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:

Since the iPad launched on Saturday, over 450,000 iPads have been sold along with 600,000 iBooks, according to Steve Jobs. (Mashable [2]) In related news, Apple announced that the iBookstore will soon be coming to the iPhone. (Forbes [3]) 

Yan Martel, whose third novel, Beatrice and Virgil, is being published this month by Spiegel & Grau, received a nice note from President Obama about how much he and his daughter liked his 2001 novel, Life of Pi. (Winnipeg Free Press [4])

The Chinese media is currently restricted from writing anything about Google, which is bad news for one author who was planning to promote his book about the company on a Chinese book tour next month. (Telegraph [5])

Oprah Winfrey may launch a book club program on her new television network, OWN. (Wall Street Journal [6])

Digitimes [7] is reporting that Apple is expected to launch a smaller version of the iPad early next year. (Er, isn't that already called an iPod Touch?)

A bunch of "saucy chapbooks" from the eighteenth century were recently discovered in the library of an old British farming family. (Guardian [8]) 

Newsweek [9] wonders if the Library of America is about to jump the shark. 

Wired [10] shows you how to start your own e-book factory for about twenty bucks. 

Are you sure you're ready to publish that novel? (National Post [11])