Today’s book news:

• Portland bookstore’s 17-foot Mockingjay display scores a visit from Suzanne Collins
• Amazon’s new barcode scanner app revisited
• The Miami Herald requests a poem to celebrate basketball star LeBron James
• National Book Award nomination presents print-run challenges for McPherson & Co.
• Publishers help fund Stratford Chefs School’s gastronomic writer-in-residence program
• Earlier this week: American author and screenwriter Robert Katz dies in Italy