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Category Archives: ebook publishing
Eye doc praises Kindle as gizmo for sight-impaired
“The Amazon Kindle 2, holds a lot of promise for patients that have poor vision as a result of macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma or any ocular condition that impairs vision.” – Blog item by Richard Driscoll, owner of Total Eye Care, in the Dallas area.
Related: Damn it, Obama, when are you gonna get [...] Continue reading
Thoughts on eContent, Free Content and Pricing Model Options
I’ve been meaning to link to this Read-it-First article from Book Business but it didn’t appear on their website till recently. Now that’s it’s up I would encourage everyone in the publishing world to read it. It’s an interview Matt Steinmetz did with Matthew Baldacci of St. Martin’s Press and it talks about an initiative [...] Continue reading
New Zealand publishers set action plan to boost digital industry
Editor’s Note: I found the below blog post especially interesting. It’s by Martin Taylor, the Director of the New Zealand Publishing Forum and is reproduced with his permission. As Martin says, the post might interest readers curious about the smaller international markets. Just how do people there see the ebook opportunity, and what are and [...] Continue reading
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Damn it, Obama, when are you gonna get this e-book thing? Check out Donalyn Miller’s literacy efforts and connect the dots!
Barack Obama drew a $500,000 advance for a children’s book, a mere five days before swearing a presidential oath. I’m happy for him. Literacy has served The First Reader well. So has technology—as shown by his fondness for BlackBerry-style devices and using the Net to raise campaign money.
Why, then, isn’t the First Reader more [...] Continue reading
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Kindling interest in the American short story
Could the Kindle and similar e-readers revive interest in the American short story? That’s the question raised in a New York Times item, by A.O. Scott.
"The new, post-print literary media are certainly amenable to brevity, a genuine advantage for reading off a screen," Scott writes. "The blog post and the tweet may be ephemeral [...] Continue reading
True or April Fools’ joke? Amazon said to be deleting book reviews that authors write with promo in mind
I’ve just established an outpost on Amazon for promoting The Solomon Scandals.
The standard advice from book-marketing gurus, furthermore, is to review other writers’ titles on Amazon and along the way mention your own book in your signature line. I might do that.
But wait! Has Amazon started deleting reviews with such .sig lines, as [...] Continue reading
Should Jonathan Stone do Twitter?
"Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream[s]—and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital reading devices." – New York Times.
The TeleRead take: I’ve got mixed—very mixed—feelings about this.
In The Solomon Scandals, my reporter protagonist can’t bypass [...] Continue reading
Stanza adds dictionary in version 1.8
The new version of the Stanza e-reader, for the iPhone and Touch, includes a dictionary.
How to use it? Hold down your finger on the screen and watch it show yellow, then go to a white-on-black arrangement.
You can then follow the easy on-screen instructions to select which words to define. Exit by tapping [...] Continue reading
All Kindled up, Rupert Murdoch might invest in K-rival—ideally with a color screen
Back in 2007 Theresa Horner—then the senior director of eBooks at HarperCollins, Rupert Murdoch’s book publisher—put in a good word for e-readers as displaying newspapers as well as books and other items. I’d said the same thing, too. In fact, Jon Noring and I had tried to interest the Washington Post in developing OpenReader.
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The rise of comic books as lit
"’Comics, meanwhile, have profited from the canny coinage ‘graphic novel,’ designed to imply an intellectual and narrative heft greater than that of simple strip cartoons, although most creators and fans disdain the term. When told that he wrote graphic novels rather than comic books, Neil Gaiman wrote bemusedly: ‘I felt like someone who’d been [...] Continue reading