Nathan Bransford | Writing, Book Editing, Publishing
Helping authors achieve their dreams
This week! Books! Massive, massive news for the publishing industry, and, in truth, for all US antitrust law as the DOJ successfully convinced Judge Florence Pan that Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster would create a monopsony that would harm authors. This is particularly notable because antitrust precedent over the past 50 […]
As if my blogging hasn’t sporadic enough with the craziness of the holidays, next week is CES, land of 100″ TVs and 18-hour-work days! Yes, I am headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where the devices of tomorrow are gawked at by the nerds of today. It’s always a lot of fun, […]
Hofball in Wien – Wilhelm Gause Amid all the uproar over Facebook’s latest redesign of the newsfeed and some possibly huge pending announcements today (disclosure: links are to CNET, I work for CNET, and all views expressed herein are completely my own), there were some… well, murmurs in my feeds about Facebook having jumped the […]
It’s a battle as old as time. Or, er, at least as old as when Twitter launched “New Twitter” last year. RT or the Retweet Button? In this corner, you have the Old School, the way people always used to pass along a fun or hilarious or awesome or interesting or all of the above […]
It’s 2011. We’re more than a decade into the 21st Century. Still no flying cars, but Twitter has been around for five years now. And it’s time we all banded together to make sure our friends and family members and followers and followees understand one of the most crucial and oft-misunderstood functions in social media. […]
I’ll be honest, I was a bit skeptical of The Twitter when it first appeared on the social media scene. “What’s that you say?” I asked. “140 characters? What can you do with that?” Turns out: A lot actually. Twitter is awesome. Awesome I tell you! It is the end of boredom, it is an […]
Helping authors achieve their dreams
