Book Lovers: Literary Necrophilia in the 21st Century – A very interesting piece from Joanna Walsh on the continually evolving relationship between author and text. The necrophilia in the title relates in part to the conceptual “death of the author,” and the reader’s attempt to mark their relationship to the ... more >
Twitter at the Crossroads – According to David Auerbach’s article at Slate, Twitter is in big trouble. Not only is it failing to acquire enough users, but earnings are apparently bleak. In the meantime Twitter has acquired TellApart, which is described as “a leading marketing technology company providing retailers and ... more >
Web servers enrolled in Pratchett tribute – As various online tributes to Terry Pratchett continue, a thread on reddit gave rise to a particularly appropriate way to memorialize Pratchett’s name and work, through sharing a code that is not generally visible when you click on the site. The origins of ... more >
Author Earnings – The Report – Here’s a link to the much discussed “report” by Hugh Howey that he’s using to assert the supremacy of self-publishing. His data captures two days of sales and then extrapolates annual earnings based on one placement on the charts. Without question, Howey’s data is ... more >
The Cover Cafe announced that Karen Wheless had passed away due to a recurrence of her cancer. I’ve “known” Karen for many years. Maybe over a decade. She participated at the All About Romance message boards and on a private reader group that I belonged to (as did some of ... more >
Annoying song but fun music video using animated romance covers. Pretty interesting how they manipulated the photos to animate them. U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing – Apple is the only party left standing in the DOJ’s lawsuit over price fixing. Emails alluded to ... more >