Phillip Greaves, who infamously sold The Pedophile's Guide To Love and Pleasure through Amazon's e-book store, has been arrested on obscenity charges. He probably shouldn't have sent an autographed copy of his creepy "child lover's" guide to a Florida sheriff.

OK, so technically they don't exist, but here's an amazing parody ad for Brontë Sisters Power Dolls, who must "fight evil publishers to get their books into print." If you're not already sold, I have one word for you: Brontësaurus!

The Onion's A.V. Club has forthrightly apologized after discovering that one of their writers wrote a review of a book without reading it. Because it hadn't been published yet. How'd the writer manage to fool his editors? Watch and learn.

The publisher and ghostwriter of Real Housewife of New Jersey Danielle Staub's memoir, The Naked Truth, are being sued by Staub's ex-husband, Kevin Maher. The lawsuit claims that Simon & Schuster and the author defamed Maher by calling him abusive.

An original, three-foot-tall edition of J.J. Audubon's Birds of America, complete with gorgeous illustrations, sold at Sotheby's London recently for $10M, a record. Upon hearing that Birds of America sold for $10M, Lorrie Moore got really excited for a second.

William McGowan's new book, Gray Lady Down, is a right-wing work of media criticism directed against New York Times. The New York Times Book Review will not be reviewing it. But why not? Ah, there is a juicy controversy there!

Google launched its e-bookstore today. The 300,000 titles — about half as many as available for the Amazon Kindle, but probably way more than Apple's iBookstore — will work on iPads, iPhones, Android phones and Google's web-based reader.

The hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management has offered to help Borders buy rival imperiled bookseller Barnes & Noble. Since Ron Burkle's not involved in this bid, you probably won't hear much more about it unless it's successful. [WSJ]

The sex scenes in Rowan Somerville's The Shape of Her are so excruciating that he was awarded the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction prize. But you have to feel for him after reading his account of "winning".

Bed-hopping Puritan Christine O'Donnell has signed a deal with St. Martin's to write a "behind the scenes" account of her 2010 Senate race. Let us know if you need any photos or anything, Christine.

Good news, educators: the book-banners are more organized than ever! Instead of lone nuts calling for books to be banned, now it's national groups of nuts, like the Parents Against Bad Books in Schools. And what makes a book "bad?"

Why did Paris Hilton suddenly become so famous a few years ago while other ditzy fameseekers with no discernible talent—like, say, Tara Reid—fell off the map so quickly? Elizabeth Currid-Halkett breaks it down in her new book.

[Excerpt from Starstruck by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. Republished with permission]

The Literary Review has awarded its annual Bad Sex in Fiction prize to Rowan Somerville, a British eroticist who wrote this: "like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her."

George W. Bush has accomplished quite a feat — he's sold 1.1 million copies of his debut historical novel, Decision Points (135,000 e-books!) since its release on November 9. How 'bout a round of applause for the old cowboy?

Last night, Bill Carter—late-night television guru and author of The War for Late Night—stopped by for a chat with Jimmy Kimmel. Immediately, Kimmel took issue with the unflattering physical description of him in Carter's book. Their exchange, inside.

The criminal that old people love to hate, Colton Harris-Moore, the "Barefoot Bandit," yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges related to his years-long spree of stealing airplanes and boats. And, unsurprisingly, he's now mulling over book and movie deals.

Musician Patti Smith won the nonfiction National Book Award on Wednesday for her memoir Just Kids, while Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule came out of nowhere (well, Kingston, N.Y.) to win the fiction prize. Everyone was very surprised! And drunk.

That's sure what it looks like! Here's the cover for the new book by Glenn Beck and conservative psychiatrist Keith Ablow, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life. It's a very interesting book cover, don't you agree?

Speaking of Oprah, remember James Frey? A former Gawker intern, Frey is probably better known for the time he made up a best-selling memoir and Oprah yelled at him. Well, he's got a new venture, and it sounds absolutely terrifying.