Links: Bullish on Hirst, Bearish on Books

• Does Hirst Auction Point to Bull Market for Art? - WSJ.com
  "British artist Damien Hirst's bold strategy to bypass his galleries and take his art to auction paid off Monday night when Sotheby's in London sold £70.5 million ($127 million) of his pickled animals and polka-dotted canvases."
  (tags: art business auctions)
• Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? -- New York Magazine
  The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have to look for its future outside the corporate world.
  (tags: books publishing media business)