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:
Borders has a $42.5 million loan due this week, with Business Week reporting that the retailer is "close to arranging financing that would allow it to repay."
In a move announced at the Paris Book Fair, "Gallimard and two other French publishers plan to sue Google for scanning books without prior permission." (Bookseller)
The Indy Star checks in on the thriving spoken word scene in Indianapolis.
More than two months after the devastating earthquake took an immeasurable human toll on the country, the Huffington Post looks into the state of Haiti's libraries, many of which were reduced to rubble and "are now being washed away by unusually heavy spring rains."
After a bewildering line of questioning from one Italian reporter, Philip Roth uncovered a series of articles by another Italian journalist who "had hit upon a way of selling articles by attributing anti-Obama sentiments to famous American writers." (New Yorker)
According to an e-mail leak from Smashwords, Apple is dictating e-book pricing to publishers "based on the price of the print equivalent." (Bookseller)
Online self-publisher Author Solutions struck a Kindle distribution deal with Amazon. (Publishers Weekly)
Sylvia Plath's daughter comes to the defense of Ted Hughes. (Australian)
Though it is Ireland's largest trade publisher, Penguin Ireland sold a grand total of one hundred e-books in 2009. (Irish Publishing News)
