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Barnes & Noble rejects a billionaire investor's takeover bid; the Academy of American Poets launches an iPhone app; a British rail company starts a book club for train commuters; Hindi poet rejects major literary prize; and other news.
Honored poet Lucille Clifton dies at the age of seventy-three after a long battle with cancer and other illnesses; Google may be prepared to make major concessions to book publishers; iBook store titles will come with digital handcuffs; NPR's Three Minute Fiction contest begins; and other news.
Freedom of expression is under seige in Iran; a young German author pushes the boundaries of plagiarism; England's only gay bookstore is in major financial trouble; revealing letters from Salinger are on display; and other news.
The owner of the Indiana Pacers has bought Kirkus Reviews; scholars discover the diary that inspired Faulkner; Scribd is planning a mobile application; a British columnist suggests that an era in American literature is coming to a close; and other news.
Werewolves may usurp vampires as the latest trend in commercial books; Alexandre Dumas may not have written The Three Musketeers; Google files an appeal against an order stopping them from digitizing French books; a Ukrainian writer predicts real-world political events in his novels; and other news.
Barnes & Noble stocks up on Nooks; publishers sit down at Google's bargaining table with some newfound confidence; forensic experts trace bloodstain to nineteenth-century poet; literary bloggers and readers are offended by Bud Light commercial; and other news.
Major British publishers plan to follow Macmillan's lead in e-book pricing; the Authors Guild launches a Web site tracking buy buttons on Amazon; the new war literature is like the old war literature; a major international literary prize gets scrapped; and other news.
Dates have been announced for the 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival; Hachette announces plans to join Macmillan in e-book pricing; the Justice Deparment files a brief criticizing the Google Books Settlement; indie bookstores in the U.K. are closing at an astonishing rate; and other news.
Authors take action in Macmillan's fight against Amazon over e-book pricing; Brooklyn, New York, appoints a new poet laureate; Borders' largest shareholder talks about a possible future merger with Barnes & Noble; a British writer combines quantum mechanics and sheep to create poetry; and other news.
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.
