There are so many things wrong with this, starting with "Myspace Books."

This site delivers bite-sized chunks of public-domain and creative-commons-licensed books via RSS. I gave up on the Pepys blog, but maybe another text will suit me better. If only they had some Bourdieu or David Harvey...

Brown University is hosting a wikified version of Mark Tribe's recent book on computer-based art.

JonL points to this chronology of the underground bookstore of yesteryear.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez boosted the Amazon sales rank of Noam Chomsky's *Hegemony or Survival* from 39,513 to 21 after recommending it in a speech at the United Nations.

This had me rolling when I saw it on MSNBC. Brian Williams presses the president on the news that he read Camus's The Stranger - a book about a white man killing an Arab for no reason - and hilarity ensues.

Henry Jenkins on academic publishing and reaching mainstream audiences.

Tim O'Reilly discusses how user behavior follows a power distribution on online book sites like Google Books and O'Reilly's Safari service. On Safari, the curve actually rises at the end, with users hunting down out-of-print computer books.

I don't care if this was on bOINGbOING, I want about a half-dozen of these for my apartment. I've got a decent amount of bookshelf space these days, but this would be nice for the books I'm currently using for classes.They need an extra-large size for cou

half-off everything!