Chris-Anderson

In Re the Changing Face of Business of Publishing

There are a few very interesting (and some long) pieces on the current publishing business model and the way that it will need to adapt and change in order to survive. Michael Nielson’s long post on how publishing is failing and how smart parts of publishing can reinvent itself. It’s definitely worth reading but it’s [...]

Daily Links Round Up – Plagiarism Edition

If you were reading around the blogosphere, you would have noticed the allegations of plagiarism against Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail.   Also in the plagiarism news is the suit filed against Elisabeth Hasselbeck for her cookbook.   TMZ obtained a letter that the attorney for Susan Hassett sent to Elisabeth’s [...]

REVIEW: Ebook Weekly: The Long Tail (or the end of the Hard to Find)

One thing I find very frustrating as a reader is when a reviewer raves a book from 20 years ago. I want to read those books, but to do so usually involves effort in hunting them down and then opening up the checkbook if its a particularly HTF OOP (hard to find, out of print) [...]