Posts under ‘Books’

Today a friend, and fellow Sci-Fi enthusiast, told me that I should read a book called “Empire” by Orson Scott Card. Having read a fair amount of Card’s work in the past I recently picked up the Empire and read the first two chapters.
There is one bit of test in the second [...]

For people who might not follow this story all ready, here is a brief recap for you:
1. Amazon’s Kindle ruled the ebook market despite limited competition from a few other companies like Sony and Barns & Noble.
-It seemed that Amazon liked selling most ebooks for about $9.99 even though publishers wanted to sell ebooks [...]

I saw via Mitch Joel who saw via the Wall Street Journal that Amazon is lowering the price of the entry level Kindle to $259.00 USD. In addition to that the Kindle’s wireless fucntions will now work outside the US.
Going to Amazon.com confirmed this…
Looks like Amazon is really hoping to move [...]

I’ve been doing lots of thinking about what makes a book “lit” or as “art”(more than a book).  I’m guessing that the answer will be very different depending  on who is asked, but for me the answer is that books that make me really feel something are the books I elevate to the status of [...]

Recently I found out via twitter that Cory Doctorow is offering his new novel “Makers” for free, which is nothing out of the ordinary, Doctorow has made all of his books 100% freely available through the web for many years now. However, what makes this new novel titled “Makers” different is the distro method which [...]

Dear Reading Public,
I have said this again and again, and now I’m going to say it again. I honestly don’t know why I keep saying it over and over, maybe I think that if I say it (or write it, podcast it, email it, or whatever) enough, it will sink in.
Print is [...]