Given how 1930 was shaping up, Fred was thrilled when fulfilling some promises first made by his brother, Charlie, lead to the offer of a studio job. Too bad Fred didn’t ask if Carl Belasco was promised anything other than cat-sitting and help renovating. Dear Lucius Parhelion, I was inclined ... more >
Disrupting the book: Serialization, new formats, and AR – We continue to see stories evolve, including their format, and as Ja Ja Liao points out in this post, technologies continue to evolve. Tablets and dedicated e-readers were not the end of the road, nor are smartphones. And now we’re seeing more serialized ... more >
Kindle Unlimited Ruled Illegal in France – So the French government has determined that Kindle Unlimited violates French laws that require publishers to set book prices. While KU is not the only program affected by this ruling, it’s certainly the largest, and perhaps the most likely to survive the ruling, ... more >
What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >