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Today’s links of interest:

• Free Ebooks: Not Just for Sci-Fi Anymore!
  A look at authors who have made the decision to give it away online. For free, as the kids say.
• Tolkien tips Potter from Amazon top spot
  If we are following the thread correctly, a newly released book by a dead guy takes the top spot from a book that will not be released for several months.
• Sarah Churchwell: The depressing truth behind prizes for women
  One: the fact that they are even necessary in this day and age.
• Internet Transforms Book Publishing, One Ad At A Time
  Rather than engaging in the "book is dead, long live the book!" discussions, this piece reviews where and how new media transforms certain types of information and how we access them.
• Europe’s Digital Library experts meet to discuss copyright strategies
  Truly, we are sad to miss this momentous event. Better luck next time.
• Prize to reward women in publishing
  As in women in publishing who are not authors. Calling honoring those who make the whole thing happen (who are not the authors).
• Internet aids library patronage
  Will the Internet save the public library? Or will it simply serve to remind us that libraries are far more than they seem?
• Less Reading, More Schmoozing at London Book Fair
  ‘Cause really, it’s all about the parties!
• Author tries to interest leader in arts, books
  Call it the two books of the month club. Yann Martel decides to share his book collection with Canada’s Prime Minister…whether the Prime Minister wants to play or not.