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The Yahoo Publisher Network is having problems, and in an online world where things often resolve themselves in a matter of minutes, Yahoo has said, “We are actively addressing the issue and expect improvements by next week.”  Hey, Sunday morning’s only 80 or so hours away!

Site publishers have wanted a faster payment method than waiting for snail mail to bring a check for their ad display earnings.

Penguin Books and De Montfort University have launched an intriguing new project that they've described as "an experiment in creative writing and community." The experiment's objective: for a large group of volunteer writers to create a single, preferably coherent novel. Oh, and the title of the "wikinovel" will be A Million Penguins.

Jensense writes that a growing number of publishers are seeing hackers edit their websites, substituting the publisher's AdSense ID for another, in order to basically steal that publisher's revenue.

German publisher WGB dropped its petition for preliminary injunction against Google Books Library Project this week. Google says the Copyright Chamber of the Regional Court of Hamburg advised the company the petition would not succeed.

The formerly-named MSN Book Search appears to have a new name to go along with its online debut.

Yahoo has followed up last fall's launch of its Publisher Network with a new blog focused on helping users of its self-serve platform.

If you create an email newsletter in Microsoft Publisher, you have probably run into the same problem that I did - distributing the newsletter after creating it.