Todays links of interest:
- The New York Times Laments Forward Progress with the Kindle
Joe Wikert responds to the silliness that is the New York Times. - Peter Arnell Loses Again
In which one man has a very, very bad streak of luck. People, if you take the money to write a book, you have to fulfill your contractual obligations. - Books Stay Part Of the Grocery Store Mix
Or, if you sell books where people are, they will buy them. Read that on a fortune cookie. - The Importance of Book Curators, Pt II: What We Really Lose When We Lose a Community Book Seller
Kat Meyer pulls together the critical pieces of the loss of a local bookstore. - ‘Harry Potter’ among those missing from e-library
Hillel Italie of the Associated Press takes a good look at books that aren’t available in digital format. Interesting points about the rights issues while highlighting silliness from authors who care more about their own vision than the reader. - Think “read on demand”
Brian O’Leary doesn’t realize it, but he started a new meme today! Read on demand. - The past of the future of the book (part 1)
Liza Daly offers up a lovely quote about ebooks. Look at the dates. - Google Deadline Delayed Four Months as Steinbeck Motion Granted
And the beat goes on. - Amazon Stanza: This Changes Nothing
We are developing a bloggish crush on PersonaNonData: The gyrations publishers are going through to prepare and deliver a variety of formats is stupid and has to stop. - Apple and Verizon: New Mobile Devices Rumored
Ah, rumors. They make a Tuesday afternoon race by.
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KatG // Apr 29, 2009 at 2:02 pm
The New York Times is clearly staffed with idiots. We’re in the Radio Shack personal computer years. Wait a bit till we’re Apple/PC-ing it.