Stephen King publishes a poem in Playboy*… … … … I… … … I … … hm… I’m not sure where I can go from here… I think Bookninja may finally be done…

Comically evil douchebag Glen Beck (why are all the right wing douches so fat? oh, wait.. Michael Moore… retracted!) is being styled an Orpah for thriller novels

Books? We don’t need no stinking books! Toronto embraces the library 2.0

Obama’s half brother writes memoir about father’s abuse

Al Gore reads from new book about how your insistence on breathing is killing the planet

Stirrup-pant-and-flipflops set in laundromats worldwide breathe sigh of relief: Torstar and Harlequin are doing well

Another cash-strapped university press goes all digital

Galleys at S&S now done electronically—bravo! (However, I should note one area of concern: S&S is embracing the digitizing of publishing to the point that I think there’s a real risk they may accidentally upload their staff to corporate servers in a baby/bathwater kind of thing)

*This link is LSFW, actually taking you to the Playboy site for the poem, and while there’re no ta-tas on display that I can see, the URL does contain the word “playboy” so your IT guys in the back might finally have the dirt on you they need in order to force you to participate in their weekly D&D LARP sessions…