Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com

• Charles Stross: CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights – If you're an author and you rely on your North American rights, you'll be on the bread line. To actually earn a living, you really need to exploit other territorial and language rights.
• Charles Stross: CMAP #3: What Authors sell to Publishers – The rights of authors, and how they are managed, parceled out, sold and compensated for.
• Charles Stross: CMAP #2: How Books Are Made – It is a common misconception that "the only two people that matter are the author and the reader (one puts creativity in, the other money: the rest add cost)". To be direct: a manuscript is not a book. The author's job is to write the manuscript. The publisher's job is to turn a series of manuscripts originating from different suppliers into consistently produced books, mass-produce them, and sell them into distribution channels.
• Charles Stross: Common Misconceptions About Publishing: #1 – Publishing is a recondite, bizarre, and downright strange industry which is utterly unlike anything a rational person would design to achieve the same purpose (which I will loosely define for now as "put authors books into the hands of readers while making a profit, to the satisfaction of all concerned").
• TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman – The riddle of experience vs. memory – About how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. When choosing a vacation, if you knew in advance that at the end you'd be given an amnesic drug and all your photos would be deleted, would you choose a different kind of vacation?