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A collection of first-edition books may sell for twenty million
dollars at auction; Amazon is preparing a new version of the Kindle; Walt Whitman's meteors were real after all; the Calabash literary festival goes off without a hitch despite major violence in Kingston; and other news.
June is National Audiobook Month; North America's oldest gay bookstore is on the brink of closure; Jonathan Karp replaces David Rosenthal as head of Simon & Schuster's adult trade division; the New Yorker's "20 under 40" list is analyzed by the New York Times; and other news.
Liu Xiaobo is moved to a prison in Liaoning, China; Henning Mankell is released by Israeli authorities; the Paris Review launches a daily blog; a literary novelist rakes in the cash with a vampire trilogy; and other news.
Swedish author Henning Mankell is detained in Israel; Dave Eggers takes 826 Valencia to London; the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced; the secret Vatican archives are secret no more; and other news.
The author of Drugstore Cowboy is arrested for (shocker!) allegedly stealing drugs from a pharmacy; Barnes & Noble launches an iPad app; all Target stores are set to sell the Kindle; novelist Jennifer Belle pays forty actresses to read her book in public; and other news.
The Poetry Foundation releases an iPhone app; Burmese poet Saw Wei is released from prison; Joe McGinniss moves in next door to Sarah Palin; children as young as seven are more likely to own a mobile phone than a book; and other news.
New software can detect sarcasm in writing; Barbara Streisand kicks off BEA with Gayle King; ABA announces a partnership with Google; David Remnick is honored at the Author's Guild's annual gala; and other news.
Book sales increased over 16 percent in March; BEA kicks off today in New York City; To Kill a Mockingbird turns fifty; Poetry wins Best Screenplay at Cannes; and other news.
Poets for Living Waters announces a call for poems in response to the oil spill; Borders gets a new chairman; Apple is selling more iPads than Macs; Junot Díaz is elected to the Pulitzer board; and other news.
Melville House celebrates the best and worst book trailers; Ian McEwan responds to the chilly reception his new novel received from American readers; Open Road announces its first original e-book release; Maya Angelou celebrates her eighty-second birthday; and other news.
