Saturday, July 19, 2014

THE ROUNDUP with PW


Self-Pubbed Poet Laureate Resigns : North Carolina's poet laureate resigned Thursday, less than a week after her appointment, as criticism of the governor for choosing a writer with just two self-published books of poems continued.

Amazon Isn’t Killing Writing: The market is, says Danny Crichton at TechCrunch.

A Nonfiction Tour of America : Fifty books for 50 states.

A Cut Above : A barbershop serves up a side of books with haircuts.

Holmes and the Battle Over Rights : Heirs to the literary rights of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suffered a setback yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to hear an "emergency petition" over a writer using the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in a new book.


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