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Libyans are celebrating the freedom to read whatever they want in a post-Gaddafi world. Last week, bagpipers and VIPs congregated in the library of the Italianate Royal Palace for a ceremony marking the unbanning of books, the Toronto Star reported.

In what has become a crowded digital conference circuit, Digital Book World seems to have solidified its importance to the industry with an impressive turnout.

this bothers me based on all of the political propoganda that masquerades as literature lately. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck both attempt to use best-seller lists as a public bellweather of their popularity, but both give away electronic editions of their books to boost their standings. When does literature cross the line into propoganda?

Does it make you uncomfortable knowing that Amazon has everything you've highlighted?  What else do they know?  And what do publishers know about how their books are being read?

Amazon claims dog ate homework and glitch caused hundreds of lesbian and gay books to lose their sales rank.

Read the original article by Darnton first and then also see the full text of Courant reply on his blog at http://paulcourant.net/2009/02/04/google-robert-darnton-and-the-digital-republic-of-letters/

SC Governor Mark Sanford Released from Book Contract

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.

If you're looking for Brazenhead Books in New York City, you might run into a problem. In a grand tradition usually reserved for the fake ID or other illicit business, Brazenhead is hidden. Photography director Andrew Watson, in a succinct 3-minute video for DIY mecca Etsy, captivates with an account of a visit to this hidden Bookshop and a meeting with owner, Michael Seidenberg.

Michael Zimmer's blog discusses the Google Book Search. This particular post is authored by SOIS PhD student Jeremy Mauger. (For more information, make sure to check out the related links at the end of the article.)

No penalty for misrepresenting a work of fiction as truth. The lesson of "A Million Little Pieces" is publishers will not worry about misrepresentation when it generates publicity for book.  We have a new category of work "semi-fiction" - formerly know as BS.

Amazon options its first book for a film adaptation to...Amazon?

More digital demand, less funding

Update: This post is part of a series. If you find this topic interesting, I recommend you read the two follow-ups as well: Apple has built its iBooks platform on the back of an open standard. With last week's introduction of iBooks 2.0 and the free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X, Apple is deliberately locking out that popular open standard.