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Electric Literature is hosting a Twitter contest; Scottish booksellers protest "bullying" tactics by Amazon; another Chinese poet is banned from traveling to an academic conference; Philip Pullman defends his controversial new book; and other news.
Andrew Motion reveals plans to write a sequel to Treasure Island; President Obama visits a bookstore in Iowa City; Apple's iBooks pricing may match Amazon's after all; Geoffrey Hill is announced as a candidate for the Oxford poetry chair; and other news.
A Canadian poet is encoding his poetry into bacterial DNA; Egypt is experiencing a fiction explosion; reading proficiency continues to stagnate among America's schoolchildren; the folks from Jersey Shore land a book deal; and other news.
South Korean scientists develop 3-D book technology; Los Angeles libraries face staff cuts due to budget reductions; a British Airways strike disrupts the Bologna Book Fair; Australian publishers are playing "catch-up" in the digital book revolution; and other news.
Publishers Weekly releases its ranking of 2009 best-selling hardcover books; Apple pens deals with two more publishers for its iBookstore; the second annual Rainbow Book Fair takes place this weekend; Ted Hughes gets a plaque in rarefied Poets' Corner; and other news.
Will Ferrell is set to star in a new Raymond Carver adaptation; Hull City commemorates the anniversary of Philip Larkin's death with toads; library lovers attempt to raise millions to stave off closures; a woman finalist for "Million's Poet"; and other news.
After five years, the Atlantic renews its commitment to fiction; two editors quit Harper's; Ian McEwan is planning an opera of Atonement; the all-star lineup for PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is announced; and other news.
Bob Miller leaves HarperStudio for Workman Publishing; BEA announces New York Book Week; changes at the top for Barnes & Noble; Amazon threatens to remove buy buttons again; and other news.
Britain's poet laureate memorializes David Beckham in verse; Borders invites books clubs into its cafés; agents fret over the emergence of "enhanced" digital book editions; Kwame Anthony Appiah is reelected as president of the PEN American Center; and other news.
Library borrowing increases in Britain for the first time in decades; iPad's text-to-speech technology raises copyright concerns; a "lost" Shakespeare play is reclaimed; the Texas Board of Education cuts Jefferson from textbooks; and other news.
