The Daily Square – Transition Edition
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Sittin’ Here, Watching The Market Go By
Associated Press headline: “Apple sells 1 million iPhones in first 3 days”. Add to that the six million phones already in the hands of customers (all of whom, I should note, chose to update their software…right when I was updating mine). Doing some quick, nearly caffeine-free math, that’s 7 million web-enabled, application-ready phones in the wild. Now is the time for bold, decisive, maybe even counterintuitive action. And counting. In March of this year, Apple released the Software Developer’s Kit (aka SDK) with hopes that people would create cool tools for the iPhone. This wasn’t a clever ploy to gin
On Same As It Ever Was
To get a sense of how market trends are affecting publishing, it’s important to understand how those trends break from, but also mirror, those of the past. In the 1700s, when booksellers came to replace the aristocracy as the primary patrons of the literary arts in England, writers such as Henry Fielding and the Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith decried the phenomenon as a “fatal revolution.” Fielding wrote a dramatic satire on the subject called The Author’s Farce, and Goldsmith railed ceaselessly against book merchants even as he profited by them. To wit: “You cannot but be sensible, gentlemen, that a
Social Media Thunder: The Gary Vaynerchuk Interview
So, okay, it’s street date for your book and you’re 35,000 miles above ground and out of touch with your audience. What to do? Send a quick “hey, it’s available on Amazon” post to Twitter and turn off your cell phone for the duration of the flight. That’s what Gary Vaynerchuk did. There’s a reason that the entire BS team loves Gary V. He lives what we preach: books, social media, and wine. Gary, who has just published his first (and highly recommended!) book 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World, married his passion for
Pretty Girls Can’t Write Serious Non-Fiction
BS is moving into its shiny new headquarters today (as long as the Internet gods shine upon us!), so all thoughts are focused on frantic last-minute packing. Only the cat has completed her move-related tasks, though, in all honesty, she didn’t bring as many clothes. Frantic minds need distractions, and we have a fun one today. It comes as news that a “genteel world of historical biography” exists, much less that it’s being destroyed by “glamorous young female writers trying to make a quick killing in the bestseller lists”. Who knew?