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Andrew Motion reveals plans to write a sequel to Treasure Island; President Obama visits a bookstore in Iowa City; Apple's iBooks pricing may match Amazon's after all; Geoffrey Hill is announced as a candidate for the Oxford poetry chair; and other news.
A Canadian poet is encoding his poetry into bacterial DNA; Egypt is experiencing a fiction explosion; reading proficiency continues to stagnate among America's schoolchildren; the folks from Jersey Shore land a book deal; and other news.
South Korean scientists develop 3-D book technology; Los Angeles libraries face staff cuts due to budget reductions; a British Airways strike disrupts the Bologna Book Fair; Australian publishers are playing "catch-up" in the digital book revolution; and other news.
Publishers Weekly releases its ranking of 2009 best-selling hardcover books; Apple pens deals with two more publishers for its iBookstore; the second annual Rainbow Book Fair takes place this weekend; Ted Hughes gets a plaque in rarefied Poets' Corner; and other news.
Will Ferrell is set to star in a new Raymond Carver adaptation; Hull City commemorates the anniversary of Philip Larkin's death with toads; library lovers attempt to raise millions to stave off closures; a woman finalist for "Million's Poet"; and other news.
After five years, the Atlantic renews its commitment to fiction; two editors quit Harper's; Ian McEwan is planning an opera of Atonement; the all-star lineup for PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is announced; and other news.
Bob Miller leaves HarperStudio for Workman Publishing; BEA announces New York Book Week; changes at the top for Barnes & Noble; Amazon threatens to remove buy buttons again; and other news.
Britain's poet laureate memorializes David Beckham in verse; Borders invites books clubs into its cafés; agents fret over the emergence of "enhanced" digital book editions; Kwame Anthony Appiah is reelected as president of the PEN American Center; and other news.
Library borrowing increases in Britain for the first time in decades; iPad's text-to-speech technology raises copyright concerns; a "lost" Shakespeare play is reclaimed; the Texas Board of Education cuts Jefferson from textbooks; and other news.
City Lights Bookstore wins Bookseller of the Year; the question of authorship is raised yet again regarding Shakespeare's work; a John Grisham novel gets a stage adaptation; South by Southwest Interactive takes place this week in Austin; and other news.
The Chronicle comes to the defense of humanities departments; the Top Forty Bad Books list stirs up controversy; an Australian writer is refused a visa because he is HIV positive; the National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced; and other news.
A Colorado advocacy group calls for an Amazon boycott; an indie book collective in Paris starts an online bookselling portal; Hatchette Book Group reports a stellar sales year in 2009; Google signs an agreement to scan books for the Italian government; and other news.
Iranian poet Simin Behbahani was hit with a travel ban by her government; Samsung launches a new e-reader with Barnes & Noble content; Shenandoah turns sixty and moves online; a Florida library helps with the Haitian earthquake relief efforts; and other news.
The brackets have been announced for the annual Morning News Tournament of Books; the University of Texas acquired David Foster Wallace's archive; a new edition of Finnegan's Wake incorporates nine thousand changes; the New York Times spins off its Book Review for e-readers; and other news.
Four films based on books picked up Oscars; the Man Asian Literary Prize undergoes major restructuring; English professors are still the lowest salary earners on campus; Britain's new super-library trend; and other news.
FSG editor Lorin Stein is named editor of the Paris Review; Barnes & Noble plans to bundle printed books with e-books; Vanity Fair collects tributes to Barry Hannah; the iPad gets an official U.S. launch date; Jon Stewart to headline the 2010 BookExpo America; and other news.
Smashwords publishes an anthology to benefit Haiti; Penguin UK unveils "stunning" new iPad book technology; India may soon become the largest English-language book market; Paris takes action to protect its indie bookstore culture; and other news.
A literary club in Saudi Arabia is targeted by arsonists; books now outnumber games in the iTunes store; the recently debunked Hiroshima book sees an upturn in fortune and sales; Tim Burton acquires the film rights to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and other news.
Mississippi writer Barry Hannah has died three days before a conference is to honor his life's work; a Chinese writer is placed under house arrest for attempting to attend a literary festival; a new biography attempts to label Kapuscinski as a fiction writer; the Lamda Literary Foundation launches an new online journal and blog community; and other news.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in Austerlitz, New York, will be opened to the public; the New York Times reports on the blurring line between plagiarism and "appropration;" Australia's oldest literary festival kicks off this week; a library in Pennsylvania loans Kindles; and other news.
Tom Corwin is hitting the road this spring on a cross-country bookmobile trip; Faber & Faber is starting a new creative writing school in Canada; bloggers draw attention to the various editors of the 2010 Best American series of anthologies, all of whom are white men; and other news.
Wordnik announces its new Smartwords initiative; a look at last year's best-seller lists, arranged by American city; Knopf will publish New Yorker editor David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama; Dell plans to release its Mini 5 tablet; and other news.
Villagers in Yemen protest the country's dictator poet laureate; Alibris aquires Monsoon; Salman Rushdie announces plans for a book on the fatwa years; a Chicago teacher is changing lives through spoken word; and other news.
The PEN American Center celebrates Black History Month with author tributes and rare recordings; the Boston Public Library faces major closures due to budget cuts; a poet in Florida is accused of killing her boyfriend; thousands of authors opt out of the Google Settlement; and other news.
The world's biggest book club started in a hair salon in Texas; the French National Library pays millions for a Casanova manuscript; the finalists for oddest book title of the year are announced; and other news.
