ProfDev 21/09/05

Authors sue Google over book plan
A US writers' group is suing internet search engine Google, claiming that its plan to digitise major library book collections infringes author copyright.

Potter books on sale as downloads
The Harry Potter novels have been put on sale as audio downloads in a bid by author JK Rowling to tackle piracy.

Tractors takes the prize
Marina Lewycka's 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' has won the Saga award for books of wit and humour by authors over 50. Read an interview with the author here.

The read of my life:
The Independent newspaper asked its readers to review their favourite novel in no more than
100 words.

Move over Buffy, it's Librarian Lady
The USA Librarian Action Figure is based on a recently retired Seattle librarian, Nancy Pearl. Some 100,000 “Librarian Action Figures” have been sold...

Alice's adventures in Wonderland
The latest addition to the British Library's 'Turning the pages' is a fully digitised version of the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. It is available via http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml.

Life-changing books: the chapter and verse
Melvyn Bragg said it wasn't great people who changed the world, but the books they wrote. Here, we discover books that influenced 12 lives. An alternative to the list devised by Melvyn Bragg.