Well, the age is upon us. It is time for novels to become more than they ever have been. Video, music, literature… it’s all hitting the blender and the blender is on “puree.” Hold on tight.
And here is a grand experiment – an attempt to dive right into the blender without regard [...]

Malcolm Gladwell had this to say in a recent New Yorker:
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, Amazon’s new electronic reader. “They [...]

Thanks to author and media commentator Paul Levinson for this cross-posting:
I voted for Barack Obama, don’t like Fox News, and think our health system is in need of long due reform. I thought the McCain campaign was one of the worst in years, bringing lowlights ranging from Sarah Palin to Joe the Plumber on to [...]

Ok, so I don’t have a Nook in hand yet. Unlike the high-flying super famous tech bloggers of which I am pretty envious, I don’t have gadget companies sending me stuff for free in hopes that I will give a 2 thumbs up to millions of faithful readers. And, I’m too poor to [...]

From Techcrunch:
Q: Has your opinion of e-readers changed?
A: I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing. But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device. You notice Amazon [...]

I just discovered (thanks to badbadbad) a website that serves as a great resource if you are an indie publisher, looking to get published by an indie publisher or looking for places to buy indie books. Honestly, I am suprised I had not found this site before now, as it is so right up [...]

From today’s Publishers Weekly:
Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-books to any PC running Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista and read them on the PC. While the new application will allow Kindle owners to [...]

… poetry and jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven …
Report #36 is now online, featuring the poem “October” from The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems by Marc Beaudin, [...]

Last night on the Indiebookman radio show, Brad mused about my perspective on eBooks. The answer is that I do not believe printed books are endangered, and I assume there will always be new developments in the distribution of information. I don’t regard eBooks as replacements for physical books, in other words: they will simply [...]

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 [...]