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:

According to a report from the Association of American Publishers (AAP), print sales are down [2]—despite increasing e-book sales a revenue gap remains. (GalleyCat)

With the Academy Awards behind us, the A.V. Club lists fifteen unsuccessful film adaptations of hard-to-adapt books [3].

In case you're about to journey to the upcoming AWP conference in Chicago, don't forget to pack your official 2012 bingo card [4] (created by Daniel Nester).

Meanwhile, one block away from the AWP conference at the Hilton, the Examiner reports of a shake-up at the Columbia College Chicago writing program [5].

Writer Dinty W. Moore weighs in on the controversy surrounding the new book by John D’Agata [6] and Jim Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact. (Brevity)

Graywolf Press announced a new publishing collaboration [7] with literary and culture magazine A Public Space. Brigid Hughes, founding editor of A Public Space, will act as contributing editor to Graywolf Press, and Graywolf will publish two A Public Space titles a year.

Open Road, the digital publisher co-founded by industry-veteran Jane Friedman, has reached an agreement with Ingram [8] to distribute printed versions of its e-books. (Shelf Awareness)

The Big Think examines how new generations of readers respond to J. D. Salinger's infamous Holden Caulfield [9].

On her website, author Dani Shapiro shares her thoughts on the writing life [10]: "I write because, when I don't, I feel not-quite-alive, at a remove from everything and everyone I love. I don't write because I enjoy it. I don't write because it's fun. Honestly, it's so rarely fun."