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Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’

Amazon V. Apple, some simple initial thoughts…

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 [...]

Tor.com, Cory Doctorow, & the return of serialized sci-fi.

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 [...]

An open letter to the reading public,

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 [...]

Change in Publishing (is not the same or = to) the “death” of publishing, or the book!

Today I saw a link to a great blog post that was sent out on Twitter by The Book Oven. The post was writen by Mr. Richard Eoin Nash who works at a very wonderful indie publisher called Soft Skull Press.
Correction: It was pointed out the Nash no longer works at Soft Skull. [...]

Text Edit 002

The second episode of Text Edit is now live. Text Edit #002u
In this show I talk a bunch about how the iPhone / iPod touch app Stanza is amazing, and wonderful.
You should download Stanza after you listen to the show.
-N

Text Edit 001 (a podcast)

I’ve been out of the loop with podcasting for a bit now.  For way to long really, it is past time for me to try to podcast again.  For the past several days I’ve been thinking about what king of content I would like to podcast about, and I made a list of several subjects.
After [...]