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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.
The twelfth annual Gathering of Fisher Poets takes place this month in Oregon; Amazon plans to increase royalties on discount Kindle books; HarperCollins Digital is launched; a flim about Allen Ginsberg's Howl premieres at Sundance; and other news.
A new study finds that 20 percent of readers switched to e-books last year; Borders plans to throw away tens of thousands of unsold books; the first annual Book Blogger Convention is set for May; HarperCollins is in negotiations to provide content for Apple's tablet; and other news.
The nation's oldest African American bookstore faces foreclosure; the writer and PEN officer Zhao Shiying is detained by the Chinese government; the makers of the Espresso instant book machine announce a partnership with Xerox; the president of PEN Haiti dies in Tuesday's earthquake; and other news.
Harold Bloom cancels classes at Yale due to illness; Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat still awaits news from her family; Houghton Mifflin's parent company restructures its debt again; France proposes a digital book swap with Google; and other news.
A new Chinese literary agency is attracting top talent; Random House and EA Sports announce a new version of Dante's Inferno; the NEA's latest survey reports a decline in poetry readers; the Lambda Literary Foundation appoints an executive director; and other news.
Paulo Coelho signs a worldwide distribution deal with Amazon's Kindle store; GalleyCat reviews launches January 25; the top book publisher in Cypris is killed; and other news.
