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:
Vodafone and digital book service provider GoSpoken.com launched a mobile book superstore (Booktrade [2]).
Plastic Logic's Que proReader [3] and Samsung's [4] new line of e-readers debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The Guardian [5] celebrates some of the great writers who died in the last decade.
After nearly forty-four years and a zenith of almost 800 stores, the last B. Dalton Bookseller will close its doors this month in Minnesota (Star Tribune [6]).
Philip K. Dick's estate plans to sue Google over its decision to brand its new mobile phone the Nexus One (Telegraph [7]).
Retail book sales dropped 3 percent in 2009, according to Nielsen Bookscan (Publishers Weekly [8]).
E-book distributor OverDrive announced that it has added 1,700 international booksellers, publishers, and libraries to its network (Strategyeye [9]).
In contrast to yesterday's news that Barnes & Noble suffered a 5 percent drop in holiday sales, many indy bookstores in the U.S. [10] and U.K. [11] increased sales or held steady [12] over the holidays.
Metrophobia (otherwise known as the fear of poetry) may finally be on the wane, according to Huffington Post [13].