Under normal circumstances, the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, logged over 17,000 free views in a day on upstart "social publisher" Scribd would be the story. The real story, however, lurks in the comments left on the Scribd web site.
According to Poynter, Matt Taibbi's just-posted Rolling Stone piece on Michele Bachmann "borrowed liberally" from a 2006 City Pages cover story written by G.R. Anderson.