Hey, any of you folks remember those Storyballs we write all the time? Well, someone figured out how to take the Fun Thing and turn it into the The Fun Thing Where You Get Paid. Collaborative Creative Writing Community – StoryMash. Go. Check it out. I’m going to.
Posts Tagged ‘Ebooks’
Publetariat Interview: New mediums, Twitter, and storytelling
Last week, I was interviewed by April over at Publetariat about the story I’m telling via Twitter. As one of the central touchstones for the indie publishing movement, she thought the whole idea of creating a story via Twitter — something that would really never transfer to paper in its original format — was interesting, [...]
Publishing is changing. Publishers? Well…
Piracy and changing distribution schema will not kill the publishing industry. Shortsighted infrastructure-protection on the part of publishing houses will. So speaks Susan Piver in an article in which she implores publishers not to make all the same mistakes as the music biz. What offed the music business—and what the publishing industry is facing—is a [...]
Environmental Impact of E-books
Read an E-Book Week – Environmental Impact of E-books. Lots of research with inconclusive results — still, interesting read, and a fine kick off to Read an E-book Week.
(Anticlimatic) attack of the POD people
Here’s a little story for you. A few years ago, I found out a friend of mine had written a book. A real-life book! I was going to meet this person face to face, so I bought their book off Amazon, squirreled it away in my bookshelf, and when we met, I asked them to [...]
I think I know what indie book publishing is going to look like
Over on the Writers Digest website, someone named Jane writes a series called There Are No Rules. Her most recent post is “My Big Rant on Self-Publishing”. It starts out like this: I can’t tell you how tired I am of hearing people bash self-publishing. The things I hear usually fall into two categories: Most [...]
Compiling notes from the Tools of Change conference
My Twitter page is drowning under a tweetstorm of posts from people at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. It’s really amazing how, with so many people posting snippets from each talk, you can actually get a three-dimensional (if patchwork) image of what each talk covered, and the messages. Let me tell you, it’s some [...]
Big Chain Bookstore Deathwatch (publetariat.com)
Publetariat points out the absence of the emperor’s clothes in this post: Do you remember precisely when you stopped going to chain music stores like Musicland and Tower Records, and why? For me, a music fan with eclectic tastes, most often looking for artists not represented on Billboard’s charts, the birth of online retailer CDNow [...]
