Whatever you do, don’t google “pygmy sperm whale defense.”

• Today, Apple will find out if they’ll be subject to a five-year ban on e-book agency model deals after losing the Department of Justice price-fixing trial (sad trombone). But is there a chance that they could appeal the ruling (hopeful trombone?). (Washington Post)
• The owners of Washington’s wonderful Politics & Prose bookstore have written a public letter to Jeff Bezos regarding his purchase of the Washington Post. Lissa Muscatine and Brad Andrews, former Post staffers themselves, say they “view Bezos through the lens of frontline combatants,” he should come visit their store anyway — to “be reminded of the benefits afforded by local bookstores—the joy of browsing shelves, the help provided by expert staff, the pleasures of attending author events, and above all, the shared sense of community.” (Politics & Prose)
• “Never before have I seen such a ham-fisted, inept and downright exploitive depiction of one man’s life — in ANY medium,” wrote one critic of the Omnibus Press graphic story about Nirvana. Now the Omnibus series has a new graphic bio of the Ramones that invents scenes and puts words in the mouths of the dead. Can you do that? (New York Times)
• In what could be an unprecedentedly generous point of view, a writer who got a huge contract out of Knopf for a book that didn’t turn into a bestseller, then got dropped like a hot rock, gives his ex-publisher creds … although not as many as many creds as his new, little indie publisher. A unique take on the one-book-phenom experience from that phenom, Larry Baker. (Iowa City Press Citizen)
• There’s a new wordless pick-up line that’s being used by seniors at the New York Public Library. (New York Times)

A song for Friday: “Love’s the only thing that shuts me up” by Mark Mulcahy: