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Today’s links of interest:

• Newsstand Holdup
  Magazine distributors want to increase retailer delivery charges by seven cents per copy — that’s seven cents for each magazine dropped off, not sold.
• No Option
  One man looks at the pretty much insane notion of perpetual returns and sees nothing but bad.
• Britney Spears Signs £10m Deal To Write Autobiography
  It’s not the internet we should worry about, it’s this kind of insanity!
• BEC Still On
  They will not succumb!
• Naomi Alderman: How the web is undermining reading
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And home taping is killing the music industry.
• Markus Dohle Anticipates Obama as Mr. Tough Choices
  Praise for Markus Dohle as the dust settles at Random House, allowing the publisher to get back to what it’s supposed to do.
• Quill & Quire » More publishers sitting out BookExpo
  Smaller publishers are making the choice to miss the Canadian show as well.
• iPods and iPhones: death for the book trade
  No. Sorry, no. At least not the way this particular author envisions.
• BookStream to Flow No More
  No credit, bad economy.
• "Kindle Killer" Might be Hyperbole, but a Lot to Like About Shortcovers
  A look at Indigo’s Books and Music new project.