Friday Morning LitLinks
Happy Holidays from the AuthorScoop staff to all of our readers.
Thanks for another great year.
Chinese dissident author Lu Xiaobo expected to be sentenced on Christmas. (GalleyCat)
UPDATE: Lu Xiaobo jailed for 11 years for inciting subversion of state power. (Radio Netherlands)
Tired of all those 2009 book lists? How about a preview of 2010 then? (Telegraph)
PC World’s Tom Spring ponders if eBook piracy is “the publishing industry’s next epic saga.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
In possibly related news, the Amazon Kindle has been hacked. (AfterDawn)
Charles Stross shares a holiday tale. (Tor.com)
Author Patrick Smith injured in fall. (The Ledger)
Dan Brown takes the number one spot in the Christmas book charts. (Telegraph)
Oliver Marre says readers should take a cue from music fans to topple the trite. (Telegraph)
R.I.P. Ariffin Ngah, novelist. (TheStar.com)
On this day in 1914, the famous “Christmas Truce” spread along the Front. (Today in Literature)
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