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Wired says that Amazon got around copyright concerns by claiming it never built a library at all, just a digital image archive that can’t be permalinked; Matthew Kirschenbaum suggests this upends a few applecarts, particularly with respect to textual studies and the very definition of books; I think Amazon, or book publishers, may be in [...]

The trailer for Cold Mountain, based on the Charles Frazier book and starring, improbably, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, is up. It looks pretty but sounds terrible. Question to Miramax: How much would it have cost you to send someone to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee and find out what the authentic [...]