Your mid-week links round-up:

• Google Book Search would “expose the U.S. to diplomatic stress,” says attorney
• Margaret Atwood strikes blow for intellectual freedom (and earns $1-million in the process)
• Delacorte signs new kids’ series by Tyra Banks (undoubtedly about inner beauty or something)
• Sarah Palin set to publish new book celebrating American values (like free market enterprise and shameless self-promotion)
• Kakutani on new Amis novel: “remarkably tedious”