Links for a Friday afternoon

For a good compare-and-contrast of Amazon v. Barnes and Noble in the e-book department, read David Pogue's excellent NYT piece, which lays out each company's offerings in the clearest way I've seen yet. It's like reading all the fine print without having to squint.

And on another topic altogether, this blog post by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (a guest post on Nathan Bransford's blog) is for writers who need book blurbs, which we all do eventually. It includes a lot of important dos and don'ts, from bas