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Back in Action

After taking a bit of a vacation, I’m back in action.

So many things happened in the book world while I was away. Among them:

Bringing Quidditch Back. (Courtesy of Huffington Post)

Franz Kafka (Courtesy of: Getty Images via the Guardian)

or so it seems. The jury is still out on whether they can kill the book. First, it takes longer to read a book on an eReader. Secondly, licensing and multi-million dollar deals may limit eBook activity.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Courtesy of WSJ)

and Hollywood decided to ‘remake’ the Swedish movie.

With Daniel Craig cast as one of the leads.

Craig as Blomkvist?

Ghost Writing

From: univision.com

Remember Ghost? Where Patrick Swayze’s character communicates with the living via Oda Mae (played by Whoopi Goldberg)? Well, Cristina Castrellón claims she’s had a real Ghost-like experience.

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Then there’s the Thin Line between Creativity and Plagiarism…

So it turns out J.K. Rowling, whose real name doesn’t really have a “K” in it *, is being sued for plagarism by estate of Adrian Jacobs. The Estate claims that Rowling stole her ideas for Harry Potter from Jacobs’ “Willy the Wizard” books. Rowling’s camp has remained mum about the whole matter but this’ll be a doozy for next few months I’m sure and we’ll probably be hearing lots of wizard jokes from the press and CHEEZY headlines.

You be the judge for now. Here’s one excerpt I found on the Willy the Wizard website on “Snake Tongue Communication”

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