Today’s links of interest:
- Is magazine a bad sport for swimsuit issue ban?
Sports Illustrated decides that the annual swimsuit issue cannot be checked out from libraries. That’s okay — the kids will just read it on the newstand like they do every year. - Here We Go Again — Pulitzer Finalists Leaked!
Thereby ruining the "get up at 5 a.m. to watch the announcement" surprise for the rest of us. - Google Print: A Numbers Game
An interesting attempt to quantify the number of "orphaned" works out there. Fewer than some estimates, but still, well, one wonders if we’ll ever know for sure. - ICM, Endeavor in book battle
In which the rarely-enforced (how else can you explain the preponderance of execs leaving motion picture studios to start their own production companies?) no-compete clause is actually enforced. - Think you know how to read, do you?
The perils of learning to read in this day and age. - Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics
While we’re sure you’ll never question our ethics (we’d be on the take if we weren’t so lazy), rest assured: all opinions offered herein reflect those of the person who wrote them. Unless the opinions are unintelligible. Then they were posted by one of the BS cats. Naturally, those opinions are heavily pro-tuna. - And the 2006 NBCC Award for Fiction Goes to …
Critical Mass has the full rundown. - Wham! bang! Marvel kills off Captain America
Point of clarification: this is not the character played by Greg Kinnear in "Mystery Men". - Parliament hears publishers’ concerns
Piracy, territorial copyrights — basically, the same concerns that Parliament heard last year. - Google Book Search wins backing of German library
Our theory as to why libraries are going for this: money. These libraries realize that Google is offering them a service their budgets would never cover. This is very cool. - Winterson novel ‘left at station’
Apparently someone misunderstood the basic concepts behind BookCrossing. - Scarcity of Ads Endangers Newspapers’ Book Sections
The Wall Street Journal looks at our favorite topic. And sounds a lot like us. Only we believe this marriage can be saved.