One good piece of news for authors not made clear here, is that the incentive for authors is much better on ebooks. (gigaom.com)
The one good piece of news in this is that when / if you sell your XRP (or change it back to BTC), you will get a capital loss for the value that XRP dropped. (masterthecrypto.com)
Here's the other good piece of news about the new MX - 5. (driving.ca)