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:
Critics of the Google Book Search settlement filed a letter with the court last week complaining that the rules and timeline governing objections to the still-unresolved deal are unfairly stringent (Publishers Weekly).
Barnes & Noble is partnering with software firm Adobe to support the “standardization” of the ePub and PDF e-book formats (Press Release).
More than a year after it was first commissioned, a government review of Britain’s library system is expected to be released next month (Bookseller).
Forward-thinking librarians in the U.K. have begun including e-books among their public offerings, and some are witnessing a surge in patronage (Telegraph).
In other library news, a multimillion-dollar injection of federal stimulus cash is helping the expansion of one of Toronto’s largest libraries (Globe and Mail). Eight hundred miles away, the government is also lending a hand in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the city is planning to triple the size of its central library with a new LEED-certified building (Library Journal). Meanwhile, a collective called Libraries Nova Scotia—which comprises all public and academic libraries in the province—has launched a free “Borrow Anywhere, Return Anywhere” program (Library Journal).
Sticking to the Maritimes, the long-lost final volume in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series is set to be released tomorrow (CBC). The saga’s heroine is also the subject of a controversial new art exhibit on religion and torture, which depicts the fictional martyrdom of famous figures (CBC).
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that the Kindle is now his company’s best-selling item (AFP).
Suspicious that he might be a Cuban agent, Mexico’s spy service kept tabs on Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez for decades, according to newly declassified files (Guardian).
