★ And In The End
What follows is a very personal post, for which I do not apologise.
What follows is a very personal post, for which I do not apologise.
Jim Hines, a science fiction author, has been collecting some data on how professional novelists broke into the profession. The goal of the survey was to [...] use actual data to confirm or bust some of the myths about making it as a novelist. Some interesting data, and some surprises. ► Jim C. Hines » [...]
Dani Shapiro on the ‘sell – or else’ mentality. If they were enrolled in medical school, in all likelihood they would wind up doctors. If in law school, better than even odds, they’d become lawyers. But writing school guarantees them little other than debt. ► A writing career becomes harder to scale – latimes.com
I’ve spent most of this morning reading through some documentation sent to me by John Jarrold, my agent, concerning the Google Book Settlement. Google is in the process of digitising books. It began this, and has continued to do so, largely without the permission of rights holders. The issues are complex. Even the summary I [...]
Further to my review of the COOL-ER eBook Reader, it’s worth noting that, elsewhere, the Internet is lighting up with comments, speculation and reviews about the coming storm in publishing that is the digitisation of literature. Check out this MacWorld story. It outlines the ten new ebook readers announced or released at CES this week. [...]
My review of the device, together with some comments on how ebook readers might affect publishing, can be found as a guest post over at Scott Pack’s blog today.
For those of you who don’t know – and there’s no reason, perhaps, that you should – DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it is a technology by which content distributors (record companies, for the most part) attempt to control how a customer experiences their product. Now, audiobooks. The starting pistol for Internet-distributed audiobooks [...]
Matt Curran has some interesting things to say about remaindered books over at his blog.
Scott Pack replies to a Guardian piece by Stuart Jeffries that (according to Scott; I haven’t read it) is another ‘why can’t bookshops be like the old days’ article. Among other things, Scott writes: Less than a decade ago it would have been possible to walk into a branch of Waterstone’s, especially some of the [...]
Here’s an interesting presentation by Dutch Internet strategist Freek Bijl on how vertical integration between the iTunes music store and the iPod might be applied to publishing, with reference to the fabled Apple tablet device. ► How Would Apple Change Publishing? Here’s One Theory | Cult of Mac