Ah, marketing: Street Lit With Publishing Cred – From Prison to a Four-Book Deal. (via the New York Times)
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The Case of the Missing Papers at a university in Alabama:

The story, “University Police Monitoring Facebook,” hit the street last Thursday. Many copies didn’t stay long, and not because eager readers were snatching them up. Some time between about 8 and 10 a.m., Tropolitan staffers estimate, 1,500-2,000 of the 3,000 copies distributed vanished.

(via Inside Higher Ed)

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Taiwan publishers are now under threat from booksellers:

Two major bookstore chains have issued excessive amounts of VIP cards to gain market share. They have then turned around and pressured publishers to give greater discounts and offer their books as consignment merchandise so the retailers only will have to pay for what they sell and have the option to return the rest. Then they make up various excuses to delay payment to publishers.

(via the Literary Saloon)

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Venice Bristles at the Savannah Treatment. (via the New York Times)
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A spiritual treasure house: the Library of the Israelite Community in Basel [IGB]. (via Rare Book News)
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A book review of Things in the Night by Mati Unt (an Estonian author). (via Conversational Reading)
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A really great review essay from Nextbook by Jay Michaelson of The Ineffable Name of God: Man“>The Ineffable Name of God: Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel. I was waiting to post this until after I had finished the book, but I don’t knew when that’s going to happen.
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Kozo Arts:

Even with the digital and wireless age fully in place, the love of paper remains intact.

That’s apparent at Kozo Arts on Union Street in San Francisco where five women bookbinders labor at their craft with success and contentment.

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Check out the work of Ingrid Siliakus, a paper architect. (via Origami Tessellations)
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Israeli group announces anti-Semitic cartoons contest.

“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy. “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”

(via Drawn!)
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The Christian Science Monitor checks out Paperbackswap.com. (via ArtsJournal)
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Blurb:

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.

Holding a finished book with your name on the cover is a truly amazing feeling; it’s one of those experiences everyone should have. As software people, designers and publishing professionals at the top of our game, we realized something both incredible and obvious: there’s no good reason why it should take tons of time, technical skills, big bucks or friends in high places to publish a book. Or a zillion books, for that matter.

So we put our minds together, and developed a populist publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)

(via Webosphere)
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Finally, March is Small Press Month.