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:
Following the release of Bookish—which is backed by publishers Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster—Amazon buys book-oriented social networking site Goodreads [2], adding to controversy around the online retailer’s monopoly on the publishing world. (Forbes)
Publisher's Weekly reports that t [3]he New York Court of Appeals is upholding the Marketplace Fairness Act [3], which requires online retailers such as Amazon to pay sales tax.
San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary [4]all summer, kicking off with a birthday bash on June 23 followed by readings, outdoor entertainment, and other events throughout 2013. (City Lights)
Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, reveals its plans for opening a second store in Phoenix [5] in November, which will include a greater selection of art books and children’s books as well as a beer and wine bar. (Publishers Weekly)
Merriam Webster’s Kory Stamper tells the Atlantic Wire that the ever-evolving Merriam-Webster Dictionary is making more additions [6], incorporating words and phrases such as "anyhoo," "bucket list," and "viral."
Seeking to convert more readers to contemporary poetry, Random House’s blog Hazlitt provides a user guide to the works of Anne Carson [7].
Flavorwire provides a list of ten LGBT books that students should read [8]in response to the growing controversy surrounding the California Department of Education’s recommended reading list released last week.
Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal announces that a portion of the revenue from My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop will be donated to the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression [9]. (American Booksellers Association)
IGN tackles the challenges of adapting novels to the screen and cites the best changes to the HBO version of the Game of Thrones [10] series by George R. R. Martin.