Here’s today’s book news:

• Publishers Weekly takes temperature of Bologna Children’s Book Fair
• Will Random House ever be on the iPad?
• More conjecture on Apple’s book pricing plans
• Newbery-winner Sid Fleischman dies
• Harold W. McGraw Jr. (of McGraw-Hill fame) dies, too
• British spy novel geek to auction off private library
• Shane Koyczan performs “Swiftly” for the National Post