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:

Future Book examines Amazon’s pricing strategies, and states that if Amazon is at war with the publishing industry, as some claim, then Amazon is at war with everyone [2].

Meanwhile, tomorrow President Obama will deliver a speech at an Amazon warehouse [3] in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Shelf Awareness)

“The company hasn’t announced its plans yet, but it will probably sell the e-reader business or shut it down. [4]” Business Week looks at the future of Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media.

Novelist Margo Rabb plumbs the experience of meeting literary heroes [5]. (New York Times)

Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell’s next book will be The Reason I Jump, a memoir concerning autism by Naoki Higashida [6] that Mitchell and his wife K. A. Yoshida translated from Japanese. (Huffington Post)

The Atlantic asked several authors—including David Gilbert, Mona Simpson, and Roxane Gay [7]—to name their all-time favorite first lines.

Scientific American looks at the link between creativity and eccentricity [8].

Gary Shteyngart braves being called a “glasshole” and tests out Google Glass [9]. (New Yorker)