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Annual E-book Sales Near $1 Billion, Swiss Juice Poetry, and More [1]

11.10.10

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:

A new report predicts that e-book sales will not quite breach one billion dollars in 2010, but most certainly will in 2011. It's worth noting that e-book sales in 2009 were around $170 million, according to Jacket Copy [2].

A group of Swiss indie publishers have teamed up with a juice maker to feature poems, short stories, and book excerpts on juice bottle labels. (Publishing Perspectives [3])

Cambridge University Press partnered with Book Aid International [4] to donate a hundred thousand books to schools in Sub-Saharan Africa . (Press Release [5])

Random House has launched a literary Web site for film lovers, wordandfilms.com [6], that explores the "intersection of books, movies, and television." (Publishers Weekly [7])

Thirty-year-old Canadian author Johanna Skibsrud has won the country's most prestigious fiction prize for her debut novel, The Sentimentalists, which was published by small indie outfit Gaspereau Press. (Star [8])

Rebecca Skloot won the forty-thousand-dollar Wellcome Book Prize for her nonfiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. (Telegraph [9])

Library Journal [10] announced its first ever top ten list of the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year.

Celebrated Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu died on Friday at the age of sixty-seven, "and the nation immediately went into mourning for the larger-than-life poet," NPR [11] reports. Thousands gathered on Sunday for his funeral, which was nationally televised. "God loved the Romanian people so much that he gave us this volcano of a man. . .who was born for poetry that flowed from his brilliant mind," said one national commentator and friend.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/annual_ebook_sales_swiss_juice_poetry_and_more [2] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/11/ebook-sales-headed-for-1-billion.html [3] http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/11/indie-swiss-pubs-promote-books-on-juice-bottle-labels/ [4] http://www.bookaid.org/cms.cgi/site/ [5] http://www.bookaid.org/resources/downloads/news/CUP.pdf [6] http://www.wordandfilm.com/ [7] http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/page-to-screen/article/45123-rh-launches-literary-site-for-film-buffs.html [8] http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/888415--johanna-skibsrud-wins-the-coveted-giller-for-the-sentimentalists [9] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8121190/Rebecca-Skloot-wins-25000-Wellcome-Book-Prize-for-story-of-cancer-victim.html [10] http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887637-264/library_journal_announces_inaugural_top.html.csp [11] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131140994