The Atlantic is Publishing Two Stories a Month -- But Only for the Kindle
Like many, I was sad when the Atlantic decided some years ago to stop publishing monthly fiction, making the number of magazines paying real money for short fiction countable on the fingers of one...
View ArticleWhy I Hate Cory Doctorow
First, yes I've read his books. Well, some of them. Well, part of one of them. I got fed up and stopped because it was stupid and poorly written. But that's neither here nor there. The fact of the...
View ArticleA Real Solution to the Piracy Problem
Given that I recently went off on a bit of a rant about Cory Doctorow and his repeated failure to propose a workable solution for the problem of online piracy, I thought I would take a few minutes and...
View ArticleRichard Nash on the Future of Publishing
Richard Nash has become like publishing jesus, and his talks sound like sermons from the mount.
View ArticleWhy Robin Sloan is the Future of Publishing (and Science Fiction)
On his blog, Robin Sloan describes himself as a "writer and media inventor." I'm not entirely sure what a "media inventor" is, but I assume it has something to do with how he manages to break just...
View ArticleThe Ebook Reader Landscape Changes Again, Translation Dictionaries Are Buried...
After the vertigo-inducing price drops in the Kindle and Nook a month ago, the other ebook reader producers have unveiled their new lines and strategies (though in some cases, as with the Cool-Er...
View ArticleOn Ebook Piracy
Had a long argument recently with a writer who was upset about how her books have been pirated as her sales have gone down. She went so far as to say that she thought every ebook should come with a...
View ArticleFuck Amazon.com
If you weren't yet aware, Amazon is a fucking evil empire and they need to fucking go to hell. Here is some reading on the topic:The Author's Guild on Amazon and it's Monopolistic practices.Also,...
View ArticleEbooks Really Are More Profitable Than Print Books
So you remember some years ago there was a lot of hubbub in publishing about how people wanted to pay less for ebooks than print books because of the perception that the distribution and printing costs...
View Article"The Spine of Worlds" is Coming
My story, "The Spine of Worlds" will appear in Kaleidotrope in 2015.
View ArticleWhy Amazon Wins
Remember not so long ago I complained about Amazon's ebook download links disappearing? Well, they're back; I can download my Kindle books form the website again, just in time for my employer to be...
View ArticleThoughts on Ed Champion and his Detractors
So Salon.com, one of the three heads--along with tumblr and jezebel.com-- of the cerberus guarding the left wing of the outrage porn industrial complex, has published a hit piece on Ed Champion over...
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