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:

Random House and the Wylie Agency have released a joint statement ending their dispute over e-book rights for classic titles. The publisher announced that it now holds the rights to e-book editions of thirteen books that Wylie had begun publishing last month. As a result, Random House and Wylie have resumed normal business relations. (New York Times [2])

A new study of e-reader owners found that 40 percent read more than when they read print books. (Wall Street Journal [3])

E-books purchased in Apple's iBookstore may soon include iAds. "If you flip to page forty of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, you may be served an iAd instead of page forty-one." (CNET [4])

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who read his poems to a crowd of 42,000 people in Russia last week, will read his poems in their original Russian tonight in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (Cape Cod Times [5]) 

The only Yiddish bookstore in New York City is losing its home on East 21st Street. (New York Times [6])

The International Three-Day Novel Contest takes place in early September, and the Millions [7] has some diary excerpts from one of last year's contestants.

After the recent recall of 450 million eggs potentially tainted with salmonella, the Christian Science Monitor [8] has compiled "five books that help to place the egg recall in context."  

Check out these astonishing candid photos of people reading books in various corners of the world (Part 1 [9] and Part 2 [10]). The photos were all taken by internationally renowned photographer Steve McCurry. (via Publishing Perspectives [11])

The Today show ran a segment on VQR and the recent suicide of Kevin Morrissey. (via Harriet [12])