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ALA Updates Google Guide, Smashwords to Supply Kindle Titles, and More [1]

by
Adrian Versteegh
11.24.09

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

The American Library Association has expanded its guide to the Google Book Search settlement with an eleven-page section covering recent changes to the deal (Library Journal [2]).

Self-publishing service Smashwords will begin shipping e-books to Amazon’s Kindle store tomorrow, with the titles expected to be ready for sale by December (Press Release [3]).

Financial straits have forced Arizona’s award-winning Prescott Valley Public Library to “borrow” employees from other municipal departments (Library Journal [4]).

In other Arizona news, the publisher of the Mesa-based East Valley Tribune—scheduled to close this year after its owner filed for bankruptcy—says an unidentified buyer could save the paper (Associated Press [5]).

Britain’s Publishers Association is supporting a legislative proposal for more stringent file-sharing and digital copyright regulations (Bookseller [6]). 

Author Steve Almond will appear at the Harvard Book Store on December 2 to read from his new book of writing advice, This Won’t Take but a Minute, Honey, which is being published exclusively through Harvard’s Espresso Book Machine (Press Release [7]).

After a successful one-year trial, Washington’s Pierce County Library System and the Tacoma Public Library have formalized a reciprocal borrowing program (Library Journal [8]).

A rare first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species—discovered after four decades in a bathroom bookcase—is expected to sell at auction this week for about $100,000 (Independent [9]).


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/ala_updates_google_guide_smashwords_supply_kindle_titles_and_more [2] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6708553.html [3] http://www.rttnews.com/ViewPR.aspx?PrID=510835&SMap=1 [4] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6708269.html [5] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_east_valley_tribune_closing [6] http://www.thebookseller.com/news/103645-pa-welcomes-digital-economy-bill.html [7] http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2420 [8] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6708271.html [9] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/rare-darwin-book-found-on-toilet-bookcase-1825928.html