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One-book shop

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/09/author-one-book-shop-martian-summer

Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing

Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc’s publishing foray.
Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle books a day without writing a word.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/social-networking/spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing/article2063929/singlepage/#articlecontent

Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists

Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers

substitute the phrase "science fiction" for the word "detective", delete the 1930s murder-mystery novel clichés and insert some 30s science fiction clichés and I get the impression this scenario has indeed played out, and not just once but several times, and the agent/editor has – bizarrely – entirely shared the enthusiasm of their author, so that, a year or two later, yet another science fiction novel which isn't really a science fiction novel – but, like, sort of is at the same time? – hits the shelves, usually to decent and only slightly sniffy reviews (sometimes, to be fair, to quite excitable reviews) while, off-stage, barely heard, howls of laughter and derision issue from the science fiction community.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/13/iain-banks-science-fiction-genre

Kagan McLeod - Infinite Kung Fu

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/ts2.0/artist/260

The secret life of libraries

"If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they'd be considered insane," says Peter Collins, library services manager in Worksop. "If you said you were going to take a little bit of money from every taxpayer, buy a whole load of books and music and games, stick them on a shelf and tell everyone, 'These are yours to borrow and all you've got to do is bring them back,' they'd be laughed out of government."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/01/the-secret-life-of-libraries

How Writers Build the Brand

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/how-writers-build-the-brand.html?_r=2&src=twr

Strange books lists

http://www.cartania.com/strangebooks.html
http://www.cartania.com/strangerbooks.html
http://www.aquiziam.com/five-strange-books.html

Awful Library Books

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

Poesian runokirjat ilmaiseksi

Uusi Poesia-kustantamo tarjoaa kaikki runokirjat ilmaiseksi netissä.
http://www.poesia.fi/

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That’s the torture of walking into a bookshop these days: it’s not that you think the books will all be terrible; it’s that you know they’ll all have a certain degree of competent workmanship, that most will have about three genuinely beautiful or interesting sentences and no really bad ones, that many will have at least one convincing, well-observed character, and that nearly all will be bound up in a story that you can’t bring yourself to care about. All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! Who, indeed, has time to read them?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

With the Death Star destroyed, Han and Luke get medals but Chewie doesn't. Actually, Leia offers him one but the wookiee turns it down. He got one of those things from Yoda about twenty years ago, but there's no way he can tell her that. http://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html

I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger

And so the Terminator, calling itself Conan once more, continued its long and lonely march through history. Having forgot that it was a machine, it lived as a man.
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/05/14/i-will-always-have-been-back-toward-a-grand-unified-theory-of-schwarzenegger/