thanks for not being a zombie

A variety of things to keep you occupied this morning:

• Jesse Kriss' visualizes the history of legal music sampling (via Lawrence Lessig)
• The University of Pennsylvania offers "PennSound," sounds files of literary readings (via Bookish, via Monty Cristo)
• William St Clair, author of The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2004), will deliver a paper entitled "The Political Economy of Reading" at the University of London on June 22. A sample chapter of his book is downloadable. (via HoBo)
• In The Chronicle of Higher Education, five essays and a discussion forum wrestle with the "impact of the Google's plan to scan millions of books."
  1. "Marginal Utility," by Michael Gorman
  2. "End Result," by John P. Wilkin
  3. "Stressing the Positive," by Adam M. Smith
  4. "Stretching 'Fair Use,'" by Peter Givler
  5. "A Matter of Continental Heritage," by Jean-Noël Jeanneney
• Sylvester Stallone will direct a biopic of Edgar Allen Poe (via Writer's Blog)
• Stanley Fish says composition classes should spend more time on form and less on content. (via Critical Mass)