Publishing: Harper Collins introduce a morality clause to their contract. These aren’t entirely uncommon in contracts for children’s authors (after one author turned out to be a paedophile…) but it’s still unusual for writers of adult fiction. Ursula K LeGuin writes a wonderfully sarcastic riff on it.

Ole A Imsen picks apart the bad journalism surrounding Amazon’s latest press release.

Interest-Piquing: Body Impolitic, the blog on Laurie Toby Edison’s site, was linked to me recently due to this post on hairstyles, but pretty much all the posts are interesting and thought-provoking (such as Nothing About Us Without Us and Don’t Touch).

InsPiring: Matt Roeser is a graphic design artist, who in his spare time designs covers for books he loves. And they’re gorgeous.

Procrastination: Brad Goodspeed gives things a sense of Scale by showing what the planets would look like if they were the same distance from us as the moon.