Book Jackets Sink or Sell a Book! Editors Should Not Write Jacket Copy! What’s With Those Bogus Book Reviews? Rate the Jacket Copy!

Mr. Obama’s book, for which the publisher paid $850,000, occupies a place of its own in the political-book spectrum: it is not a tell-all, not quite a memoir and not a straight polemic.

• New York Times: Trying Again To Make Books Obsolete

“The market for downloadable books will grow by 400 percent in each of the next two years, to over $25 billion by 2008,” predicted the keynote speaker at the 2001 Women’s National Book Association meeting. “Within a few years after the end of this decade, e-books will be the preponderant delivery format for book content.” Whoops.

Books are turning up in the oddest places these days.