The PW Morning Report: Thursday May 14, 2009

By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 5/14/2009 6:32:00 AM

Obama’s NEA Head; Kindling Your Blog; Catcher In the Rye Two; Amazon, Publisher.

Broadway Producer Set to Head NEA
President Obama has put forward Broadway producer and theater owner Rocco Landsman to head the NEA.

Any Blog Now Accessible on Kindle
A new beta program makes it possible for anyone to include their blog in the Kindle blog directory, allowing Kindle users to subscribe to it. Though Amazon gets a big cut of the proceeds.

A Sequel To Catcher in the Rye
A Swedish/ American travel writer wrote 60 Years Later Coming Through the Rye, due out in the U.K. in June.

Amazon Becomes A Publisher
Amazon has announced AmazonEncore, a new service through which Amazon will use its own customer reviews to find books that might have greater sales potential, and reintroduce them with Amazon’s promotional and distribution help.