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:

According to an Amazon press release [2], Kindle downloads beat out total print sales for the first time on Christmas Day (Mashable [3]).

“Noughtyisms”: Word-collector Adam Jacot de Boinod has compiled a list of the decade’s best neologisms (Guardian [4]).

In a potentially policy-changing reversal, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has agreed to fund interim public library services while rebuilding is underway in flood-ravaged Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Library Journal [5]).

William Lucey III will take over as publisher of Rhode Island’s Newport Daily News when Albert Sherman Jr. retires this week (Associated Press [6]).

Academics, editors, and lawyers are set to conduct a comprehensive review of Britain’s controversial libel laws (Guardian [7]).

After closing more than two years ago, four libraries in Josephine County, Oregon, have been reopened—although at reduced hours—by a local nonprofit organization (Library Journal [8]).

In the seventh annual study of its kind by Central Connecticut State University, Seattle has edged out Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh as the country’s most literate city (USA Today [9]).

International literature blog Three Percent [10] has released its 2009 translation statistics.