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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.
