August 2011
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“Going through SVH again, I was struck by just how much I disliked Elizabeth:...”
– Genevieve Koski, Memory Wipe: Sweet Valley High, The AV Club
Shockingly, Sweet Valley High does not withstand the test of time. I, too, favoured Elizabeth Wakefield back then, but I think I’ll draw similar conclusions if I were to reread the books today.
Why isn’t there any love for...
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Digital publishing may have had an adverse effect... →
(I refuse to indulge hyperbolic headlines.)
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WSJ: New economics rewrite book business. →
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“‘I think it’s degrading of you, Flora,’ cried Mrs Smiling at breakfast. ‘Do you...”
– Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (via charlottecollection)
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ann patchett's lessons on writing →
paperbackgirl:
this article has some key excerpts from her piece on byliner, the full text of which is being sold as a kindle single for $2.99.
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Men go for tablets, women go for e-readers. →
GigaOm thinks this could be because women read more than men, and maybe even prefer single purpose gadgets.
Tablets are also shinier and more expensive…
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“If we somehow stumble upon an incredible archive of, say, digitized “rare” vinyl...”
– Maria Popova, Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance, Nieman Journalism Lab
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What may or may not work for digital publishing in... →
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Booktracks adds soundtracks to e-books. →
Can you imagine? You see someone at a coffee shop with earphones plugged into his multimedia device, and you begin to wonder what he’s reading.
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Paper use may drop by 21% in four years. →
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Amazon to offer a deal a day for the Kindle. →
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A history of editing Wikipedia's entry on... →
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"From NaNoWriMo to 6-figure advance." →
We dream about this, don’t we?
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Nasa partners Tor/Forge to promote "science-based... →
File this under “Most Excellent, Sir”.
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List of writerly types on Google+. →
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Google Launches Editor's Picks. And the Editors... →
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Another self-published writing team gets a... →
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Melville House brings digital to print with... →
The idea is that users can aim their magic phones at one of those barcode thingies (known as a Quick Response or QR) on the back of a print book to access supplemental material that the publisher is calling “illuminations.” Purchasers of the electronic books will have access to the extras within their digital copies.
“For example, The Illumination for the HybridBook version of Anton...
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There's a style guide for everything, including... →
Personally, I just like funny Tweets. :)
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Coming soon: e-autographs for e-books. →
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Facebook acquires Push Pop Press. →
From the article:
But all that doesn’t mean that Facebook will be getting into the digital-publishing business. According to Push Pop Press, Facebook is acquiring the company for its technology, which will be used in some way on the world’s largest social network.
The publishing industry really needs a new breed of younger, tech-savvy leaders, so all I have to say to this is:...
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Here's a Spotify playlist to go with your copy of... →
Jason Boog of Galleycat, YOU KEEL ME!
