Today’s links of interest:
- Retailers tackle The Long Tail
Because we haven’t pointed to a Long Tail story in a while. - Help Us Hack the Publishing System!
Or at least Amazon. - A Slave Story Is Rediscovered, and a Dispute Begins
Possibly the first novel written by a black woman. Possibly not. But let us not focus on who did what first, and, instead, look at what the work tells us (like the taste for Gothic extended far beyond the shores of Britain…). - A granddad of gonzo journalism
In a way, it wouldn’t have been Hunter S. Thompson without Ralph Steadman. New memoir that someone might want to buy. - How to be funny
Speaking of effective endings…start with the punchline first.
