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:

Canadian-based e-bookseller Kobo will follow Amazon's lead [2] and create a publishing division. (CBC News)

Meanwhile, charging them with discriminatory shipping practices, the Puerto Rican government may sue Amazon [3]. (Shelf Awareness)

Reversing the national trend of staffing cuts and diminishing books coverage in newspapers, the Chicago Tribune is planning a standalone books section [4], at an extra charge. (Crain's)

A few nights ago a host of leading writers—including Walter Kirn, Steve Martin, Rita Dove, and Amy Tan [5]—gathered at a Chinese restaurant in New York City, not for a reading or panel discussion, but for a poker tournament. (Paris Review)

At the New York Public Library, e-book lending [6] increased 81 percent last year. (Los Angeles Times)

With the recent paperback release of Letters to Monica, the poet Philip Larkin's correspondence [7] with his companion Monica Jones, Standpoint Magazine gleans what's to be learned from the poet's letters: "Every now & then I open the little trap door in my head & look in to see if the hideous roaring panic & misery has died down. It hasn't, & I don't see why it should."

University of California computer scientist Kevin Knight, together with colleagues in Sweden, used modern translation software to decipher a German text written in secret code, the Copiale Cipher [8], which has baffled scientists since its discovery. (Wired)

USA Today reports profanity in best-selling book titles is a growing trend [9]. And they're not f&*%$ing kidding.