Not every country has been so accommodating, but Italy seems happy to allow Google to digitize rare books.

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Why Google's deal with Italy is a good thing for readers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

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New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb)

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet

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A rare peek inside Google's HQ (Guardian Unlimited)

Suffering from erectile dysfunction or benign prostatic hyperplasia? Go out and buy a book.

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)

More than 150,000 historic books from 160 National Trust properties have been catalogued online for the first time.

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National Trust: Historic books catalogued online (Yorkshire Evening Post)

The Irish Grand National is on the agenda for Ballytrim after he bounced back to form to land the Lucan Racing Leinster National Handicap Chase at Naas.

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BALLY BOOKS IRISH NATIONAL TICKET (Sporting Life)

While the tsunami launched by Chile's Feb.

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Hawaii's tsunamis: Scenes of destruction and how to survive (San Francisco Chronicle)

Kids might never have been so quiet. Today more than 6,000 Columbia Public Schools elementary students stopped what they were doing and read for 15 minutes as part of Read Across America, sponsored by the National Education Association.

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Classrooms silent in rare event (Columbia Daily Tribune)

Former Curator and Assistant Vice President for Library Services Robert Williams has returned to KSU’s library staff to continue supplying the university with his bibliophilic expertise. Williams retired in October 2009

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Curator returns to KSU (The Sentinel)

Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible.

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (AP via Yahoo! News)