Links: Free Books, Music Biz Kills Self, New Museum Expands

• Maud Newton: Blog
  Below John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s online, author of So You Want to Be President? and Fondling Your Muse, and creative director of the struggling TOW Books, explains why he’s rejecting the age-old strategy of sending review copies to newspapers, and offering them to you instead.
  (tags: publishing books marketing)
• How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself - Advertising Age - The Media Guy
  All in all, it's been a depressing summer for the delusional record industry. We're seeing a total disconnect between labels' unrealistic, old-school revenue expectations and what the market can bear.
  (tags: music business copyright)
• New Museum Buys an Adjacent Building on the Bowery - NYTimes.com
  Not even a year after it opened a new $50 million home on the Bowery, the New Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired an adjacent building for $16.6 million, museum executives said Monday. Just south of the museum at 231 Bowery, the building is a 47,000-square-foot, five-story structure now used by a restaurant-supply company. (via AFC)
  (tags: realestate nyc news art museums gallery bowery)