The wheels of the news bus go ’round and ’round:

• Yann Martel’s U.S. publishers beg indie booksellers to save them
• Octopus Books USA to close
• “I Am Chuck Palahniuk’s New Novel” (or, “Palahniuk Takes a Beat Down”)
• Washington library mistakes theft of 1,300 books for increased circulation
• 54% of iBooks library is fiction
• Maud Newton looks back on eight years of blogging
• More shocking, appalling, bad behavior from anonymous Amazon reviewers