Daily Archives: July 30, 2014
Amazon’s Latest Volley
Posted on July 30, 2014 331 Comments
Another day, another volley in the Amazon-Hachette battle, this time from Amazon, in which it explains what it wants (all ebooks to be $9.99 or less, for starters) and lays out some math that it alleges shows that everyone wins when Amazon gets its way. Some thoughts: 1. I think Amazon’s math checks out quite […]
The Big Idea: Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson
Posted on July 30, 2014 14 Comments
When you introduce magic into a real-world setting, you don’t only have to deal with the problems that magic introduces — you have to deal with the problems that already existed in that real world setting. When Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson wanted to introduce magic to an American milieu in One Night in Sixes, she took […]
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