From The Guardian:

A book looted from a US library during the American civil war has finally been returned, almost 145 years overdue.

The only stipulation of the Illinois handball coach who returned the title – the first in WFP Napier’s four-volume History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France – was that he didn’t have to pay the $52,858 fine.

Full story here.

UK publishing companies are hoping to boost their businesses by creating an online presence via the social networking site Twitter. The site has seen the number of small, independent publishers surge in the last two weeks, as companies are using the service to interact with their market.

The Daily Telegraph has the full story.