Astronaut to Publish Picture Book "Mousetronaut"

Astronaut Mark Kelly has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish a picture book entitled "Moustronaut."  The book will detail one mouse's experiences in space. 

I would like to take this opportunity to outline my own picture book, "Ratbrarian."

The rat lives in a public library, nesting in the archived newspapers that are never looked at anymore because the librarians are still collecting them a year back even though the articles are all available online.  Each night he ventures out to the break room, where he dines on the discarded popcorn left in the trashcan and the pizza boxes left over after board meetings.  He also reads Harlequinn romance novels and dreams of a lady mouse to share his time with. Then he is eaten by the cat the librarians adopt.

Astronaut Mark Kelly to Publish a Picture Book With Simon & Schuster's Paula ... - Sacramento Bee

Apple Sued Over eBook Pricing and Kindle Gets Advertising

The face of evil.

Apple and five publishing companies have been hit with a class action lawsuit by the firm Hagens Berman over ebook price fixing.  The lawsuit claims that Apple, HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group Inc. and Simon & Schuster Inc. conspired to illegally fix prices of ebooks and shut down the competition created by Amazon's lower priced ebooks.

Anybody feel like this is just a big advertisement for Kindles?  Oh, Kindle ebooks are so cheap that the big boys had bring us down.  Why can't we all be friends?  Those big meanies are trying to stop us from giving you the best prices around.  So cheap in fact that we feel crazy.  We must be crazy.  We are giving the site away!  So come on down to Crazy Larry's Amazon eBookland and we'll have us a good old time.

Also, you know the folks over at Google Books are loving this.  Their main completion are having a slap fight while they just put out their first eReader. Of course, they could feel left out.  This is the first major ebook court battle that they have not been apart of.

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The Devil Speaks about New Book Deal

Glenn Beck, here-forthwith to be known as "The Devil," announced just a couple of days ago that he will be partnering with Simon and Schuster to publish more crap under their fiction/nonfiction print Mercury Ink.  Anybody else realize that mercury is poison and would probably not make the best ink?

I hope Simon and Schuster made a good deal with The Devil.  I could imagine him screwing them over.  Like with one of those weird bargains like wishing for immortality but then finding out you did not wish for youth so you grow all old and nasty forever.  Wait... I bet they wished for best-selling books.  That's why they sell this pulp feces. [CrainsNewYork]