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Must One Write Likeable Characters?

The New York Times has two writers offer different opinions, and what do you mean by likeable, anyway?

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Autograph Your Ebook?

Apple has filed a patent that would let authors autograph ebooks in a variety of ways. It's not the first, but it might be the first to take off. The Bookseller has the news.

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Penguin Goes to the Library

two years after drastically reducing their offerings to libraries, Penguin is returning. Publishers Weekly explains what it knows. It all seems as if it were part of the struggle with Amazon, which has a substantial share of the ebook market anywhere it has chosen to set its cloven hooves.

The Man Booker Goes Global

And a lot of people aren't happy about it. The New York Times explains.

Is That the Light at the End of the—

Tunnel? It looks like the Google book scanning trial may be about ready to wrap up. Publishers Weekly details what's going on as things start to wind down.

Hating Amazon

The drive to support indepent bookstores as part of the literary ecosystem, has its shadow side, as shown by one author who doesn't want people to buy his book through Amazon. It is, largely, a publicity stunt as The Digital Reader explains.

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