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 trailer for the hugely anticipated film adaptation of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas reached the public prematurely this morning, and has since been removed. Indiewire calls it "staggeringly ambitious." [2]

In light of recent developments in the Justice Department's antitrust suit, industry veteran Mike Shatzkin predicts the future [3] of the e-book marketplace. (Shatzkin Files)

Random House is launching a television division [4] to develop adaptations based on its titles for the small screen. The new media partnership is an extension of its film unit, which it created in 2005. (Publishers Weekly)

FastPencil, a self-publishing company, is offering authors potential access [5] to Barnes & Noble shelves, and merchandising features on the Nook. (paidContent)

Atticus Books wants your rejections letters [6].

"He was six foot five, weighed well over two hundred pounds and had a stentorian voice cultivated by his career as a basso profundo." The New York Times looks at the life of novelist Vladimir Nabokov's “best translator,” [7] his son, Dmitri.

GQ lists the five books everyone should read this summer [8], including The World Without You by Joshua Henkin, and Gillian Flynn's bestselling Gone Girl.

"I had been a great admirer of your books for quite a time [9] and had always wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial 'really good' science-fiction movie." Today is Stanley Kubrick's birthday. (Letters of Note)