Daily Archives: October 14, 2010
Just Arrived, 10/14/10
Posted on October 14, 2010 13 Comments
All this talk of electronic books today makes me want to tell you about the physical books which have arrived at my house in the last week. And here we go: * The Wonderful Future That Never Was, Gregory Benford and the Editors of Popular Mechanics (Hearst Books): Or, hey, this is where your flying […]
Reading Electronically: A Review
Posted on October 14, 2010 105 Comments
A few months ago I was given a Nook by a friend, who thought it would be something I could use. I appreciated the gesture; I wasn’t going to go out of my way to buy a dedicated eBook reader, but if one was going to be given to me, I’m sure I could find […]
Shorts and Singles
Posted on October 14, 2010 16 Comments
I’ve been asked if I have any thoughts about the newly announced “Kindle Singles” thing from Amazon. The idea would be to publish shorter works via Amazon — 10k to 30k words is the range I hear batted about — and price them commensurately. The question then becomes whether there is a sufficient market for […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying