Is the publishing industry crashing? According to Mike Stackpole’s latest Huffington Post blog, it is–and he even gives a time-line: 2012, he figures, and June, to be exact.  Why then?  Because that’s when Apple makes iPhone OS 4.0 available which, in turn, makes iBooks software available for all iPhones and iPod Touches. Later in the [...]

Or not . . . Good article in the New York Times about this.  I’ve written about this before, but I continue to think/worry about this.  The kind of sustained attention/concentration you need to read a book–to really lose yourself–is so different from the kind of jazzed-up, juiced-up  flitting around that’s encouraged in most digital [...]

So, they’re at it again.  Nice article this morning in the New York Times on the battle between Amazon and Apple over e-book prices.  It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I favor competition and freedom of choice, and for you to have choice, there has to be more than one player.  Plus–honestly–people [...]

Once more into the breach: struggling with a short story while pondering this article from the NYT, I have to admit that while I can see the argument–I really can and Mike Stackpole had a great breakdown on the costs of e-publishing on his blog–there is something profoundly unsettling about the conclusion.  A new range [...]

I’ve already commented about this Huffington Post article on my Facebook page, but I’ll reiterate here: Uh . . . YEAH. Helllooooo, editors are the people who find you the books you’re hot to read. As a writer, I can tell you that editors have vision; they are constantly thinking of their readership and their [...]