Authors Unbound: The Rise of the Maker Author
While the old guard complains and wishes things were like “the good old days,” many of today’s most inventive authors are bursting from the seams of their books and breaking […]
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Friday Reads: Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?
The ebook, as it’s envisioned now, is not much different from a print book. This is partly because of what authors write: most still write books for a print market, […]
Scott Turow and his Sinking Ship
What is the author’s role in the age of digital disruption? Will authors who treat books as start-ups be the agents of disruption, or will they be subjected to the […]
Friday Reads: Self-Publishing and the Future of Books
Whether you call it self-publishing, vanity publishing (a term no longer used, it seems), or — as Guy Kawasaki spins it – “artisanal” publishing, it’s clear that as digital publishing […]
Friday Reads: Amazon Acquires Goodreads: Thoughts From Experts
This week, I’d like to focus on yesterday’s big news: Amazon bought the social reading site Goodreads. Since I believe in social reading despite its issues, I am both excited and […]
Friday Reads: Google Reader’s Death and Annotated Prose Poems
Today, I’ve got two articles to discuss and some links from earlier in the week. I’m mixing up things I’ve found related to digital marginalia and an article about the […]
A Book Is a Start-up, says the New Yorker
I came across an interesting article this weekend at the New Yorker‘s book blog Page-Turner titled “A Book Is a Start-up.” There were many points brought up in the article, but […]
Deciding to Self-publish After Rejection
As authors get more direct access to publishing tools, the temptation to self-publish increases. This is now a viable and legitimate way to get your work into the hands of […]
Friday Reads: “How Do You Write a Great Work of Fiction?” by Jennifer Egan
This week, I read a lot of articles about the art and craft of writing. I’ve found that most articles about this topic cover similar issues: how to write, when […]
Friday Reads: “Stop Lurking. Start Participating” by Susan Murphy
I just finished my first MOOC, E-Learning and Digital Cultures. One of our goals was to talk about the human aspect of our online lives. As I worked on the […]
