This! Publishing! In the Week! As we look toward our coming e-future, where we will soon be growing food on the Internet and driving flying books, there have been a series of articles putting the brakes on your technoptimism. First, writing in Slate, Jan Swafford posits that e-books and print books will have to co-exist […]
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This Week in Publishing 6/25/10
Just a quick heads-up that I’m going to be in New York next week and thus posting may be a bit sporadic. If I don’t melt in the NYC summer heat I’ll try and put some thoughts together when I can. Now then! It was a relatively quiet week in publishing this week, but I […]
[blank] Are the New Vampires
Come on, you know you want to try it. Insert your own guess in the comments. I’m going with fallen pirate apocalyptic ninja angels as the new vampire.
This Week in Publishing 10/15/09
This week! Publishing! Thursday! Here’s the schedule: – The contest is open until today at 4pm Pacific, at which time I will close it to entries faster than you can say “thank goodness no more please thank you mercy.”– Tomorrow I will announce the paragraphs I have chosen as the Stupendously Ultimate Finalists, most likely […]
This Week in Publishing 9/25/09
This! Week!…… Publishing! The saga that is the Google Books settlement looks like it’s going to take a bit longer to resolve as the Department of Justice urged some changes to the settlement, and the federal judge handling matters postponed a hearing on October 7 to give everyone some time for changes. Meanwhile: new e-reader […]
This Week in Publishing 8/29/09
This Week! The publishing! Which is on a diet this week as I have just a few links for you to peruse. There’s lots of talk out there about how e-books are better for the environment than paper books. How much better? Well, first of all, would you believe that 125 million trees are cut […]