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Today’s links of interest:

• Okay, Yes I Lied
  Don’t you just hate it when you have a favorite blog and the writer breaks her promise to update regularly? We do, too.
• MySpace: A Retrospective
  In which one man tries to game the MySpace system — with, well, we would say mixed success, but possibly that is too much of a kindness.
• It’s not what you’re like, it’s what you like
  Breaking: you can’t determine intelligence by what a person reads. Next up: smart people read dumb books. It happens.
• Can You Buy Your Way onto the Front Table at Barnes & Noble?
  A sordid subject made clear and concise.
• Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
  Yeah, guess what? Virtual browsing leads to real-life buy buying. And still the publishers are convinced they have a better plan. We wait, we wait, we wait…
• Think before you sign & do it!
  In which the delightful Eoin Purcell discusses the importance of thinking before signing (we originally typed that as "singing", which also requires forethought). If you’re entering into a publishing contract, uh, meet the terms. It’s a legal deal, you kn
• A little too Austen-tatious
  Sam the copywriter rails against the snobbish. We like it very much. Also, we like the Austen cover being depicted…does that get us kicked out of the club?