There have been several interesting articles on the future of publishing, e-books, and tablet computers recently. Over at CNN, Amy Gahran writes about the potential market for smaller tablets, looking primarily at the Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and forthcoming Kobo Vox. At PBS’s MediaShift, Jenny Shank gives 5 Reasons E-Books… Read more »
Simon Owens at MediaShift has an article about SF/Fantasy novelist Tim (T. A.) Pratt’s creativity in financing his writing after Random House failed to renew his contract. Rather than leave his fans in the lurch partway through a series, Pratt asked them to subsidize an online serial publication of the… Read more »
A year or two ago (probably closer to two), I received Book Collector, a book cataloging program from Collectorz, as a gift. I had researched a number of options for cataloging my books, from online catalogs like LibraryThing to shareware programs. Book Collector looked like the best bet, largely because… Read more »
Book-A-Minute purports to offer “ultra-condensed” versions of the classics you know you should have read, along with an extensive selection of SF/Fantasy and children’s books, so that you can read them in considerably less time than the full-length version would require. In fact, this is a humor site, strictly for… Read more »
If you love mysteries and can hardly wait for your favorite author’s next book, you’ve probably spent hours trolling Amazon, publisher, and author websites trying to figure out when that book will be available. (I certainly have!) Thanks to Ashley McConnell, you won’t have to waste a lot of time… Read more »
Joe Konrath, successful thriller author and promoter of self-publishing, recently blogged about getting rid of some of his [paper] books. According to Konrath, he has replaced a number of them with e-books, and plans to replace many of the remaining books. Judging by the 150-plus comments he’s gotten, he struck… Read more »
You don’t expect earthquakes in Virginia. It’s true that central Virginia is slightly more likely to have seismic activity than a lot of the rest of the East Coast, but that’s not saying much. There is a fault line running through Virginia, part of what was once a tectonic plate… Read more »
Puns are everywhere, from Shakespeare (“Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York”) to marketing (a camping store’s off-season slogan: “Now is the winter of our discount tent”.) In The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and… Read more »
[My 16-year-old daughter, an aspiring writer, wrote this piece about the end — or not — of an era.] Ten years ago, I read a book that changed my life. For ten years, I have read and reread, discussed, speculated about, walked, talked, acted, and dressed Potter. I’ve grown up… Read more »
J. K. Rowling has announced a new website, which will officially open in October. It will offer interactive online versions of the books, beginning with the first book (including Sorting Hat questions and a Wand Chooser.) The second book will be added to the site in 2012. In addition, the… Read more »
