The PW Morning Report: Monday April 27, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 4/27/2009 6:36:00 AM
A daily roundup of publishing and book news from across the Web: U.K. Digital Book Market Worth £80 Million; Bissell on Foster Wallace; Highlights from the LA Times Festival; Pitt and Jolie Block Tell-All; Duffy Likely Next U.K. Poet Laureate.
U.K. Digital Book Market Worth £80 Million
The digital book market counts for less than 3% of the total publishing market in the U.K.
Tom Bissell Meditates on David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon Commencement Address
Wallace spoke to the graduating class of Kenyon in 2005. His speech was transcribed from video by an admirer and was just published by Little, Brown. Travel and fiction writer Bissell pens a moving meditation on the late author and his speech.
Highlights From the LA Times Festival of Books
Here are some highlights from this weekend’s festival, including a note about three people hospitalized after a sign fell on them.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Block Bodyguard’s Tell-All Book
The couple sicced their lawyers on a former bodyguard threatening to reveal details of their private lives in a proposed tell-all book about his work protecting several celebrities
Carol Ann Duffy Likely to be Next U.K. Poet Laureate
Duffy has been submitted for the Queen’s approval to succeed Andrew Motion as U.K. Poet Laureate. If approved, the 53-year-old poet would be the first woman, and the first openly gay person, to occupy the post.
