Last year book royalties netted the Obama family between $100,000 and $200,000 in income. Vice President Biden's 2007 memoir, on the other hand, pulled in a grand total of $201.
Apple's latest iTunes temper tantrum

The National Music Publishers Association wants to raise the rate it charges Apple for each song shoppers purchase via iTunes from 9 cents to 15 cents. Apple wants to lower the rate to 4.6 cents and says that if it doesn't get its way, it might just shutter iTunes altogether. In a letter to the Copyright Royalty…