The PW Morning Report: Monday, May 11, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 5/11/2009 6:01:00 AM
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the web: Washington Post in Talks with Google; IDPF’s E-Book Stimulus Plan; LSU Press in Danger; Final Wallace Novel Sold in UK; Missing Poet Confirmed Dead.
Washington Post In Talks With Google To Present News Online
The two companies confirmed the possibility of a partnership.
E-Book Stimulus Plan to be Focus of Digital Book 2009
Tomorrow’s IDPF conference will focus on the hopeful economics around e-books.
Budget Cuts Threaten LSU Press
A proposed $40 million cut for LSU by the state legislature could kill LSU Press.
UK Rights to Final Wallace Book Sold to Hamish Hamilton
David Foster Wallace’s unfinished final novel, to be published by Little, Brown in the U.S. in 2010, will be published by Penguin subsidiary Hamish Hamilton in the UK.
Missing Poet Confirmed Dead
Searchers have confirmed that Craig Arnold, the American poet who went missing in Japan two weeks ago, died hiking on a volcanic island.
