Baby Beluga.

• The DOJ continues to play strange and surprisingly ham-fisted games in the case against Apple, even after the trial’s conclusion. As reported in the Wall Street Journal and GigaOm on Friday, the DOJ has revised their recommendations for the punishment they’d like Apple (and by extension publishers) to face. The DOJ has reduced the requested period during which Apple cannot adopt an agency pricing model, but insists that they change their in-app purchasing allowances for all content—not just e-books—a change that could have huge repercussions for Apple.
• In case you couldn’t make it out or could have made it out but were busy being the lamest, here are some photos from last weekend’s Morley Walk.
• In Paris, you can sleep in the room where Oscar Wilde died or stay opposite the Gare de l’Est where Marcel Proust may have passed through to catch a train. No matter how tenuous or documented, It’s a new trend for hotel to play up their literary connections. (The Guardian)
• The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Ohio is celebrating its 175th anniversary this week with David McCullough appearing as a speaker. While library budgets were cut during the recession in 2009, Toledo recently passed a 5-year tax levy, which will account for nearly half of the library’s operating revenue. This means that the Main Library will be able to open again on Sundays after Labor Day.  (The Toledo Blade)
• Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench are set to star in a film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel Esio Trot. A sweet love story between elderly neighbors that centers on trickery involving tortoises, the book is being adapted into a film commissioned by BBC One. (Hollywood Reporter)
• Actor-comedian Aziz Ansari has signed a deal with Penguin for a book about modern romance. This is the first book by the Parks and Recreation star, described as an “investigation” into dating in a new technological landscape. (New York Times)
• Last week, serial website-founder Bryan Goldberg pretended there was no women’s-interest publishing industry, while trying to launch his new women’s-interest website, and it didn’t get him very far, really. (Forbes)
• The head of the initiative to keep the annual Best Music Writing Anthology going, Daphne Carr, announces that the anthology won’t be published and she’ll pay back the $17,337 she raised in a Kickstarter campaign from fans. (Poynter)
• This edition of the Persian epic Shahnameh— newly translated and fantastically illustrated–  is gonna blow your mind. (NPR)

A song for Monday: “Someday Baby (Alternate Take)” by Bob Dylan