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Continue reading →: Some App Love: Osprey’s Military History Quiz
I downloaded the free version of Osprey’s The Military History Quiz App last week and I just wanted to give it a quick word of praise*. Simply put, it’s excellent. It combines some excellent design with great questions and a very clever in-App purchase set of options. First the design…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Konrath Self-Pubbed Sales
There’s only one JA Konrath, that’s for sure, but he’s still mostly unknown and he’s still in the minority of authors who have embraced change I reckon he’ll be copied in 2011 for all the reasons he points to here. Good for him! In the past six weeks, my twenty…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Brave New World: Have We been Googled?
Great piece on what Google Editions IS, and what its implications might very well be. I have to say that despite its potential (which I’ve blogged about before) I am becoming increasingly skeptical about Google’s ability to pull this one out of the bag. I think Amazon has nicely out…
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Continue reading →: Unconvincing, Worth Reading Though | Boston Review — Onnesha Roychoudhuri: Books After Amazon
This reads like an extended complaint letter from publishers to Amazon. I’m unconvinced. There’s nothing here that’s new or original, nothing that suggests anything other than an old order faced with a new one, and even that motif is tired. I get no sense of what kind of ‘King’ Amazon…
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Continue reading →: Faber teams up with Touch Press for galaxy iPad guide | theBookseller.com
Not much to see here you might think on the surface. A company announcing a new product and a partnership at an industry event. But hold on! It’s Faber (yeah, that Faber) not DK making the announcement. Who would ever have expected a solar system App from them? What’s more,…
