What's happening with writing and reading?

Tonight in class I'm going to refer to some articles and websites that you may want to investigate further. Since I need practice in posting on this blog format anyway, I'm going to try planting the links here (Wish me luck):

In the Atlantic, a provocative essay on how the web is changing the way we read: "Is Google making us stupid?"

On Barnes & Noble's website, of all places, an essay by the former editor-in-chief of Random House on the state of book publishing today. Warning: it's gloomy.

But to counter that, here's Oregon outdoors writer Bill Sullivan, who's figured out how to vertically integrate his research/writing/publishing/marketing into a business that works.

Lots of interesting stuff here.