sales trump hardcover numbers; a Serbian publisher takes translation into its own hands; a serial book thief is sentenced to imprisonment for three years; and other news.
A trove of unpublished Franz Kafka manuscripts finally see the light in Zurich, Switzerland; Burmese poet Saw Wei discusses his experiences of imprisonment; the President of the Dominican Republic visits the Harvard Bookstore; the Los Angeles Review of Books will lauch this fall online; and other news.
O: The Oprah Magazine is coming to the iPad with its own e-book store; the Obamas will serve as honorary chairs of the National Book Festival in September; the University of Toronto announces the impending closure of its renowned Centre for Comparative Literature; Dave Eggers has his first solo art show; and other news.
FSG launches a monthly newsletter; the nineteenth annual Thomas Hardy Conference kicks off later this month in the United Kingdom; a major Japanese author publishes his new book on the iPad; Velveteen Films sets up a book-to-film department; and other news.
Apple may be planning to release second-generation iPads later this year; Jonathan Franzen revives a seventy-year-old novel; the Tokyo International Book Fair sets attendance records; a book tour by sailboat; and other news.
