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:
According to an advertisement scheduled to run this Sunday in the New York Times Book Review, the upcoming Barnes & Noble e-reader (now dubbed the “Nook”) will allow users to lend digital books to friends (New York Times).
IREX Technologies, which is launching its own e-reader this month through Best Buy stores, has signed a deal with electronic newspaper and magazine distributor LibreDigital (Press Release).
As the Frankfurt Book Fair winds down, organizers in Turkey are hoping that the twenty-eighth installment of the Istanbul Book Fair—which gets underway on October 31—will enjoy a greater international profile (Today’s Zaman).
Could the BookServer project, a digital indexing and book distribution initiative unveiled yesterday by the nonprofit Internet Archive, eventually displace Amazon? (CNET)
Author, blogger, and copyright reform advocate Cory Doctorow is kicking off a multifaceted publishing experiment along with a monthly column over at Publishers Weekly.
In other e-book news, New York University—with financial backing from Abu Dhabi—has announced plans for the world’s first completely digital academic library (Washington Square News).
Penguin’s recently announced English-language venture in Hong Kong coincides with a significant change in the legal status of private publishers in China (Wall Street Journal).
The American Library Association says reforms proposed by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the USA Patriot Act are still too weak to protect “the constitutional right to privacy and the freedom to read” (Library Journal).
