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:
Federal District Court judge Denny Chin has approved a request submitted yesterday by Google, the Association of American Publishers, and the Authors Guild to extend the deadline for the revised Google Book Search settlement to Friday, November 13 (New York Times).
Meanwhile, lawyer and literary agent Lynn Chu has posted a series of “questions that authors need to ask themselves” about the controversial Google Book arrangement (WritersReps).
On the book-scanning front in Germany, the National Library and the literary nonprofit VG Wort have suggested a copyright work-around for so-called “orphan works” (Publishing Perspectives).
A teacher at the Bronx School of Finance in New York City has been suspended after assigning the Chuck Palahniuk story “Guts” to his test-prep class (Village Voice).
For independent bookstores in the Milwaukee area, three is apparently a crowd (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
Bailey/Coy Books, Seattle’s twenty-six-year-old indie landmark, is going out of business by the end of the month (Publicola).
Has British bookselling fixture Waterstone’s lost its soul? (Guardian)
In France, top-notch independent booksellers can now qualify for the government’s Librairie Indépendante de Référence (“Recommended Independent Bookshop”) designation (Publishing Perspectives).
In what was reportedly an attempt to allay concerns about its e-book business, Amazon flew a group of literary agents to a series of meetings at its Seattle headquarters last week (Crain’s New York Business).
