Book News, In Brief

The Comics Reporter admits that this is nearly impossible to verify, but is Google censoring pro-Palestinian comics?

Kiplinger.com has an article up comparing the Kindle to the Sony Reader. While Sony wins in all of the aesthetic categories, the Kindle holds more and has wireless options. But in the end, Kiplinger says that both e-books "cost too much for what they deliver."

Via The Boston Globe: "In a woeful time for book publishing, when sales are stagnant and reading for pleasure is declining, an unlikely first novel is climbing bestseller lists and causing a sensation. To the astonishment of writers, editors, and booksellers, David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is proving that readers can still fall hard for an old-fashioned literary epic by someone they've never heard of..."

Via Boing Boing: "This marvellous paperback chair is on display at Myopic Books in Providence Rhode Island...ZOMG I wish this was for sale."