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Today’s links of interest:

• PR Savvy Now An Author’s Job Requirement
  It turns out that marketing and publicity budgets don’t trickle down the way they used to. Hmm, that’s not right. It turns out that marketing and publicity budgets don’t trickle down. Yes, that’s much better.
• Creative financing for struggling artists
  Apparently, being a starving artist ain’t what it used to be.
• Museum Depicts Creationist History
  File Under: Too Crazy To Be Fake. Of course, such a "museum" already exists. The famous dinosaurs of Cabazon have been reborn (in a manner of speaking) as proof that dinosaurs and man co-existed peacefully. Also, Cro-Magnons combed their hair and used dre
• US firm unveils fully automated on-demand book printing line
  Very interesting.
• Random House buys U.S. Christian book publisher
  It’s official. Everyone can now stop saying, "You know, I heard this rumor…"
• Books come to life at Edinburgh literary party
  Okay, we admit it. We were expecting something else entirely. Apparently, books only come to life in nightmares.
• Colbert Urges Viewers To Embrace ‘Wikiality,’ Gets Blocked By Wikipedia
  A cautionary tale about vandalizing in front of moving cameras.
• Book Finds New Life
  Author signs book deal. Author gets big ole advance. Author submits book. Author dies. Author’s book deemed unpublishable. About then is where it gets weird.
• Is this eBay ad legal? Publishers should fight commercial e-book piracy before e-books catch on
  Interesting article, interesting point about doctrine of first sale applying to electronic media. Have we mentioned the need to clean up copyright law (without politics, please) before it descends into anarchy?