Whoa! What a hair-trigger temperament we have. The Amazon/Walmart price war shows how scared the book industry is these days. It is laughable that the discounting of a few books at a few online stores prompted so much hand wringing. Really. Calm down people. Forget the e-reader media frenzy. Stop wigging out about file sharing, [...]
There is publishing school for aspiring publishers and there is writing school for aspiring writers, but if you are a writer that wants to know about publishing where do you go? My former colleague Tammy Sturge faced this question when her and her two friends wished themselves down the road to authorship. They had a [...]
I have a bad memory. I wish there was a web app that would track my content consumption and make it searchable after the fact. In a few cases recently I have read or seen something on the net that wasn’t important enough to bookmark at the time, but that I wanted to find afterward [...]
TechDirt’s Mike Masnick on the economics of abundance. He trots out the classic bands/venues example, but this applies to books too.