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Ain’t Over Until it’s Over. Mystery mogul Alec Gores makes a play for Borders.
Frenzy Noir. An edgy book trailer for an edgy book: Scott Sparling’s Wire to Wire from Tin House.
Final Crisis? DC Comics Reboots its superhero universe (even changes some costumes!) and the fans go a little crazy.
Digital library card. Virgina libraries create a consortium to offer e-books and downloadable audiobooks.
No Key. The perils of being “locked-in” by having e-books readable on a proprietary e-reader platform.
Google Talk. The Christian Science Monitor looks at the legal struggle over the Google Book Settlement.
I was wrong; the article is still available. Here’s the correct link: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0601/What-s-at-stake-in-Google-s-plan-to-digitize-all-the-world-s-books
As of this writing, the “Google Talk” link to the Christian Science Monitor is non-functional. It appears that the article has been taken down.