* not comics: a couple of you recommended this article about Amazon from a small-press mostly prose publisher. The basic take is that discounting kills the small press first, all books eventually, by taking the amount of money people are willing to spend on book purchases below the point of survivability.
* this older post about binding comics and design covers for those hardcover editions suddenly flashed into my twitter feed. It's a lot of fun -- I'd like to try something like this.