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:

In a court ruling, the Authors Guild lost its class action status [2] in its bid to stop Google from creating a digital archive of millions of library books. (Publishers Weekly)

Amazon was granted a patent [3] for customized “supplemental content” for its e-books. (Wired)

Zeljka Marosevic details what it was like to work for Victoria Barnsley [4], who announced yesterday she is leaving HarperCollins. (Melville House)

Amit Majmudar describes how he reads the work of Byron in his dreams [5]. (Kenyon Review)

The Newsstand, a pop-up shop occupying a retail space in a Brooklyn [6] subway station, is selling indy books and ’zines until July 20. (New York Times)

Slate features a coded World War I postcard written by poet Wilfred Owen to his mother in 1917 [7].

Ted Scheinman reports from the first annual Jane Austen Summer Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “I’ve got all these smelling salts and no one to revive [8].” (Paris Review Daily)