Thursday Morning LitLinks
Seth Godin expands on his reasons for bypassing traditional publishing. (mediabistro.com)
Ramy Habeeb chats it up with “digital innovator” Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions, who produces enhanced eBooks in the UK. (Publishing Perspectives)
Rachel Deahl has some new details on the Andrew Wylie / Random House truce. (Publishers Weekly)
Charlotte Higgins talks to AS Byatt about her new novel, in addition to “religion, reality, her hatred of diaries and why she is eager for someone to write a novel about the discourse of Facebook and Twitter”. (The Guardian)
Free eBooks for college students… get em while they’re hot. (GalleyCat)
Rick Gekoski muses on what it means to be good literary loser. (Guardian Books Blog)
David Pogue takes the new Kindle for a test drive. (NYTimes)
MI5 thought James Bond screenwriter Cyril Wolf Mankowitz was a spy. (Herald Scotland)
In other “weird spy” news, the author who claimed he was a CIA assassin killed himself on accident… (AP)
“On this day in 1875, the lawyer-politician-writer John Buchan was born, in Perth, Scotland. Buchan wrote prolifically and in almost all genres, but he is best known for his spy-adventure novels, particularly the first “Richard Hannay” book, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Most give Buchan credit for the kind of espionage thriller — he called them “shockers” — that would eventually arrive at James Bond.” (Today in Literature)
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