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:

As Publishers Weekly [2] reported yesterday, publishers are more than a little reluctant to resume normal buying terms with Borders despite the company's plans to reorganize and continue operations. "They owed us a lot of money and refused to pay,” one publishing executive told the trade publication. “It will take a lot of convincing to work with them again. We are waiting to hear what they have to say.”

SmartCompany [3] has ten lessons we can learn from the downfall of Borders and Angus & Robertson in Australia.

Australian actress Poppy Montgomery is slated to play J. K. Rowling in a forthcoming unofficial made-for-TV biopic of the author called Strange Magic. (Sydney Morning Herald [4])

As readers in the U.K. fight to save their libraries, what books do they borrow the most? The Guardian [5] has a list [6] of the most borrowed books of 2010.

Don't like the iPad? You're not the only one. (Slate [7])

Using the hometown example of Powell's Books, which recently announced the layoffs of thirty-one employees, the Oregonian [8] explored the realities for indie bookstores as they seek a lasting place in the new digital landscape.

A family maid who shares the same name as the principal character in The Help is suing the book's author, Kathryn Stockett, whose brother and sister-in-law have employed her for the last dozen years, for "an unauthorized appropriation of her name and image." (New York Times [9])

Has the fine art of line-by-line book editing become a casualty of the demand for publicity and sales? (Guardian [10])