Wikibooks

The Creators of Wikipedia have introduced Wikibooks which is an editable, open content source of textbooks. "This site is a wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any book module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikibooks module...".

Nobel Prize

British playwright Harold Pinter has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Read more at ... Washington Post, The New York Times, LA Times ...

way cool

Note: from the Web4Lib discussion list...
"In a celebration of the Public Domain, the Internet Archive's Bookmobile will be coming to a town near you, bringing with it the ability to access, download, and print one of the almost 20,000 public domain books currently available online..."

Forward Prize

The 2005 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection has gone to Helen Farish, a Brit and debut author of Intimates...

Open WorldCat

Attention all you non-librarians out there:
There is a new search function through OCLC WorldCAT which allows you to search for a book title and locate it at your closest library or bookseller. It is called Find in a Library and it works with Yahoo, Google or on a Firefox browser toolbar. Type in the name of the book and the word "worldcat" afterwards and..voila! Look for the tab marked "Reviews" -- you can post reader reviews and have another chance to interact with readers interested in the same books...

Man Booker shortlist

Ok, so they will be announcing the Man Booker Prize winner tomorrow, but I wish to try and at least stay one step ahead at some point in the game! Zadie Smith made the 2005 shortlist, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be her novel, On Beauty, announced tomorrow...

Rea Award

Ann Beattie, fabulous short story writer and social novelist, has won the $30, 000 Rea Award for the Short Story ... there must be something about Charlottesville, Virginia -- Beattie calls it home, as do John Grisham, Rita Dove, and Jan Karon just to name a few ...