The Daily Square – Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? Edition

Today’s links of interest:

Norman Mailer, 84; provocative, prolific novelist and essayist
Norman Mailer passes away at age 84.
Strike: Why the writers are right
And even more on the topic…
Prime move by Amazon for its UK market
The beautiful and dangerous Amazon Prime hits the UK market. So lovely.
O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2008: Information & Registration
Registration now open. Go. Do. In addition to the featured speakers, we can promise a very special guest speaker. No, not her*. Plus, c’mon, New York in February? What better excuse to hang out at the bar and talk crazy shop with us?

* – Okay, maybe her.

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Industry News

This is interesting, especially the part where there's a dedicated in-house team.

Watching Random House these days as they build their digital initiatives.

Amazon's Kindle group has been on a hiring streak for some time. Here's more analysis about what is going on.

What an innocuous headline, especially if you follow Twitter.

Definitely not happy days for Borders. Here's hoping they turn it around.

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