Friday Morning LitLinks
The Guardian’s Daniel Kalder offers up a wonderful introduction to Abebooks’ new Weird Books Room.
An anti-social Simpsons writer takes revenge on a Thomas Pynchon scholar.
Penguin Classics strikes a deal with Brazil’s Companhia das Letras to create a new imprint called Penguin Companhia Classicos, offering English-language classics in Portugese.
Newsday previews the big name books coming out this fall.
eBook version of the Ted Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, “indefinitely” delayed.
M.A. Orthofer over at Literary Saloon rips the Frankfurt Book Fair a new one for its capitulation to the Chinese government in revoking invitations to dissident writers. Fortunately, the writers themselves are demonstrating more courage than the festival organizers.
Google agrees to allow any bookseller access to its digital catalogue of out-of-print and orphan works to make them available for sale.
Tor.com enters the publishing business with its first release—an on-demand edition of Year’s Best Fantasy 9.
GalleyCat’s Jason Boog reports on how the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies benefitted Quirk Books’ Jason Rekulak.
Today in Literature: On this day in 1885, D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, outside Nottingham.
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