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Over Seven Million iPads Sold in Six Months, Tweeting Gone With the Wind, and More [1]

10.19.10

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:

An indie bookstore in New Zealand, inspired by the Harvard Book Store's same-day-delivery pledge, has taken to delivering books about town on a 1950s-era butcher's bicycle. (Stuff [2])

HTML Giant [3] has launched a Literary Magazine Club (er, like a book club, but with a slightly different focus). The club's first selection will be the latest issue of New York Tyrant.

Editor & Publisher, a highly regarded industry publication having a tough year—the magazine briefly closed its doors in early 2010 before finding a new owner—has now replaced its entire editorial staff. (Jacket Copy [4])

Apple has sold nearly 7.5 million iPads since the U.S. launch in April. (Bookseller [5])

The Georgetown library reopened yesterday after being destroyed by a fire three years ago. (Washington Post [6])

Forty thousand people bought eighty thousand books a day at the fifteenth annual Texas Book Festival last week. (Dallas Morning News [7])

Novelist and conceptual poet Vanessa Place is tweeting [8] the entirety of the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. (via Harriet [9])

November is National Novel Writing Month [10], and Wired [11] has a tutorial on how to write a novel in thirty days.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/over_seven_million_ipads_sold_in_six_months_tweeting_gone_with_the_wind_and_more [2] http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/4248427/Bookstore-revives-bike-deliveries/ [3] http://htmlgiant.com/literary-magazine-club/lmc-and-so-we-begin/ [4] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/editor-publisher-magazine-replaces-editorial-staff.html [5] http://www.thebookseller.com/news/131498-apple-ipad-sales-top-7m-in-six-months.html [6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/17/AR2010101703524.html [7] http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bookfest_1018gd.ART0.State.Edition1.3321940.html [8] http://twitter.com/VanessaPlace [9] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/10/wind-the-with-gone/ [10] http://www.nanowrimo.org/ [11] http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Write_a_Novel_in_a_Month