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BEA announces a major new panel; the judge in the Google Book Settlement gets a promotion; the Academy of American Poets annual gala takes place in New York; today is possibly Shakespeare's birthday; and other news.
Barnes & Noble takes the e-reader battle to broadcast television; the FBI is investigating fraud at Naropa University; the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicks off on Saturday; Earth Day reflections from a descendant of Henry David Thoreau; and other news.
Book publishers turn to BEA and Frankfurt after the volcano disrupts LBF; another Chinese PEN member is banned from travel; Narrative Magazine develops an iPhone app; a City Lights employee celebrates forty years at the bookshop; and other news.
Emily Dickinson's garden is recreated in the New York Botanical Garden; three nominees emerge for the Oxford poetry professorship; the PEN World Voices Festival gets an iPhone app; Oregon's innovative celebration of National Poetry Month; and other news.
Princeton University and the country of Israel ban iPads; Mark Twain's margin notes can now be perused in Connecticut; George Washington has some overdue library books; Marc Jacobs opens a bookstore; and other news.
The London Book Fair is facing disruptions because of the Icelandic ash cloud; the EU president publishes a book of haiku; titles by Alice Walker and Harper Lee make this year's most challenged books list; the London Review of Books celebrates thirty years in print; and other news.
Arundhati Roy is investigated for links to Maoist insurgents in India; the PEN American Center honors an imprisoned Burmese blogger; the Library of Congress will archive all public tweets; Apple delays the worldwide release of the iPad; and other news.
Bantam Dell and Ballantine merge at Random House; Chile decides against naming its main airport after Pablo Neruda; Goldman Sachs predicts a jump in book sales; Spring Design launches the Alex eReader; and other news.
Chalk a couple up for the small publishers; a nonprofit literacy group could lose its federal financing; Amazon is approved for a Canadian distribution center; Glenn Beck "inspires" haiku; and other news.
Meet the iPad's forthcoming competitors; England sees a resurgance of radical bookshops; faculty salary increases are at a fifty-year low; Boston may soon close four library branches; and other news.
