Publishing: eBooks rewrite bookselling. A bit of a mix of sensible estimations and wild predictions, but another sign people are waking up to the potential impact of eBooks.

Interest-Piquing: Do you write fantasy or literary fiction?

InsPiring: Shakespeare in the bush – never make assumptions about what is “universal”. You can’t have a revenge narrative in a culture with a completely different concept of revenge.

Procrastination: In Wales, it’s a legal requirement that road signs be in both English and Welsh. Because there are actually people in the UK who speak more than one language (I know!). Welsh is spoken as a first language by fewer people than English, especially in the bigger cities. Which leads to some translation problems, since a lot of council office workers don’t speak Welsh.

Which leads to signs that are perfectly sensible in English, but read “I am out of the office” in Welsh. Or say “Look Right” in English but “Look Left” in Welsh. Or inform cyclist’s they have inflamed bladders.

Publishing: The iBook store’s finally launched in the UK, but only with free books. It’s still a bit up n the air whether the Agency model is legal in this country, which is interesting. If it’s deemed not to be, how is that going to affect the Agency Five? If they use the Agency model in the US but don’t here, how is it going to affect sites of Amazon and the iBook store, which is available in both countries? If a book is internationlly licensed, will it be possible to shop between the various models?

InsPiring: Hidden city found beneath Qatar sands. You forget how much stuff we still don’t know about human history, let alone the planet’s.

Interest-Piquing: Peter Serafinowicz on why he steals movies, including his own.

Procrastination: I’m still getting my head around tumblr, but this one‘s awesome. Fake Science! In a similar vein, a cartoon explanation of the MMR Vaccine lunacy. The guy’s also working on a homeopathy one.