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Keith Richard and Jay-Z are set to give talks at the NYPL; Barnes & Noble launches another volley against investor Ron Burkle; the new Kindle is "almost ridiculously lightweight"; the PEN American Center announces support for the Park51 Community Center project; and other news.
Random House and the Wylie Agency make nice; the only Yiddish bookstore in New York City loses its home; iBooks may soon include iAds; writing a novel in three days; and other news.
The Faber Academy opens its Toronto campus; Seth Godin ditches traditional publishing, again; the chestnut tree from Anne Frank's diary falls in a storm; Seattle libraries close for a week due to a budget shortfall; and other news.
The University of Virginia's president orders a review into VQR's operations; e-book sales increase 119 percent in June; President Obama gets an advanced copy of Franzen's Freedom; Google's net neutrality policy and the book settlement; and other news.
Forbes publishes a list of the ten top-earning authors; James Franco writes about portraying Allen Ginsberg; Jane Austen's manuscripts are on display at the British Library; Ricky Martin pens a memoir; and other news.
Betty White signs a two-book deal at age eighty-eight; the new Oxford English Dictionary introduces two thousand new words and phrases; David James Duncan's The River Why gets a film adaptation; Durham University offers a course on Harry Potter; and other news.
Sixteen authors sue an Indiana self-publishing company; Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler gets the stage treatment; a fan of Into the Wild dies on a pilgrimage to Alaska; the Blind Boys of Alabama take on Sophocles in Scotland; and other news.
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.
