Sundry links from around the Web:

• Margaret  Atwood, who recently reviewed the novel of a close friend, reflects on weighing truth against friendship
• Introducing the vook, Simon & Schuster’s cleverly named hybrid of an e-book and video
• Stephen King is coming to Toronto
• The debate in Australia over parallel importation rages on. Now, publishers and booksellers are rejecting the “zero day” compromise, which would force publishers to release books at the same time as international editions
• Elmore Leonard receives another lifetime achievement award, this time from PEN U.S.A.
• Disgruntled booksellers in Hay-on-Wye stage an uprising