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Today’s links of interest:

• A Chickens in the Road Sampler Platter
  Suzanne McMinn is up for a Bloggie. Check out her site, read this post, scroll to the bottom and vote! You love to vote, right?
• A bestselling author proposes the most improbable bailout yet
  No, we don’t need a federal subsidy for book reviews. Sorry.
• 8 Articles/Posts All Writers Should Have Read in 2008
  Thank you to Writers Digest for choosing some our work to appear on this terrific list!
• Cell phone novels come of age
  Deep down inside, this article contains much variation on the theme reading and writing are killing reading and writing.
• Conde Nast Shuts Down Domino
  Okay, now it’s personal.
• Book World is Dead; Long Live Book World
  Sarah Weinman says stop your whining.
• Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab
  Maybe it’s our everyone gets a trophy culture, but just become someone *wants* to write a book doesn’t mean they should.
• David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name
  If you don’t give it a name, does it really matter?
• The Friday Project To Offer Profit Share Agreements
  Are we seeing the emergence of a trend or one-offs? The Friday Project looks to the future.
• Washington Post to End Book World As Stand-Alone Section
  Not unexpected. Note in particular the proactive approach taken by the LAT’s David Ulin versus the stay-the-course attitude by his predecessor.