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Franzen Typogate
Jonathan Franzen’s book Freedom suffers UK recall (The Guardian)
Franzen’s British Publisher Apologizes for Printing Errors (New York Times)
Scrabble for Kindle
Is SCRABBLE for Kindle a game changer? (ZDnet)
Scrabble is a Kindle bestseller. Is the e-reader getting game-y? (LA Times)
iPad Skews Young and Male, While Kindle Attracts Affluent Consumers (MIN Online)
Literary Map of Manhattan
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/06/05/books/20050605_BOOKMAP_GRAPHIC.html
Top 10 Words from Trademarks
Top 10 Words from Trademarks (Merriam-Webster)
Critterati Contest
Critterati contest details (The New Yorker)
Social Media and Death
Facebook Form to Memorialize an Account (Facebook)
What Happens to Your Facebook After you Die? (Time)
Legacy Locker
Asset Lock
Deathswitch
National Novel Writing Month
BlogWorld
I’m speaking at BlogWorld in Las Vegas. If you’re going, register now. http://shrsl.com/?~8w6 (affiliate link)
Glamour of Grammar Review
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Passage, Book People, Books-a-Million, Books, Inc., Changing Hands, IndieBound, Joseph-Beth Bookstore, Little, Brown and Company, Politics and Prose, Porter Square, Powell’s, Tattered Cover
Fiction Writing Newsetter
David Farland’s “Daily Kick in the Pants”
Google Editions