One last news round-up before the weekend:
- Amazon plays hardball with Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette
- Amazon unveils Kindle for Mac. (Meanwhile, cats and dogs form truce, start working together to overthrow humans.)
- Is new Kindle app a victory for Amazon or Apple?
- Apple might not have much content ready for iPad launch
- Ian Rankin finds literary circuit to be full of “bitching and backbiting“
- Shane Koyczan reflects on his Olympics experience
- If you’re going to write about Parisian fabrics, get a lawyer first
- Joe Sacco becomes first graphic novelist to win Ridenhour Prize for “truth-telling”
- Bloomsbury group archive sheds new light on Virginia Woolf’s death
- Wanna see the future of book scanning? Check this out