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Cringe: A staffer at the New Yorker makes up facts for his recent popular book, lies about it, apologizes, and resigns from the magazine. The publisher of his book is halting shipment of print books and taking the e-book off the market.

New book published: Drupal 5 Views Recipes News and announcements · Drupal 5.x mroswell - June 16, 2009 - 14:38 I'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print. I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book. Appendices I'll start by mentioning the appendices, since I think that's one of the most information-rich sections of the book. (The rest of the book consists of 94 step-by-step recipes.) Appendix A - List of all default views available for Drupal 5 Appendix B - Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 field formatters, by module Appendix C - Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 style plugins, by module Appendix D - Views 1 hooks Appendix E - Modules included in recipe ingredients Appendix F - Additional resources and modules Appendix G - Selected noteworthy patches to Views, sorted by topic Appendix E can serve as an index to the recipes, and also includes a column indicating which modules are available for Drupal 6. Appendix G unlocks a whole host of functionality not available in Views 1 by default. Recipes Interesting content includes: - How to overcome the case of the missing term in taxonomy views - Views arguments - Proximity search (Find every trailhead within 6 miles of a Senior Center, for instance) - Views Bulk Operations (such as mass updates of taxonomy) - Views Fusion, and the Views Fusion Node Reference patch - Using !$ and Ctrl-U in command line editing - Detailed steps for upgrading the Date and Calendar modules from 5.x-1.x to 5.x-2.x - Three options for setting up cron - Grouped views with the Views theme wizard - Overriding themes_view_view - Table of debugging techniques, including the author's favorites - Browser plugin for searching the Contributions API page - A quick way to format SQL queries for easier reading

Nice short piece on some of the downside of the Google Books settlement.

Censorship visits the Frankfurt Book Fair

The Wylie agency signed a deal to exclusively distribute e-books of its authors through Amazon. Want to read Philip Roth, Dave Eggers, Saul Bellow in digital form?  Better get a Kindle. 

Response to criticism of the Google Book Settlement by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

Deep into this story is a comment about how publishers and authors in the future might alter content of paragraphs, chapter titles, etc. in order to move books up in a Google search, thus ensuring more visitors to the online book.

Sourcebooks is collaborating with Smashwords to produce 14 mass market titles as DRM-free e-books.

Publisher pulls book because of factual inaccuracies. Where were the editors?

Do you think this book will undergo editorial scrutiny?

Publisher proceeding with a book based on a known false premise.

A collection of news and comment on the Google Book Settlement

Concern the the Google-AAP settlement gives Google an unfair advantage wrt to orphan books and may inhibit scholarly access to these out-of-print works.

Google almost wrapped up the Web rights to books over the ages. But the Justice Department - and Arlo Guthrie - are saying whoa . . .

Interesting video of the Google Book Search settlemnt.

iPublishCentral, a self-service digital content publishing, marketing, warehousing and distribution platform, will allow participating AAUP members to market books on the Internet, sell content online, and promote brands and titles across the Web. Among the three core components of iPublishCentral are market, distribute and deliver.

Should Google filter search results to eliminate e-book pirate sites?

LBF gives a platform to the censors of Chinese Communist Party and stifles the voices of Chinese ex-pats and critics.

An interesting solution for dealing with DRM issues.