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It’s spring…and you’re hanging out here?

• Business by the Book
  Apparently writing a book can do wonders for your business. Unless your book tour cuts into the hours you spend with clients. Life is nothing if not a series of trade-offs.
• Rick Poynor on how Germano Facetti revolutionised British book design
  Requiem for a book cover designer. We should all be so remembered.
• `Freakonomics’ Co-Author Is Sued
  Remember, you’re nobody in this world until you’ve been sued. Also, apparently you can’t say anything negative about anyone ever. Should make for a generally more pleasant society.
• Oxford U. Press Database Is a Bargain for Librarians
  Hmm, making content available to readers in easily accessible ways with good, competitive pricing? Sounds…brilliant. Oxford University has actually increased its distribution, not cannibalized it.
• Penguin Gets a ‘Classic’ in Rotor
  Elda Rotor has been named executive editor of the 60-year old Penguin Classics.
• The Bat Segundo Show – Erica Jong
  Mr. Segundo interviews Erica Jong on more topics than one podcast should be allowed to hold.
• Concern as university dumps books
  We’re not suggesting that the Google book projects could help in this instance, but would remind our loyal readers that even with brand spanking new buildings, physical libraries can only hold a finite number of books. Sad, but true.
• ‘Da Vinci Code’ author faces new plagiarism claim
  If it weren’t so pathetically ludicrous, it would be funny.
• Read an Entire Book in Seven Months!
  It’s a book, it’s a website, it’s…connected to the rest of the world? New media marketing hits the publishing industry. Will they know how to hit back?
• Michiko Kakutani By Ben Yagoda
  Reviewing the reviewer that authors love to … well, not love.