Literary Agent Sues Sites for Ruining Her Reputation: Literary agent Barbara Bauer is suing 19 bloggers and websites, including Wikipedia, YouTube and AbsoluteWrite.com, claiming they are ruining her reputation. [Publisher's Weekly]
Harry Potter ‘deluxe’ first editions auctioned for £17,800: Hectic bidding from around the world this afternoon saw a Berkshire auction house sell a complete set of Harry Potter first editions for £17,800. [Guardian]
Reconsiderations: Richard Yates’s ‘Revolutionary Road’: Americans are ready for Yates, in part because suburban conformity no longer ignites our passions. This is crucial, because “Revolutionary Road” is much more than an attack on suburbia. [NY Sun]
Digital Daze: Over the past few years, a certain boilerplate rhetoric has emerged about the need for university presses boldly to face the challenges of the information technology — the better to seize the exciting new opportunities thus created, yadda yadda yadda. But beneath all the digital platitudes, one detects a growing frustration. [Inside Higher Ed]
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