Dog-Eat-Dog, Woman-Eat-Book: Literacy in the Age of Reality TV

Robin K. Blum, from over at InMyBook passed along an odd PW Newsline story that says Colorado author Jodi Jill has promised to eat – as in
chew, swallow and digest – a book in public, providing 50,000 people
visit her site and pledge to read a single book of their choosing. She
says she\’s already secured 9000 such promises via her eatabook.com,
a name that nearly single-handedly proves that the deregulation of
Internet domains is a bad idea. Many of those visitors are pushing for
Ms. Jill to eat War and Peace.