Wired put together a Wish List of features for Kindle 2.0. Most aren't surprising but I absolutely love the idea of content subscription for books.

Quoted:The rumblings in the ground are pointing to an imminent Kindle 2.0, a successor to Amazon's loved but flawed e-book reader. The Kindle has effectively dropped

The Orwell diaries will be released online starting August 9th, one entry per day, as a blog at orwelldiaries.wordpress.com. Nice!

Scott Berkun has a new book that looks interesting. This one is on prioritization.

Quoted: Editor Project manager and writer Scott Berkun knows how to get things done when you've got a team of people

Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?

Ouch. Silicon Alley Insider (via Clusterstock) doesn't seem to believe Borders is better off "going it alone" and running their own website.

Quoted: Borders hopes that taking its site in-house will compensate for its sputtering bricks-and-mortar store business. Unfortunately, it's more likely Borders will now be able to fail at two businesses instead of one.

Quoted: Seth Godin's riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.

Philip K. Dick's Ubik may be brought to the big-screen.

Quoted: Philip K Dick's paranoid novels have spawned a ton of action movies from Blade Runner to Paycheck but they've only recently started to be seen as fodder for art films like Scanner Darkly. And now one of Dick's weirdest books, Ubik, has just been optioned by Celluloid Dreams, a European company better known for producing or distributing movies like Son Of Rambow, Persepolis and I'm Not There. Dick's daughter, Isa Dick-Hackett, will co-produce the movie and says that Celluloid Dreams' vision is close to her own.

A list of 1,001 books to read before you die.