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Amazon Executives Testify in DOJ E-Book Lawsuit, State of the Library, and More [1]

by
Evan Smith Rakoff
6.7.13

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:

Amazon executives have testified in the Department of Justice e-book pricing lawsuit, which is attempting to prove Apple colluded with major publishers [2] in 2010. (GalleyCat)

In Norway, the Bible is selling more copies than the E. L. James [3] juggernaut Fifty Shades of Grey. (Christian Science Monitor)

A library similar to the Occupy Wall Street Library that existed in New York City has arisen amidst protests in Turkey [4]. (Book Patrol)

Famed multi-genre author Judy Blume recently spoke with Vanity Fair [5]about the process of adapting her book Tiger Eyes for film.

Justin Alvarez examines the state of the modern library, including a new facility in North Carolina [6] where books are only retrievable by a robotic system. (Ploughshares)

Brain Pickings looks at a letter the young Edna St. Vincent Millay composed in 1917 [7] that almost stopped her from college graduation.

The Los Angeles Review of Books gathered four F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars [8]—Caleb Smith, Wai Chee Dimock, T. Austin Graham, and John Irwin—and gleaned their thoughts about the new screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/amazon_state_of_the_library_and_more [2] http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/amazon-executives-testify-in-ebook-price-fixing-case_b71854 [3] http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2013/0607/Norway-s-hot-new-title-The-Bible-now-outselling-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey?cmpid=addthis_twitter#.UbHst_Nkvdc.twitter [4] http://www.bookpatrol.net/2013/06/occupy-style-library-rises-in-istanbul.html#.UbHuBevfZT4 [5] http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/06/judy-blume-tiger-eyes-film [6] http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/the-infinite-library/ [7] http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/06/june-6-1917-edna-st-vincent-millay-graduation/ [8] http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1736&fulltext=1&media=#article-text-cutpoint