Publishing Newse-readers / Emily Dickinson / gift guide / love letters / movie soundtracks / poetry / Tablets2 Comments
EMILY DICKINSON’S SINGULAR SCRAP POETRY – A lovely meditation on Emily Dickinson’s habit of writing poems and pieces of poems on all sorts of paper items, including chocolate wrappers (genius). There is still a good deal of curiosity and speculation around Dickinson, and thinking about the relationship between the writing and ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / black comedy / Disney / Gamergate / meditation / Microsoft / online harassment / SXSW / Tablets4 Comments
Exclusive: After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighing an All-Day Forum on Online Harassment – So following the backlash against SXSW’s announcement to pull two panels on gaming, and perhaps even more importantly, the news that Buzzfeed and Vox Media would not participate in the event unless organizers reinstated the panels, it appears ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / Agatha Christie / auctions / DRM / e-readers / Ebooks / grammar / Kobo / Libraries / privacy / security / Tablets / writing7 Comments
Kobo: tablets ‘no longer a focus’ – So Kobo President Michael Tamblyn has confirmed that Kobo is not going to be developing any more tablets, but will focus on the Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura and the new H2O. Without enough “unique content,” according to analyst Douglas McCabe, Kobo is now ... more >
Publishing Newsdata / Goodreads / readers / Romance / Self-publishing / smartphones / subgenres / Tablets15 Comments
Sales of Big Smartphones Are Totally Killing Tablets – I posted a story last week on Samsung’s decreasing profits, and here is more evidence that tablet sales are in jeopardy, in large part because bigger smartphone screens are making it easier for consumers to get by with only one device. ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Barnes and Noble / children's literature / digital publishing / education / Hachette / independent bookstores / Libraries / literature / Nook / reading / Samsung / Tablets18 Comments
So This Is How The Nook Ends – In his inimitable style, Mike Cane sounds the death knell for Nook, noting that the announcement by Barnes and Noble and Samsung to build “co-branded tablets” says more about how B&N has abandoned Nook than it does about the prospect of one ... more >
Publishing Newscensorship / editing-problems / self-published / Tablets19 Comments
Famous Writers Who Self-Published: Busting a Self-Publishing Myth – Peter Winkler takes on the false claims by “book promotion guru John Kremer” who compiled an inaccurate list of famous authors who once self published. Why Kremer does this when there are legitimate famous and successful authors who did self publish, ... more >