Today’s links of interest:
- A book as Christmas gift? Here?s a smarter idea
Once again, not a good idea. If you love books, this is not the way to go (also, not a Netflix for books unless Bookswim has entered into deals with the publishers for ongoing payments to compensate for lost sales). - PowerHouse Sells Out First Printing of Obama Book – 11/18/2008 1:09:00 PM – Publishers Weekly
How cool is this: "PowerHouse Books sold out its first 55,000-copy first edition of Yes We Can: Barack Obama?s History-Making Presidential Campaign, featuring photographs by Scout Tufankjian, nearly a month before its scheduled mid-December release date. The house has ordered a second printing of 25,000 copies to arrive at the same time." - Publishers Win Copyright Infringement Suit
This one of those weird ones: the ruling says that the sellers weren’t able to claim the First Sale doctrine because they were selling textbooks that were not produced for sale in the United States. - TypePad – Why Blog – Journalist Bailout Program
Hmm. - Mother sues daughter over ‘misery lit’ memoir
Remember the good old days when families confined their internal problems to holidays and other gatherings? - NY judge tentatively OKs Google copyright deal
One step forward and all that. - Sarah Palin?s failure set to reap her m book deal
Of course, taking this money would make her part of the monied elite, so we know she won’t do this. - Death Of Print: Forbes memo confirms print, Web staff merging
Not so much death of print as it is, uh, logical.