Worth Reading/Viewing The Evolution of the English Village Mystery, After the Golden Age (Deborah Crombie, CrimeReads) “Libraries are Not the Enemy:” A Guest Post from Wendy the SuperLibrarian on the Macmillan eBook Embargo (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog) The hunt for Shakespeare’s library: ‘I couldn’t stop looking if I wanted… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Authors Guild Appeals Google Ruling” to the Second Circuit Court. (Publishers Weekly) “DOJ, States… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. There’s a lot of book news this week! Books & Ebooks in the News: Goodreads will start deleting content focused… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Worth Reading: Author and president of the Author’s Guild Scott Turow wrote an opinion piece on “The Slow Death of… 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 »
I apologize for missing last week’s article roundup. It’s been another very busy two weeks, complicated by problems with my computer which kept me off it for days. So here are some of the last two weeks’ articles of interest:E0book Pricing Settlements: The biggest book-related news of this two weeks… Read more »
Sorry for the late posting! Here are some of the articles that caught my attention in the past week: On audiobooks: “Let’s Go Reading in the Car” (Judith Shulevitz, New York Times) Shulevitz links audiobooks to storytelling, and recommends some good choices for families. On libraries:“Connecticut Library to Use Overdue… Read more »
I’ve been pretty busy this week, but I did come across a few interesting articles other than the Tor/Forge announcement. “Retail DRM is an Apple. Library DRM is an Orange.” (Michael Kelley, The Digital Shift) (The apple in question is the fruit, not the hardware/media company.) “There’s a $3 Sweet… Read more »
