All the book news you can stand, and then some:

• Bad news for impatient Canadians: international debut of iPad delayed by a month
• Dave Bidini announces the Paul Quarrington Award for Best North American Sports Book
• Ballantine and Bantam Dell fused together
• Twilight series makes list of frequently challenged books; still doesn’t beat out And Tango Makes Three
• Karl Rove runs away from another book signing
• Apple hearts blind people
• U.K. sees revival of “radical” (or, as we would say, “activist”) book shops
• Man uses iPad and pet cat to briefly escape sad, lonely life