Worth Reading: “Why does Magic Need So Many Rules?” Fantasy author N. K. Jemison (The Killing Moon) explores whether magic in fantasy really needs to make sense, have a price, and conform to an internally logical system. (io9) “Five reasons why stats don’t matter and you shouldn’t care” (Cuddlebuggery blog) … 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 »
Cover fail: This is just so wrong, I’m still shaking my head in disbelief. So, apparently, are a lot of other folks. I guess that whoever self-published these three public-domain novels hasn’t actually read them. On a happier note, Joe Konrath posted an excellent article on “How to sell ebooks”… Read more »
A bonus issue of News & Notes this week! Heads up — The second annual Take Your Child to the Library Day is Feb. 2, 2013! If your library isn’t participating, let them know about it this event, and take your kids anyway. There’s more information and a link to… Read more »
I missed posting this feature last week, so I’m including a few articles that appeared during that week as well as the past week. Publishing and self-publishing: Top of my list this week is David Vinjamuri’s terrific piece over at Forbes, “Publishing Is Broken; We’re Drowning in Indie Books… Read more »
There were some interesting articles about ebooks this week, including a few new approaches I hadn’t come across before. To begin with, there’s Digital Book World’s “When Growth In Children’s Ebooks Hits the Poverty Line”, which argues that children’s ebooks may be outstripped by ebooks for adults for some time… Read more »
Here are some articles I’ve found of interest this week: New research from Library Resource Services indicates that test scores are higher in schools with an endorsed librarian (as opposed to a library staffed solely by parent volunteers and/or a library aide.) — School Library Journal “No Surprise, E-reader Use… Read more »
The biggest e-book story of the past few weeks has to be the growing reluctance of large publishers to allow libraries to lend their e-books. The ALA’s meetings with top publishers, while reportedly amicable, did so little to relieve publishers’ concerns that library lending of e-books will reduce e-book sales… Read more »
