Worth Reading: “What If the Google Reader Readers Just Don’t Come Back?” (MC Siegler, TechCrunch) “A new candidate for “World’s Worst Index” — and some indexing advice” for self-publishers, from Michael N. Marcus. As an indexer, the indexes shown here make me both cringe and laugh hysterically. This is why… Read more »
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: “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 »
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 »
Worth Reading: Is Sherlock Holmes still under copyright? Leslie Klinger, Holmesian scholar and co-editor (with Laurie R. King) of the recent short-story collection, A Study in Sherlock, is suing the Conan Doyle estate. The estate recently demanded licensing fees be paid for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, an upcoming… Read more »
News and Notes will be replacing the “Recent Articles” feature. I’d like to expand beyond linking to interesting articles; News and Notes will still include links to interesting articles and blog posts, but now I’ll have more freedom to add other stuff: book giveaways on other blogs, bargains or freebies… Read more »
Free YA ebook! Tera Lyn Childs’ Sweet Venom is available free in the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony stores. (If you have another ePub reader, you can purchase books at Kobo or Sony, or check your favorite ePub retailer.) The sequel, Sweet Shadows, just came out this month. Giveaways on… Read more »
Several of the blogs I read have great giveaways going on this week: The Book Smugglers have two books available: an ARC of Libba Bray’s The Diviners (through Sept. 22) and an ARC of Phoebe North’s YA SF novel, Starglass (through Sept. 29.) The Midnight Garden is giving away… Read more »
The Midnight Garden blog is having a Rae Carson giveaway contest: an ARC of the forthcoming The Crown of Embers (due out on Sept. 18), along with a hardcover copy of the first book in the series, Girl of Fire and Thorn. The former has been on my TBR list,… Read more »
