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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 [...]

Text Edit 005: It’s NOT the “death of the book”.

So recently I’ve been seeing lots of people write about “the death of the book” here on the internet , and it has been needling away at me.
What I think is that right now the book is going through a change, which reminds me of the change that the album went through recently.
The [...]

eBook hacks 001

I’ve been thinking about doing a regular series of posts here on NGdC about ways to get eBooks for cheap or for free. This series will be called “eBook hacks”. This post is the first post in that series.
Today I want to make people aware of a way to get some really great tech books [...]

Text Edit 004

In Text Edit 004 I talk about how I think the act of reading text stays the same, regardless of what the text appears on.
Example: Reading text on paper V. Reading text on a iPhone, or a Kindle IS STILL READING TEXT.
I’m really cerious to see, or hear, what people think [...]

Text Edit 003

Been a bit, but I have a new Text Edit Podcast for anyone who wants to listen to it.
This one talks about how I use a book to help me get some sleep.
Hope that you like it.
-N

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 [...]