Amazon Ups the Ante on Streaming Video, Challenging Netflix – Amazon is undertaking two new monthly programs – an $8.99 video streaming service (a dollar less than Netflix) and $10.99 Prime (for which a yearly subscription saves you about three months at this rate). As someone who pays for, well, more ... more >
BSFA Awards – An excited shout of congratulations to Aliette de Bodard for winning two out of four British Science Fiction Association Award categories – Best Novel and Best Short Story – for The House of Shattered Wings and “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight.” The full list of nominees can be found ... more >
DC ANNOUNCES FULL “REBIRTH” LINE, TWICE-MONTHLY BOOKS, LOWERED PRICE POINT – Information on DC’s “creative team” for their new line-up will be announced (and live-streamed) at the upcoming WonderCon, but in the meantime, DC Comics has announced that it will keep the price point for its DC Universe comic books at ... more >
Chris Harrison Was Inspired by “the Godfather” of Romance Novels For His Book – So for all of you Bachelor/Bachelorette fans out there, host Chris Harrison has written what he refers to as a Romance novel, set to release the same day as the new season of The Bachelorette (I’m ... more >
Other People’s Playlists: Spotify’s secret social network – Although I have the Spotify app on my phone, I never use it. But after reading this piece on the way Spotify “relates” songs and artists based on how people listen to them, I’m curious to get to know the service better. ... 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 >