Sells, Books and Gets Rich

Lynn Truss has a great new book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which has somehow managed to get to the top of Amazon's top 100. In today's Guardian, Lynn speculates about the Internet as the perfect excuse for many people to give up punctuating correctly. But it has to be said that the Web is also a perfect way of selling plenty more books, so it can't all be bad news for Lynn. By the way, the title of the book refers to a story about a panda and a misplaced comma.

On a similar note, here's a little cartoon explanation of the difference between its and it's.