CBS orders a pilot for John Bridges’ book: How to be a Gentleman

It will be adapted for television by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer, producer, and occasional guest star David Hornsby.

The SG’s were not consulted.

Deadline Hollywood

No App for you

In what could be a sign that both companies are taking digital bookselling a little more seriously, Apple rejects Sony eReader app.

NYT

… continuing our theme of unpleasant notices, as of late.

A tale of two cities

On the heels of Amazon announcing yet another record period on Friday, with the company’s first $10 billion quarter, sales up 36%, and offering a characteristically tricky little metric for Kindle books surpassing paperbacks as the bestselling individual item on Amazon (there is no mention of how hardcovers or other analog book formats fit in here), there was more bad news from Borders on Sunday as they announced that they won’t be paying their January bills or rent and analysts are speculating that the company could file for bankruptcy as early as next week.

Nabokov’s butterfly theory vindicated

at the NYT, thank god! Rest easy, Vlad.

It takes three

After Amazon and Barnes & Noble announced strong holidays driven by sales of eReaders and digital books, Apple announced that they sold 7.3 million iPads during the 4th quarter to bring total sales of the device up to 13.8 million since its release last April.

Total Kindle sales have been estimated at 4.4 million, but according to a recent Codex survey, 40% of books purchased on the iPad are through the Kindle store (presumably because it’s superior to the iBookstore in functionality and selection at this point).

PW

Borders meets with Publishers again on Thursday

to discuss their future. NYT with a brief report.

Also, “Borders Hires Restructuring Lawyers,” at the WSJ.

If you’re in NY and feeling a bit restricted,

tomorrow is the 10th annual no-pants subway ride.

And sense we’re fair and balanced over here, Sunday is also the 4th annual Pro Pants rally.

More Bad News Borders,

as the nation’s second largest book retailer announces the resignation of two executives and that it will delay payment to some publishers.

NYT

more from the WSJ, which also produced the brutal P&L graph below.

The second generation iPad is coming,

although this late February speculation seems aggressive.

Digital Trends

Remember, way back in the Spring of ’10, when we were all a titter over the first iteration.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s memoir…

to be published by Knopf in the US.

DailyFinance on the book deal.

The New Yorker’s pre-diplomatic cables/sexual assault charges profile of Assange.