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:
A fictional character from the TV show Mad Men will soon publish a memoir in the real, non-TV world. (Guardian)
A German author has developed an iPad application that expands the possibilities of interactive e-books, including something called a "round book," which has no ending. (CNN)
In good news for print books, a new survey found that 74 percent of college students still prefer the old-fashioned black-and-white paper titles to their digital siblings. (Publishers Weekly)
The Telegraph has signed on to sponsor the Hay Festival, Britain's premier literary festival, for the next three years.
Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez will soon publish his first book in six years, a collection of speeches, and is also reportedly putting the finishing touches on a new novel. (AFP)
Melville House Publishing, which releases acclaimed titles in translation, has pulled out of the Best Translated Book awards after learning that Amazon will underwrite this year's prize, with Melville founder Dennis Johnson "likening taking money from Amazon to 'medical researchers who take money from cigarette companies.'" (Bookseller)
Stephen King made eighty thousand dollars from the novella Ur, which was published exclusively on the Kindle last year, after apparently only working on it for three days. (Wall Street Journal)
A winner has been declared in the LeBron James poetry contest. (Miami Herald)
What makes a poem worth reading? (Atlantic)
