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J. D. Salinger died on Wednesday at the age of ninety-one; Borders Group lays off 165 corporate employees; New York City's mayor proposes cutting hundreds of library positions; Santa Cruz county appoints its first poet laureate; and other news.
McNally Robinson emerges from bankruptcy protection; New York attorney general announces an investigation into Barnes & Noble's online discount practices; the Google Settlement deadline arrives today amid a chorus of criticism; industry experts speculate on the impact of Apple's iPad on the publishing industry; and other news.
The editor of Harper's has been fired; writer Zhao Shiying was released yesterday in China; three indie bookstores close in Indianapolis; Apple's tablet to be unveiled later today, and other news.
Digital Book World takes place over the next two days in New York; the CEO of Borders Group resigns; dictionaries are removed from classrooms in Southern California schools; Ingram lays off fifty-seven employees; and other news.
Ursula Le Guin launches a petition seeking to exempt the United States from the Google Settlement; a Russian poet is ordered by the government to undergo psychiatric evaluation; the Jaipur Literature Festival showcases a resurgent South Asian literary scene; the last bookstore in Laredo, Texas closes; and other news.
Bloomsbury USA will change the jacket design of Magic Under Glass in response to growing criticism; opinions are still divided over the Google Book Settlement; HarperCollins UK announces a hiring freeze; the National Book Critics Circle elects eight new board members, and other news.
A treasure trove of unseen Franz Kafka manuscripts is released in Israel; Amazon opens the Kindle to third-party apps while Apple meets with publishers; Oregon seeks a new poet laureate; Tariq Ramadan is granted a visa by the Obama administration; and other news.
The twelfth annual Gathering of Fisher Poets takes place this month in Oregon; Amazon plans to increase royalties on discount Kindle books; HarperCollins Digital is launched; a flim about Allen Ginsberg's Howl premieres at Sundance; and other news.
A new study finds that 20 percent of readers switched to e-books last year; Borders plans to throw away tens of thousands of unsold books; the first annual Book Blogger Convention is set for May; HarperCollins is in negotiations to provide content for Apple's tablet; and other news.
The nation's oldest African American bookstore faces foreclosure; the writer and PEN officer Zhao Shiying is detained by the Chinese government; the makers of the Espresso instant book machine announce a partnership with Xerox; the president of PEN Haiti dies in Tuesday's earthquake; and other news.
