Sherwood has a
guest post at Charlie Stross's blog on the history of English-language publishing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It began when [Curll] first pirated Pope, prompting the poet and his publisher to meet Curll at the Swan, where they slipped a mega dose of "physic" (think ExLax) into his drink.
Crossposted to
http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/1179155.html. Comment here or there.