Friday Links

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) shows that the ranking is entirely unearned.

Atlanta ranked forth most literate city. bit.ly/xx4C3r

— AJC(@ajc) January 26, 2012

The closing of another Atlanta indie bookstore also suggests that “forth” might be too high on the list.

Electric Literature’s January Mixtape is for Leigh Stein’s The Fallback Plan. I’m reading it now. It’s excellent.

Check out Melville’s House’s Making the Cover slide show to see the design iterations for The Fallback Plan. I’m all about The Fallback Plan right now.

And speaking of Electric Literature, they somehow dug up a picture of me reading Moby-Dick to use as their latest cover. I’m also all about the Electric Literature right now.

On average, Kindle books are cheaper than Nook books.

A list of McSweeney’s 10 best literary lists

Johnny Ramone autobiography? Yes, please.

The new hybrid book economy

10 Bestselling Books with More than 80 One Star Reviews

What Your Favorite Blog Says About You – doesn’t include BGB - but rest assured that if BGB is your favorite blog it means that you are awesome. And you are probably my mom.