Interesting Publishing Development

I find it important, Google's plans to digitize as much of the written word as it can. So here's an interesting development: Author Set To Sue Google Over Web Book Scan. An excerpt:

Chinese author Mian Mian, who shot to fame with lurid tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Internet giant Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said Monday.

Sun Jingwei told Agence France-Presse that the case -- the first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library -- would open at a Beijing court on Tuesday.

On a lighter note, the actor Hugh Grant dreams of a literary career.