Yatterings

Roger Sutton, over at the Horn Book blog, ponders the question of how many books ever become backlist before disappearing:
“The question that only came to me today is about how much frontlist becomes backlist, and how long it stays there. For example, what percentage of, say, juvenile hardcover fiction published five years ago is still [...]

From the spine shuddering (but perhaps oh so ineffably cool) is a link on Scott Westerfeld’s blog that there are such items as blood-powered tattoos. It appears to be a subcutaneous implant which runs off the sugar in the blood. Its like the flash tattoos in his novel, Uglies (Amazon).
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