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Microsoft Partners with Barnes and Noble, Orhan Pamuk's Novel Museum, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
4.30.12

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:

Barnes and Noble has combined its Nook, digital, and college business into a new subsidiary [2], with a three hundred million dollar investment from Microsoft, which gives the software giant a 17 percent ownership in the new company, and allows Microsoft to sell Nook e-books through an application for Windows 8. (Bookseller)

David Carr details how a scuffle between Apple and Amazon [3] caused author Buzz Bissinger's Byliner-produced e-book, After Friday Night Lights, removal from Amazon. (New York Times)

The Los Angeles Times looks at the mission and challenges of the Los Angeles Review of Books [4]—the online publication has garnered much praise, ranging from Ira Silverberg at the National Endowment for the Arts to Slate's Dan Kois, and recently received a twenty-five thousand dollar grant from Amazon.

Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has created a museum based on his 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence [5]. “As far as I know this is the first museum based on a novel,” he said. “But it’s not that I wrote a novel that turned out to be successful and then I thought of a museum. No, I conceived the novel and the museum together.” (New York Times)

Best-selling novelist Stephen King parses the loudest arguments over our nation's tax laws [6]: "Chris Christie may be fat, but he ain’t Santa Claus." (Daily Beast)

Submittable's blog considers Josiah Wedgwood [7], and what can be gleaned from the eighteenth-century pottery innovator about the current state of self-publishing.

New York Times magazine's Joel Lovell explains why you should go buy the Spring 2012 Paris Review [8] (its two hundredth issue), and while you're at it, get the Missouri Review too.

A Kickstarter campaign has launched to fund a documentary featuring conservationist and Pulitzer prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin [9].

Poet Sean Bishop reveals the Herculean tasks literary editors face when selecting work for publication [10], and asks, "Can there be a vocabulary for mystery? How does one defend, with words, what seems un-nameable?" (Ploughshares)


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/microsoft_partners_with_barnes_and_noble_orhan_pamuks_novel_museum_and_more [2] http://www.thebookseller.com/news/significant-expansion-nook-microsoft-invests-%24300m.html [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/business/media/byliner-takes-buzz-bissingers-e-book-off-amazon.html [4] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-book-larb-20120428,0,862402.story [5] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/orhan-pamuk-opens-museum-based-on-his-novel-in-istanbul.html [6] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html [7] http://blog.submittable.com/2012/04/josiah-wedgwood-and-the-short-sightedness-of-self-publishing/ [8] http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/go-buy-the-200th-issue-of-the-paris-review/ [9] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/899143556/even-though-the-whole-world-is-burning [10] http://blog.pshares.org/2012/04/30/gatekeepers-part-three-on-comparing-apples-to-desperate-near-extinct-marsupials-braving-the-pacific-in-coconut-dinghies/