What Happened To Kids Books? (NPR)
Books inspired by PG-13 movies are taking over library shelves. Can See Iron Man Run really be good for young readers? Alex Cohen talks with Slate.com writer Erica Perl about the pros and cons of "fast-food lit."
Free sci-fi e-books, for a limited time (CNET)
Tor.com is offering through Sunday two dozen free e-books from major science-fiction and fantasy authors.
Google Books expands its non-English resources (Nature)
The municipal library of Lyon, which holds France's second largest collection of books, going back centuries, has become the first French library to join forces with Google.
Barack Obama, John McCain Get Superhero Treatment -- Minus Tights And Capes -- In New Comic Books (MTV Music Television)
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are the heroes of two new biographical comic books available in October; J. Scott Campbell drew both covers.
Who Hasn't Read James Joyce Yet? [Books] (Gawker)
British authors go on camera to confess the classic books they're embarrassed to have never read. Middlemarch? Wuthering Heights?! [Telegraph]
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