Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.

• British bookseller WH Smith has a “bestseller” list which is just as fake as any other. 
• A German court rules that ad-blocking browser extensions do not violate copyright law (yes, that is as a crazy as it sounds). 
• A novelist in Iowa is suing her agent for trying to steal her series and have it completed by a ghost writer. 
• Bad things can happen when your agent tries to become your publisher. 
• Wired has an overview of ebook subscription services. 
• Have you ever wondered where the word kerfuffle came from? 
• The UK govt was considering relaxing import rules on print books. Author groups managed to quash the effort.