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:

The Authors Guild lawsuit against Google took a blow—a New York judge ruled that libraries that offered books for scanning are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine [2]. (Ars Technica)

In light of this morning's announcement that Mo Yan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature [3], the New Yorker revisits the late John Updike's take on the Chinese novelist [4].

And with international authors in the news, the Atlantic Wire offers a skewed map of the world—based on book publishing [5].

Carolyn Kellogg has the skinny on Amazon's new feature: Author Rank [6]. (Los Angeles Times)

The film adaptation of Fifty Shades Of Grey has been assigned a screenwriter, and it's not Bret Easton Ellis [7]. (New York Observer)

Txtr, an electronics company in Germany, has unveiled a new e-reader called the Beagle, with a price tag of thirteen dollars [8]. (Huffington Post)

Sarah Marian Seltzer describes the experience of modeling for seven hundred Jane Austen enthusiasts [9] at the recent Jane Austen Society gathering in New York City. (Hairpin)

With Halloween approaching, GalleyCat rounded up a selection of favorite literary costumes [10].