It’s about time for another Fri(edbrain)day of random links:

Advance, or no advance: romance writer Jackie Barbosa divides the royalties pie.

This London Grip article on Emerging Trends in Business and Social Technology takes us from Consumers to Prosumers to Selfsumers to … sumer-wrestling, perhaps?

For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music  – the new Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse album.  Such a great CD,  but if someone hadn’t accidentally dropped it onto the interwebz, we’d never have heard it. There’s a legal stream here.

And finally, new book smell in a can for e-readers? Don’t be ridiculous. "Eau, you have cats!"