This Week's Required Reading

Things of note found on the internet:

1. Brownie's school assignment was simple – write a book report on a book that has literary merit. Brownie wrote about Peter Straub's wonderful Pork Pie Hat, and his teacher gave him an F, stating that Peter's work has no literary merit. Well, fuck that! This means war.

2. Point. A writer for Alter Net asks "Is Amazon.com evil"?

3. Counter-point. Carlton Mellick III answers "No, and buying through Amazon is the best way to support authors."

4. And finally, NPR asks "will Kindle become the Betamax of our generation?"