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Nov 11 2008 8:42am EDT

Idle Chatter: Books, Super Bowl Ads and Monkeys

-Publishers are fearing the worst holiday book sales they've seen in a while. Don't people know that getting laid off is a great chance to catch up on your reading? [NYT]

-The economic downturn is causing some marketers to think twice about buying Super Bowl ads. That said, NBC is in relatively good shape, having sold most of its inventory by September. [WSJ]

-The Ad Council is asking its members to stop using real great apes in their commercials. But then how will we ever know how tough a suitcase is? [PETA]

-An accused murderer in Canada apparently modeled his crime after the killings on Showtime's Dexter. And this after Dexter's writers tried to ward off would-be imitators by writing a lame-o copycat killer into the plot. [NYP]

-Jack Shafer thinks the obituaries for Matt Drudge's influence are premature. [Slate]. □

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