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:
Responding to the various mass-scale digitization projects already underway, the European Commission has announced that it may seek to harmonize rights management and compensation regulations among its twenty-seven member nations (Associated Press).
Taiwanese firm AU Optronics has unveiled a series of flexible “e-paper” displays, including a six-inch model that can be folded like a real book (TG Daily).
Bus passengers on last Saturday’s fourth annual “Philip Roth Tour” through Newark, New Jersey, were joined by an unexpected guest: Roth himself (Star-Ledger).
Author Maurice Sendak has some choice words for anyone worried that the film adaptation of his classic Where the Wild Things Are may be too frightening for children (Guardian).
The Pasadena Museum of California Art kicks off its first reading series tomorrow night with an appearance by National Book Award nominee Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Los Angeles Times).
Visitors to the Barnes & Noble Web site have probably already noticed the pre-order page for the company’s Nook e-reader—unveiled yesterday at an event in New York City—but it turns out that the device won’t ship until late November (New York Times).
The organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair have sacked the employee who tried to uninvite two Chinese dissidents and later prevented the pair from speaking at the fair’s closing ceremony (Deutsche Welle).
The American Booksellers Foundation, the Association of American Publishers, the Freedom to Read Foundation, and several other groups are challenging an Ohio law they say threatens free speech online (Associated Press).
