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Continue reading →: Go Read This | if:book: hospice for publishers
An excellent, but somewhat unsettling post this one! Thinking about my friend’s parents makes we wonder why their couldn’t be a “hospice” option for publishers, many of whom — my low-end guess is at least 50% — won’t survive the transition from print to networked screens. If a publisher…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | French indies sign petition against Hachette’s iBookstore agreement | theBookseller.com
Interesting news item from The Bookseller today. It’s such a mix of valid and to me misguided thinking. On the one hand they ask the most pertinent quetion of the next few years: Do We Want To Live Without Bookstores? Yet on the other they seek to retain their protected…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: The Changing Face of Publishing
You should read the whole post, but I wanted to pull one quote out and think it over. On the one hand, JA is right here. There will be fewer books printed. That will result in fewer books sold through bookstores. However while that may well result in fewer bookstores…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | n+1: We All Die There Now
Good review this! I’ve not seens Kick Ass yet, I may not after reading this! One of the major differences between Kill Bill and Kick-Ass—besides the twenty-seven years that separate Uma Thurman from Chloë Moretz—is that Kill Bill is good and Kick-Ass is bad. Tarantino’s action sequences are as elegantly…
