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A judge delays his ruling on the Google Settlement indefinitely; Elizabeth Alexander pens a tribute to Lucille Clifton; Ingram offers downloadable audio books to troops overseas; Up in the Air author is snubbed by Oscar ceremony despite six nominations; and other news.
A ruling on the Google Books Settlement is due today; Apple may discount e-book titles just like Amazon; the person accused of killing three University of Alabama colleagues is a relative of John Irving; front-runners emerge for the Oxford professor of poetry post; and other news.
Barnes & Noble rejects a billionaire investor's takeover bid; the Academy of American Poets launches an iPhone app; a British rail company starts a book club for train commuters; Hindi poet rejects major literary prize; and other news.
Honored poet Lucille Clifton dies at the age of seventy-three after a long battle with cancer and other illnesses; Google may be prepared to make major concessions to book publishers; iBook store titles will come with digital handcuffs; NPR's Three Minute Fiction contest begins; and other news.
Freedom of expression is under seige in Iran; a young German author pushes the boundaries of plagiarism; England's only gay bookstore is in major financial trouble; revealing letters from Salinger are on display; and other news.
The owner of the Indiana Pacers has bought Kirkus Reviews; scholars discover the diary that inspired Faulkner; Scribd is planning a mobile application; a British columnist suggests that an era in American literature is coming to a close; and other news.
Werewolves may usurp vampires as the latest trend in commercial books; Alexandre Dumas may not have written The Three Musketeers; Google files an appeal against an order stopping them from digitizing French books; a Ukrainian writer predicts real-world political events in his novels; and other news.
Barnes & Noble stocks up on Nooks; publishers sit down at Google's bargaining table with some newfound confidence; forensic experts trace bloodstain to nineteenth-century poet; literary bloggers and readers are offended by Bud Light commercial; and other news.
Major British publishers plan to follow Macmillan's lead in e-book pricing; the Authors Guild launches a Web site tracking buy buttons on Amazon; the new war literature is like the old war literature; a major international literary prize gets scrapped; and other news.
Dates have been announced for the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival; Hachette announces plans to join Macmillan in e-book pricing; the Justice Deparment files a brief criticizing the Google Books Settlement; indie bookstores in the U.K. are closing at an astonishing rate; and other news.
Authors take action in Macmillan's fight against Amazon over e-book pricing; Brooklyn, New York, appoints a new poet laureate; Borders' largest shareholder talks about a possible future merger with Barnes & Noble; a British writer combines quantum mechanics and sheep to create poetry; and other news.
Six libraries in Phoenix face closure due to budget cuts; Stanford University signs an agreement with Google; several literary adaptations receive Academy Award nominations; TankBooks puts classic titles into cigarette packs; and other news.
President Obama proposes funding freezes for the NEA and libraries; an investor seeks to become Barnes & Noble's new largest shareholder; agents and authors respond to the Amazon-McMillan dispute over e-book pricing; literary salons return to Baghdad for the first time in decades; and other news.
More details emerge from last week's editorial shake-up at Harper's; a new museum opens in Rudyard Kipling's birth house with one notable absence; a version of Anne Frank's diary is banned from being taught in some Virginia schools; Amazon relents on higher e-book pricing for Macmillan titles; and other news.
J. D. Salinger died on Wednesday at the age of ninety-one; Borders Group lays off 165 corporate employees; New York City's mayor proposes cutting hundreds of library positions; Santa Cruz county appoints its first poet laureate; and other news.
McNally Robinson emerges from bankruptcy protection; New York attorney general announces an investigation into Barnes & Noble's online discount practices; the Google Settlement deadline arrives today amid a chorus of criticism; industry experts speculate on the impact of Apple's iPad on the publishing industry; and other news.
The editor of Harper's has been fired; writer Zhao Shiying was released yesterday in China; three indie bookstores close in Indianapolis; Apple's tablet to be unveiled later today, and other news.
Digital Book World takes place over the next two days in New York; the CEO of Borders Group resigns; dictionaries are removed from classrooms in Southern California schools; Ingram lays off fifty-seven employees; and other news.
Ursula Le Guin launches a petition seeking to exempt the United States from the Google Settlement; a Russian poet is ordered by the government to undergo psychiatric evaluation; the Jaipur Literature Festival showcases a resurgent South Asian literary scene; the last bookstore in Laredo, Texas closes; and other news.
Bloomsbury USA will change the jacket design of Magic Under Glass in response to growing criticism; opinions are still divided over the Google Book Settlement; HarperCollins UK announces a hiring freeze; the National Book Critics Circle elects eight new board members, and other news.
A treasure trove of unseen Franz Kafka manuscripts is released in Israel; Amazon opens the Kindle to third-party apps while Apple meets with publishers; Oregon seeks a new poet laureate; Tariq Ramadan is granted a visa by the Obama administration; and other news.
The twelfth annual Gathering of Fisher Poets takes place this month in Oregon; Amazon plans to increase royalties on discount Kindle books; HarperCollins Digital is launched; a flim about Allen Ginsberg's Howl premieres at Sundance; and other news.
A new study finds that 20 percent of readers switched to e-books last year; Borders plans to throw away tens of thousands of unsold books; the first annual Book Blogger Convention is set for May; HarperCollins is in negotiations to provide content for Apple's tablet; and other news.
The nation's oldest African American bookstore faces foreclosure; the writer and PEN officer Zhao Shiying is detained by the Chinese government; the makers of the Espresso instant book machine announce a partnership with Xerox; the president of PEN Haiti dies in Tuesday's earthquake; and other news.
Harold Bloom cancels classes at Yale due to illness; Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat still awaits news from her family; Houghton Mifflin's parent company restructures its debt again; France proposes a digital book swap with Google; and other news.
