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E-books Outsell Print on Christmas, Seattle Named Most Literate City, and More [1]

by
Adrian Versteegh
12.29.09

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:

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.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/ebooks_outsell_print_christmas_seattle_named_most_literate_city_and_more [2] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1369429&highlight= [3] http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/kindle-ebook-sales/ [4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/15/best-words-of-the-decade [5] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6712896.html [6] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_newport_publisher_retires [7] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/27/jack-straw-review-libel-law [8] http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6712703.html [9] http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-12-21-literate-cities_N.htm [10] http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=2419&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThreePercent-Article+%28Three+Percent%29