Good morning, interwebs! It’s finally warming up in Boston (finally!) but I still need a morning coffee and something to read. Here’s what I’m checking out this morning.
Update: Mir just stuck his foot in my coffee (not hot) so it might be tea for me today…
11:58 am: This should probably be 8 links now, because my interview with Scott Westerfeld about the Bitch Media 100 feminist YA books is now up @ PopMatters.
From the weekend NYT – More kids are using e-readers, and e-book sales for January show it.
From last week’s Guardian Books Blog, reflections on no longer being a young novelist.
At The Australian, a nice repost on the new Alan Gribben’s edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a good sampling of comments from the NYT.
And, in case you missed it, here’s Gribbens’ reasoning, excerpted from the introduction to the book.
At ebookNewser, a quick piece on Sarah Salway’s 2004 book, Something Beginning With, rocketing up Kindle charts with a little help from Twitter.
GalleyCat reports that AOL is acquiring Huff Po for $315 million.
And finally, more from the NYT, with a January 30th piece about young Americans of mixed race identifying as mixed rather than one side or the other. Some of the language in this piece is frustrating, like “ethnically ambiguous,” but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. Provides some insight into the YA market, too.
What are you reading today?
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Peta- I can’t believe the AOL is buying the Huff Post! I read that earlier this morning and am very surprised! The statement they gave seems like little changes will be made, but who knows…?
Great links! Thanks!
@Lisa – Thanks for dropping by! I’m definitely not in favor of the deal unless they start paying more of their writers–Huff Po’s success has depended on free content, and all that new money has to go somewhere…
I’ve read a few people who think this is the beginning of the end, since AOL doesn’t have a great track record with its tech buys. I do hope they don’t go bust–they have a half-decent books section, and we need all the book talk we can get!