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:
From its terms of use to its lack of privacy protections to its paltry one-year warranty, Amazon’s Kindle simply doesn’t meet Norwegian standards, the country’s powerful Consumer Council has warned (Register [2]).
In a potential challenge to Google’s Book Search service, the Internet Archive is hoping that libraries will use its recently launched BookServer technology to scan and digitally lend so-called “copyright orphans” (Forbes [3]).
Former Smithsonian Books editor Elisabeth Dyssegaard joins Hyperion this month as editor in chief, filling a position left vacant earlier this fall when Will Balliett departed to head up Thames and Hudson (Publishers Weekly [4]).
Can poetry turn a profit? Sourcebooks founder Dominique Raccah has launched the PoetrySpeaks [5] project to find out (Wall Street Journal [6]).
A new partnership between microprocessor company Marvell and display manufacturer E Ink is driving the development of the next generation of “electronic paper” devices (Publishers Weekly [7]).
PS, I Love You author Cecelia Ahern is undertaking what HarperCollins calls the world’s first “virtual” author tour to promote her latest books (Press Release [8]).
After years of estimates, fundraising, squabbling, and delays, San Diego is moving ahead with construction bids on a new nine-story central library (Library Journal [9]).
Serial fiction platform Textnovel [10]has announced the semifinalists in Dorchester Publishing’s “Next Best Celler” contest (Textnovelblog [11]).
This April, Lebanon will host “Beirut39,” an event organized by the Hay Festival of Literature [12] that will feature thirty-nine of the most noteworthy Arab writers under the age of forty (Publishing Perspectives [13]).