Each Monday, here on Editor's Corner, I run through the latest issue of the Bookseller magazine and pick out the bits and pieces of book industry news that catch my eye.

This quick round-up of book stuff is culled from the pages of last Friday's 12th June issue:

• Amazon "may launch the Kindle in the UK this year, Waterstone's has had success with the Sony Reader and Borders is about to launch a new device, but Nick Hornby [has] said, 'People don't read enough... They read maybe seven or eight [books] per year. You don't need one of those machines to do that'"
• travel publishers "are bracing themselves for a 'whopping great returns' list -- after it was revealed that W H Smith would only sell Penguin foreign travel guides from its airport stores"
• Luck Johnson "chairman of Borders UK, has denied that the retailer is up for sale, following the appointment of financial adviser Clearwater Corporate Finance last week"
• Tom Hodgkinson "editor of biannual magazine The Idler is self-publishing the latest issue under the imprint Idler Books"
• a "children's poem written by Ted Hughes in the mid-1950s and lost is being published this autumn by Thames & Hudson"
• authors "will turn till-jockeys, take part in reading groups about their own books and host literary lunches during... Independent Booksellers Week (15th-22nd June)
• library campaigner Tim Coates "called for the public library service in Wirral to be given to a neighbouring local authority to manage"
• Orion audiobooks "and unabridged audio publisher W F Howes will both be supplying audio editions of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol to coincide with Transworld's print edition in September"
• leading "radio and TV broadcaster Jeremy Vine will host this year's Bookseller Retail Awards"
• millionaire "philanthropist Sigrid Rausing and her husband Eric Abraham, the owners of Granta Publications and Portobello Books, are to take a more hands-on role"