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:
HarperCollins is in negotiations with Apple to make electronic books available for the company's new tablet device, which is expected to be unveiled January 27 (Wall Street Journal [2]).
The first annual Book Blogger Convention [3] will launch on May 28, 2010, in New York City.
The Book Industry Study Group [4] released a report saying 20 percent of readers in the United States switched from print to e-books in the last year.
Borders Group holiday sales fell twice as much as those of its closest competitors, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million (Publishers Weekly [5]).
Films based on books had a successful night at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (Publishing Perspectives [6]).
Borders plans to throw away tens of thousands of unsold books as it closes over two hundred Waldenbooks before the end of this month (Inhabit [7]).
Penguin UK's popular free iPhone app may set a new trend for e-book publishers (Independent [8]).
British authors admit "confusion" as the deadline approaches next week for opting out of the Google settlement (Bookseller [9]).
Kindle users, upset over the delayed e-book release for the recent campaign tell-all, Game Change, protested by collectively sinking the book's Amazon rating (Publishing Prespectives [10]).