Media used to be full of moguls, but no longer: The Economist opines that Rupert Murdoch is “the last member of a dying breed.”
The Hangover star Bradley Cooper gets cast as Lucifer in a new film adaptation of “Paradise Lost.”
Why was Ayn Rand such a bestseller? “Because she writes the best children’s literature in America,” former editor Patrick O’Connor told The Millions’ Gary Percesepe. “The Fountainhead is practically a rite of passage for alienated youth. She writes these epic, Wagnerian things. Where the sex takes place on the very highest plane and it speaks to the kids’ highest aspirations, their youthful idealism. It’s all YA stuff.”
More than eighteen thousand scientific papers downloaded from JSTOR have been uploaded to Swedish torrenting website Pirate Bay as a single, thirty-three gigabyte file.
Triple Canopy has released part of its new issue online.
And, finally on Borders’ demise: Yahoo! News looks at how the book chain’s closure will ripple across the country; paidContent considers the biggest losers from the Borders bankruptcy; NPR examines what Borders’ demise means for bookstores, authors and readers; GalleyCat blames Amazon for the chain’s collapse; and even though Barnes & Noble will get a modest boost from the liquidation of its largest rival, it still faces stiff competition and an industry-wide decline in book sales.