Book Buzz: Beautiful jackets, Margaret Atwood's online publishing

Here's a look at what's buzzing in the book world today:

Atwood's innovative publishing: Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is writing a new novel called Positron. But don't look for it in hardcover - she's writing it in serial form on the website Byliner. Listen to her explain the new frontier of online publishing on NPR.

Memoir madness:The Guardian's Venn diagram connecting the common themes in memoirs published this year - from authors Salman Rushdie to R. Kelly to Uggie - is both amusing and enlightening.

Goodreads by the numbers: Social reading site Goodreads doubled in size in 2012, with more than 13 million members writing more than 20 million reviews. Gone Girl was the most reviewed book. The most quoted? "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once," from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Find out more in their infographic.

Read these!: Have a few post-Christmas Amazon and Barnes & Noble gift cards to use up? Check out these 10 books USA TODAY's critics loved in 2012. There's something for everyone - from a vintage George Pelecanos' crime novel to a biography of Joseph P. Kennedy.

Beautiful books: Go ahead, judge a book by its cover! Flip through The New York Times' favorite book cover designs of the year.