THE FEED: DEC 17TH

What we're reading:

The future of the music business
(Wall Street Journal): OK Go's Damian Kulash writes about how the number of hits his band's videos get on YouTube helps to "set the tone of our business and, ultimately, the size of our income."

RIP Blake Edwards, director of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the "Pink Panther" series
(Los Angeles Times): "Being able to express myself and have it validated by laughter is the best of all possible worlds."

Is your e-book spying on you?
(NPR): E-readers collect data about your reading habits, such as pace, endurance, preferences, etc. Scott Turow on Amazon: "They could tell you with precision the age, the zip codes, gender and other interests of the people who bought my books. Now you can throw on top of that the fact that a certain number of them quit reading at Page 45."

Today's quote:

"It’s great fiction, and what with the massive readership and the movies and everything you can reach so many more people than with polemical writing or political activism or whatever... What’s wonderful is that she’s got people reading this – about intrusive surveillance and torture, but also about solidarity and resistance and great human virtues."

~ Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, on how "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is a thinly veiled metaphor for the War on Terror (Browser)