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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.
