Just-issued book author apologizes in her blog for getting the outcome wrong:

"[...] I had just submitted the final version of my book manuscript a week before Microsoft announced its $44 billion bid to buy Yahoo.
[Then] I updated my chapters to reflect the possibility Microsoft might end up buying Yahoo. Then I revised again to say Microsoft did buy Yahoo [...]. Right before my drop-dead go-to-printer date, I revised one last time, saying that Microsoft might or might not buy Yahoo. [...]"
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/a-big-whoops/

Ooops! Seems to me none of this would've happened had major book publishers seen the writing.... er, publishing on the wall, and banded together to underwrite development of a truly portable, open-format (and ultimately subsidized by ebook sales, as cell phones are subsidized by service contracts) WiFired book reader/ web tablet device akin to iPhone with 4x bigger screen, good display ergonomy, great bookmarking and annotation, in short DotReader on it.... http://www.dotreader.com/site/files/images/dotReader_PDA_view1.jpg
http://www.dotreader.com/site/