Worth Reading: “Enough Feisty Princesses: Disney Needs an Introverted Heroine” (Lindsay Lowe, The Atlantic) “Plagiarism and the link: How the web makes attribution easier — and more complicated” (Matthew Ingram, paidContent) “The Used eBook Trojan Horse” (ebookp*rn blog) Books & Ebooks in the News: “Book of Kells now Free to… Read more »
Worth reading: “The Death of Publishing,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Rusch explains why predictions of the death of publishing were wrong, and how traditional publishers are now making more money while their authors are making less. Cool Stuff: Check out the 3Doodler, a pen that lets you draw… Read more »
I’ve got some fun stuff on this week’s News & Notes. You’ll also notice that I’m still tweaking the format for this feature, going for shorter descriptions and more lists of links. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think! Worth Reading: Author Susan Froetschel (Fear of Beauty)… Read more »
“National Book Awards: Genre fiction dissed again”. A well written article on the tendency of literary awards (and literary critics and readers of literary fiction generally) to ignore even superlative fiction if it falls within a genre such as mystery/crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and so forth. (Laura Miller, Salon) … Read more »
Kobo has joined the big players in more ways than one. In addition to being (apparently) the third main competitor to Amazon in ebook sales (behind Barnes & Noble and Apple), Kobo will now offer a whole family of e-reader devices, according to a September 6 announcement.Kobo already had an… Read more »
I found quite a collection of interesting blog posts and articles this week, on a whole host of book- and reading-related topics. Last week, Momentum (an Australian subsidiary of Macmillan whose e-books are available in the U.S.) announced it will drop DRM from its e-books. They’ve now published an explanation… Read more »
This week I came across two wonderful posts about indexing (which happens to be my profession.) If you’ve ever wondered why indexes need to be prepared by human beings instead of computers, Carol Saller at The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog explains (“Book Indexing, Part 1: Is a… Read more »
