- Google put up a special Shakespeare page for easy access to all of his plays through Google Book Search. The Book Search blog has additional details.
- Latest literary trend story: senators writing books. “About 30 of the 100 currently serving U.S. senators have authored books at some point in their careers, and the number is growing.”
- A literary trend story continues: Product placement in novels. Earlier instances include efforts from Ford and BMW.
- In the Guardian, “An American judge intervening in a long-simmering feud has ruled that the rights to John Steinbeck’s most famous novels… should be seized from his publisher and handed to his descendants.”
- And finally, there’s Ed’s Twenty-One More Reasons Why Litbloggers Are Evil & Unethical