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Continue reading →: Go Read This |The Best Things in Books Aren’t Free | Bait ‘n’ Beer
Don’s not wrong here, which is why I expect the majors will dominate those spaces where enhanced ebooks see success and lose out in the space where smaller players and self publishers can actually play the game. And that means one of two things: (1) Either you need a sure-fire…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Speculative Horizons: Fantasy trappings – is less more?
If you are into sci-fi & fantasy, this is a great discussion I can’t deny that many of my favourite fantasy series have moderate to minor fantastical elements: Martin’s own A Song of Ice and Fire, David Gemmell’s Drenai novels, John Marco’s Tyrants and Kings trilogy, J. V. Jones’s Sword…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Hachette UK to set e-book prices from Monday | theBookseller.com
Hello Agency pricing, bye bye cheap ebooks? In an email seen by The Bookseller, Gardners, wrote to retailers telling them of this change from Hachette, which it said would be effective from Monday, 20th September. Gardners provides e-books for retailers including Tesco, The Book Depository and independent bookshops. In an…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Gamebooks, branching narratives and adventure
Well worth reading and thinking over and over and over! And it is all these things that make gamebooks great, and unique. While there have been plenty of things that are similar, very few have proved quite as uniquely engrossing or successful at marrying the pretending to the rules as…
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Continue reading →: The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry 1778-1914
I read a great book review for The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry 1778-1914: ‘the Secret Spring’ by Anthony Cooke over at Reviews In History: While it is undoubtedly the case that the Scottish cotton industry had shrunk dramatically by 1914, there was, in fact, quite a…
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