Oh, to be a fancy author these days! Palgrave MacMillan is an academic publisher, founded in 1843, that's published everyone from Keats to Thomas Hardy to Rudyard Kipling, John Maynard Keynes, and Margaret Mitchell. Yet even they are worried about the predicted holiday book-buying holocaust. So they're having a BIG SALE for and turning to the last reliable market for books: authors and their friends. Um, so: The Palgrave MacMillan authors should buy copies of books from Palgrave, at a 55% discount. Happy holidays! (25 copy minimum.)