The PW Morning Report: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2009 7:08:00 AM

A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Eggers Takes Back ‘Wild’ Book; Wired Editor Steals 'Free' Content; New Hampshire School Pulls Stories from Course; Booksellers Fight Legal Threat; Cheney Memoir Sells for $2 Million.

Eggers Takes Back ‘Wild’ Book From Ecco
Eggers’ novelization of Where the Wild Things Are, a companion book to Eggers and Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the children’s classic, was slated to be published by Ecco, but now it will come out from McSweeney’s and Vintage like all of Eggers’ other books.

Chris Anderson Steals Content for ‘Free’ Book
Wired editor and author Chris Anderson has been caught plagiarizing passages from Wikipedia for his new book on how content should be Free.

New Hampshire School Pulls Stories from Course
In response to parental complaints, a New Hampshire school is removing stories from writers like David Sedaris and Stephen King from a high school course.

Booksellers Fight Legal Threat
Bills introduced in Louisiana and Utah would enable private citizens to sue booksellers who sold books they considered objectionable to minors, and booksellers are protesting.

Cheney Gets $2 Million for Memoir
An imprint of Simon & Schuster will publish Dick Cheney’s memoir in 2011 and paid him a reported $2 million.

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