This Week in Book News: I Don't Have Time to Write

Amar'e Stoudemire, captain of the New York Knicks, has plans to write children's books.  Yep, just like Michael Jordan turning to baseball, Stoudemire is moving from the high pressure world of basketball and into America's favorite past-time: thinking they have a good book idea.  Hell, I'm still trying to get "Banned Library and the Temple of the Monkey Ninja Farmers" off the ground. BET

Daniel McCracken, the guy who literally wrote the first bestselling "How to" computer book, died two weeks ago.  We give an homage to him with this post, as the news has come out much too late for anyone to do anything about whatever problem may or may not have been associated with his death.  Have you tried turning your McCracken off and turning him on again? TheBulletin

Richard North Patterson has released a revised ebook version of his book "The Devil's Light" in the wake of Osama Bin Ladin being killed with the alleged terrorist/bastard now dead.  This marks the first time a published novel has been re-written in ebook form to reflect global news.  This is why you never name anything after a living person, folks.  There is always the possibility they could disgrace themselves and/or die and then where are you?  NYTimes

Amazon is cracking down on people publishing crappy books.  I did not care enough to finish the article.  arstechnica