There have been some...

interesting articles about books, ebooks, authors - basically, all things tome-related, this past week. Here they are as noted in my twitter account:

An author's view on bailout request from WSJ and some good suggestions of how to do it better - http://tiny.cc/3gopD

An interesting find in the historical sex/BDSM lifestyle - quite a surprise: http://tiny.cc/HABvv

Oh man, when they are needed most, things are not looking so good for libraries - http://usat.me/?34027456.

Dear Author has a great article up on what should be in an eBook-some of it is really obvious, but isn't done-why? http://tiny.cc/excfE

The perfect set of bookshelves as designed by Stijn Disscheroux - http://tiny.cc/5XrhI

A fabulous example of purple prose romance - Steve Martin and Stephen Colbert reading Danielle Steel - http://tiny.cc/LmTCi