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Kirkus Reviews Closing, Apple Tablet Expected by April, and More [1]

by
Adrian Versteegh
12.11.09

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:

Apple is expected to take on the e-reader market next year with a 10.1-inch tablet device (Reuters [2]).

Over the objections of Amazon, HarperCollins and Macmillan have joined other major publishers in instituting a lag between the release of hardcover and e-book editions for certain titles (New York Times [3]).

Kirkus Reviews [4] and newspaper industry mag Editor & Publisher will be shut down by the end of the month, the Nielsen Company revealed yesterday (New York Times [5]).

British firm Interead has announced that its COOL-ER e-reader will be updated with wireless connectivity in mid-2010 (SlashGear [6]).

Faced with a choice between moving and closure, the Elliott Bay Book Company is relocating this spring to Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood (Seattle Times [7]).

A rich crop of transnational collaborations is expected next year from alumni of the “Word Express,” a recently concluded project that saw twenty young European writers journeying across the continent by train (Telegraph [8]).

A private school in Toronto is giving up its traditional textbooks for Sony e-readers (Publishers Weekly [9]).

Self-publishing company Author Solutions has announced a new online service that will allow writers to print and distribute their work through the Espresso Book Machine (Press Release [10]).


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/kirkus_reviews_closing_apple_tablet_expected_april_and_more [2] http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0923183720091209?type=marketsNews [3] http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/publishers-delay-e-book-releases/ [4] http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/index.jsp [5] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/business/media/11nielsen.html [6] http://www.slashgear.com/cool-er-ebook-reader-getting-att-3g-and-wifi-in-mid-2010-1065628/ [7] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010467342_elliottbay10.html [8] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6728945/A-Stamboul-Train-full-of-writers.html [9] http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6710230.html [10] http://www.prweb.com/releases/Author_Solutions/Espresso_Book_Machine/prweb3321064.htm