Busy working on working, but found a link or two for you during my “coffee” breaks:

#1: I can’t imagine who thought this was a good idea, but a publisher convinced Amazon to delete Orwell ebooks that had already been bought on customer Kindles. That’s sure to encourage consumers to buy ebooks…or maybe not.

#2: It’s all very good to have a blurb by a famous author on a less famous author’s book, but designing the cover to fool the consumer into thinking the book was actually written by said famous author? Not cool. Not cool at all.

#3: Remember that speech Sarah Palin gave when she resigned her post as governor of Alaska? Someone has edited, copy edited, and fact checked that train wreck into understandable English. I was tempted to do this myself, but Vanity Fair beat me to it.

#4: I’ve long suspected that Facebook is a privacy nightmare, but I didn’t know that it actually violates the law (at least where I live). Maybe I’ll finally be able to delete my account from my 5 minute foray into Facebookdom (creepy).

#5: Another post on judging a book by its cover. This one from Justine Larbalestier on the US cover of her book Liar where the cover shows a white girl but the lead character is actually black. Confusing to the readers to say the least especially since the book is about a girl that lies and the cover suggests she is lying about at least one thing she isn’t lying about.

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