The phone hacking scandal is far from over - but book deals have, naturally enough, been signed already.
The Guardian's Nick Davies has agreed to write about the saga - provisionally titled Hack Attack - for Chatto & Windus in Britain and Faber & Faber in the States.
It's scheduled for release in autumn next year. So it looks as though Labour MP Tom Watson will get in first because his tome, for Penguin Press, is due to be published before the end of this year.
It is being co-written with Martin Hickman of The Independent, a former journalist of the year.
There is not the least sense of competition or animosity between Davies and Watson, however. I understand they have talked about their separate projects and both agree that it is such a huge, sprawling story there is room for more than one account (indeed, more will surely follow).
Davies's book will put hacking into the wider context of Rupert Murdoch's power over governments.
One problem all writers will face in the short term is the likelihood of people being charged later this year. If that happens, the sub judice rule would kick in, certainly preventing the wide-ranging news coverage. Book authors will need to be careful too.
Note a delicious irony: Watson's book was acquired by Penguin's publishing director, Stuart Proffitt. He was, famously, the editor working at the News Corp publisher, HarperCollins, in 1998 when preparing to publish a memoir by Chris (now Lord) Patten about his difficulties as the last British governor of Hong Kong in handing over the colony to China.
Murdoch, desperate to please the Chinese authorities in order to advance the chances of his Star TV enterprise in China, refused to allow it to be published.
Proffitt, in refusing to kow-tow to Murdoch, left HarperCollins. One can only imagine his delight in piloting Watson's book to the bookshops.
Sources: Penguin PR/New York Observer/New York Times /Private information
