Author name: Kassia Krozser

2008: The eBook Goes Mainstream

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Though I hesitate to make predictions, I’ve always been a bandwagon sort of girl, so here is mine for 2008 (what? too late? never.): 2008 will be the year that ebooks go mainstream. In the ten years I’ve been writing about epublishing and ebooks, the dual stories of the ubiquity of ebooks and the death of the novel have made headlines, the latter surely more than the former. People outside the publishing industry are talking about ebooks. In 1996, Hardshell Word Factory was established as an epublisher. In 1998, I wrote a profile of Mary Z. Wolf, the former author […]

Non-Traditional Publishing

Search & Sensibility

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Since Santa didn’t bring me a Kindle (probably fair on his part since I didn’t bake him any cookies), I have no choice but to worry about the future of the world. Or rather publishing. Or rather aspects of publishing. To sorta paraphrase Captain Jack Harkness, the 21st century is when everything changes, we have to be ready for it right now. Ask your mother to try your search engine. To my mind, the most important aspect of our future (media) culture is discoveribility. If you can’t be found, you won’t be found. This means, plain and simple, that —

The Future of Publishing

Most Wonderful Post of the Year – 2007 (Part Two)

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Normally, I do only one “Most Wonderful Post of the Year”, because, well, if there are two, which post is truly the most wonderful? But since it’s the giving season — and I do love giving — I’ve decided to break precedent (because you’ve got to live every day to the fullest) and offer up a second most wonderful post. Over the past several years, I have been wishy-washy about the “One Laptop Per Child” project. When it was first announced by Nicholas Negroponte, a bountiful vision of gifting the world’s needy children with fully functioning laptops, I, like so

Square Pegs

On Cliques

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Well, I advise you to hold your horses just a minute. Much as I have enjoyed and learned from the books blog and its comments – in all their glorious technicolour variety – we need cliques in literature. Art would be poorer without them. Sure, cliques have a habit of disappearing up their own derrières. GK Chesterton rightly said that the clique “is wrong because it actually discourages the great man from talking plainly. The priests and priestesses of the temple take a pride in the oracle remaining oracular.” If a group believes that only its initiated are capable of

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The Most Wonderful Post Of The Year – 2007

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Though I have been assured that I was born talking (first words, if legend holds true, were “I’m off to buy new shoes”), I believe my next major action was reading. I cannot recall a time when I was not surrounded by printed words. Most of my siblings survived childhood due to the fact that I preferred reading ingredients on cereal boxes over arguments. Readers — natural, bone-deep readers — cannot fathom a world where there are non-readers. We find ourselves somewhat suspicious of people who don’t covet books. To have the ability to read without using it seems downright

Square Pegs
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