Publishing: Frankfurt Book Fair’s roundtalbe discussion this year was on ebooks and who control the market. Futurebook reports back. The outlook for European publishers is decidedly less bleak than for America, since Amazon doesn’t have the stranglehold here that it does there. However, the UK the demise of the bookshop if pretty apparent; most highstreets still have a gap where Borders used to be.

Interest-Piquing: It’s National Coming Out Day today. Sadly, the star of one of India’s first maintstream movies about gay characters has been disowned by his parents, and the film is under threat of censorship.

InsPiring: The politics of pants. Technically, it’s still illegal for women to wear trousers in France. Disney Prince and princess stereotypes.

Procrastination: Johnny Depp starts a school mutiny after a girl writes to him.

(Also, Virgin Galactic’s Enterprise makes its first solo flight. Well, I’m excited!)