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The ABA and ABC announce a possible merger; Wikipedia launches a custom book-making feature; the New York Public Library gets some help from a skateboarding dog; an Irish author dies in the Libyan plane crash; and other news.
Matt Damon stars in the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation; 2010 has been a great year for poetry from university presses; the annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering kicks off later this month; PCWorld takes a closer look at Google Editions; and other news.
Truman Capote's Brooklyn residence is up for sale; blind poet Tato Laviera finds a home; Quirk Books moves to Random House; the New Yorker will publish a list of the best twenty writers under forty; and other news.
Google Editions reportedly has the backing of nearly all U.S. publishers; an Australian physicist finds a ninety-nine-year-old error in the Oxford English Dictionary; New Jersey scholars champion poetry therapy; a German publisher finds a new use for cigarette vending machines; and other news.
Borders enters the e-reader market; reports of censorship at the Tehran
Book Fair emerge; Jamaica's Calabash Literary Festival prepares to
celebrate ten years; the Guardian explores the globalization of
English; and other news.
Barnes & Noble is sued by one of its investors; a film adaptation of Kerouac's On the Road is set to film this summer; two literary festivals close in Jerusalem; Open Road starts a Twitter account for William Styron; and other news.
A rock band of academics releases a literature-themed album; Macmillan admits to bribing a Sudanese official over a publishing contract; a San Francisco nonprofit launches an initiative to serve visually impaired readers; and other news.
HarperCollins reports a boost in profits; the Los Angeles Public Library faces major budget cuts; Google announces plans to sell digital books; a candidate for U.K. prime minister attempts to trade on his love of Samuel Beckett; and other news.
Apple reports selling a milllion iPads; Kent State offers Peace Stanzas on the fortieth anniversary of its campus shootings; Nikki Giovanni pledges her copyrights to Virginia Tech; a Portland, Oregon, bookstore and all its contents are destroyed by a fire; and other news.
