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I’m sure I heard about this before, but it still comes as news to me today, airhead that I am. Lost Agatha Christie tale debuts Saturday: An unpublished Agatha Christie short story, The Capture of Cerberus, will appear in print for the first time on Saturday. The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain has acquired [...] AmazonFail Yegods. Every day now, Amazon is up to something nasty again. It’s hard to keep up. And I’d really rather write about good stuff. From Pogue’s Posts in the New York Times, “Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others:” This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a [...] You know, I don’t even go looking for this stuff about Amazon, but it just seems to be busting out all over, lately. I keep thinking, as I watch this sort of thing happening more and more, “Who do they think they are — General Motors??” (Meaning, of course, the old General Motors before [...] I don’t think any of my usual readers are in New York, but in case anyone drops by, something really cool is happening tomorrow: the very firstAsian American Comicon. According to this Publishers Weekly article, “Asian American Comicon Debuts in New York,” the con actually grew out of a panel discussion related to Secret Identities, [...] No, alas, I’m not at Book Expo America. But today I’m really blessing Twitter, because I’ve been following a long stream of tweets that people are making from the convention. First of all, for those who don’t know, this is a major convention for the North American publishing industry. It’s being held this year at [...] Apple isn’t the progressive, hip ol’ company it wants people to think it is. It’s a moralistic prig (not to mention a bloody hypocritical one), and certainly is an American company that contradicts all that “land of the free, home of the brave” stuff. … [...] …according to critics, part of the settlement would allow Google to get exclusive license to millions of “orphan books,” whose authors or rights-holders are unknown. Eventually, Google would pretty much own every book ever written, or have exclusive access. … [...] I just heard about something starting in the U.K. that could be a great thing, and I hope it catches on in North America. The People’s Book Prize website is going to launch on June 1, 2009, but there’s already some information there. This is going to be a prize which doesn’t have a select [...] Ha! And here I thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was going way out there. (Ooh, look at that link! They have Jane Austen listed as the author. Hahahaha! Ahem.) (Though I suppose she has to be mentioned, since the zombies are sort of “injected” into the main story.) That book was published last week, [...] The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has named the winners of the first Indies Choice Book Awards for 2009. This is an honour given to reflect the spirit of independent bookstores — a group that’s been diminishing in recent years because of internet book-buying, ebooks, and other changes in the industry. Although this is the “first” [...] |
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