The Duke rape case accuser, Crystal Mangum, will release her memoir The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story in October, writes GalleyCat. "It isn't about making money," says the book's co-author and independent publisher, Vincent Clark. "She really wants to set the record straight." Clark's company will also publish a book by Marion Jones's drug dealer. "Clark seems to be developing this niche that could be just plain exploitative or it could be legitimate," writes Survival of the Book, "in trying to publish voices getting maligned in the press who are problematic but are also, to some extent, in a position in society in which that are marginalized. . . . they could offer an interesting perspective on a story we all, as a nation, know due to media hysteria."

Meanwhile, If you've just been meaning to get around to reading all the books on the Booker Prize  shortlist, here's good news: Excerpts from all of them can be sent to your cell phone for free. "You'll be able to get the extracts as either audio or text (though, hopefully, not text-speak)," writes David Barnett at the Guardian's Book Blog. He also notes that "those tech-hungry Japanese are well ahead of us on this," with mobile phone novels "intended to be read on screen, with cliffhanger episodes and 160-characters per 'page'. The Japanese model tends towards the fast, the furious and the melodramatic. This is the first time that something with as much literary clout as the Man Booker has made the transfer to the mobile phone."

More book news: Amazon.com has bought Shelfari, the social networking site for book lovers, only a few weeks after they acquired AbeBooks. Amazon holds a stake in competing site LibraryThing, because AbeBooks had invested in it, but the two "could conceivably be merged together," says PaidContent. TeleRead is worried that one company "will preside over so much social discourse about books" and that Amazon might one day try to "link social capabilities with specific hardware devices." PersonaNonData graphs the unique visitors to both sites--LibraryThing gets more traffic for now, but that could soon change.

Finally, moving back to the printed page, The Millions has poetry recommendations for non-poetry buffs, from three different contributors. "Milton is great but he's a workout," writes Emily. "His syntax can be a bit like taking part in WWF Smackdown for some readers."