I don’t think this is going to end up substituting for opera as we know it; I think it might draw more people in, and widen their perspectives. [...]
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I’m not really slagging the Kindle today (I’m being passive), but the people at Green Apple Books have put up some amusing videos both at their blog, The Green Apple Core, and on their YouTube channel. They’re setting the Kindle battling with books, and so far they’re on round 6. You’ll have to watch the [...] First off — sorry I’ve been scarce lately! Again I’ve been writing my brains out, hoping to cram enough work in so that the rent cheque won’t bounce next Monday. Ugh. But in other news, have a look at this article on the MultiMedia & Internet @Schools site: Libraries for a Postliterate Society, by Doug [...] 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 [...] The article asks, “Could something like Twitter host Canada’s next great literary trend?” To which my answer would be, “Of course.” … [...] Of course, I’m three weeks late with this, but I’ve been swamped (again) and am just catching up on interesting things. Seth Harwood, in true Seth Harwood fashion after writing and promoting Jack Wakes Up: A Novel, online and in social media before it was ever picked up by a publisher, is now out promoting [...] I suddenly realize why, even though I enjoyed the various incarnations of Star Trek, I never really wanted to live in their world even though I would definitely love space travel and exploring new worlds and so on. But those people had no things. … [...] 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 [...] The Blood on the Page blog for Bantam Dell’s Suspense Book Club has had several posts recently from or about Seth Harwood, whose new book, Jack Wakes Up, just hit the bookstores on May 5th. Often the featured authors blog about the writing process for their book, or post YouTube videos, or give information [...] …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. … [...] |
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