Friday Links

Laura Miller: Why we haven’t seen a great 9/11 novel.

Amazon to start Netflix-style e-book rentals?

SAT reading scores continue downward trend.

Galleycat editor uses the word irregardless on television, gets grief.

Goodreads launches their own “recommendation engine” to suggest books that you might like by tapping the data of their 6 million users.  I just tried it out.  I like it.

An indie bookstore is *gasp* expanding.  Go, Greenlight, go.

The Guardian launches a very cool book swap, asking authors and readers to give away copies of their favorite books today by leaving them for others to find.  Check out the rules.

A fall book preview from the LA Times

To Kill A Mockingbird named the UK’s favourite book.

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