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A rehabilitation program in Texas trades jail time for required reading; there are now more iPad owners than Kindle owners; the new Paris Review editors reject a number of poems that had been accepted by previous editors; the tenuous state of tenure at American universities; and other news.
The Sony Reader Store has sold over ten million e-books; the Humane Reader brings e-books to the poor; The Nature of Words opens a literary arts center in Oregon; a flood of books on the Gulf oil spill; and other news.
Compilations of Woody Allen's writings are available in audiobook form; Amazon's e-book sales trump hardcover numbers; a Serbian publisher takes translation into its own hands; a serial book thief is sentenced to imprisonment for three years; and other news.
A trove of unpublished Franz Kafka manuscripts finally see the light in Zurich, Switzerland; Burmese poet Saw Wei discusses his experiences of imprisonment; the President of the Dominican Republic visits the Harvard Bookstore; the Los Angeles Review of Books will lauch this fall online; and other news.
O: The Oprah Magazine is coming to the iPad with its own e-book store; the Obamas will serve as honorary chairs of the National Book Festival in September; the University of Toronto announces the impending closure of its renowned Centre for Comparative Literature; Dave Eggers has his first solo art show; and other news.
FSG launches a monthly newsletter; the nineteenth annual Thomas Hardy Conference kicks off later this month in the United Kingdom; a major Japanese author publishes his new book on the iPad; Velveteen Films sets up a book-to-film department; and other news.
Apple may be planning to release second-generation iPads later this year; Jonathan Franzen revives a seventy-year-old novel; the Tokyo International Book Fair sets attendance records; a book tour by sailboat; and other news.
A raccoon sneaks into the Brooklyn Public Library; Justice Sotomayor signs with Knopf to write a memoir; Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy may become a quadrilogy; the Los Angeles Times names a new book review editor; and other news.
Mark Twain's memoir goes to print; Anne Frank's diary becomes a graphic novel; Poets House puts on its annual book showcase; the value of book blurbs is up for debate; and other news.
Gulf Coast launches a subscription drive to benefit the Gulf crisis; an antique dealer is convicted of possessing a stolen original Shakespeare folio; a Nick Cave novel will be made into a TV mini-series; Sony may be developing an e-reader that is also a hand-held gaming device; and other news.
