Oh. I forgot to mention yesterday. In case you hadn’t heard. Amazon announced that the Kindle is going international. Except Canada. Sorry Canada – you still have to read your books on paper.

So, I got my fourth and final “Abe’s Penny” the other day (Volume 1.7). Four postcards in all. I love them. If you didn’t catch it, I first posted about Abe’s Penny here.

According to editor Anna Knoebel:

We call Abe’s Penny a micro-magazine. Each issue is a series of four postcards with a [...]

I get the “Shelf Awareness” newsletter in my inbox everyday – it’s a great source of news and happenings in the publishing world.

But today, care of a special “dedicated” issue, I ran across something interesting. This “special issue” seems to have been sponsored by HarperStudios, as it’s really kind of a trumpet piece for [...]

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It’s midnight at cartoonist Rebecca Migdal’s studio and the artist has settled in for a night of colorizing a page from her classic 1997 Zombie Punk comic, for posting online at 6 AM. These late night comics creation sessions have been her ritual since April, when she launched her Rosetta Stone: A Paramnesium webcomic and [...]

Slate today has an interesting little article about how Sony can beat the Kindle. Essentially, they boil their suggested strategy down to the following: “Study everything the iPod’s rivals did. Then do the exact opposite.”
Heh.
Since I love my iPhone as much as I am wary of the Kindle, this sentence could have [...]

I knew Spain Rodriguez about 17 years ago back when the Mission District of San Francisco was a vibrant arts scene. He was teaching comic book drawing at the Mission Cultural Center and my son and I were in his class. By then this was long past his wild man underground days—he’d settled down with [...]