Today’s links of interest:
- Extinguish the Rumors: No New Amazon Kindle This Year
Alrighty then. - Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics
Fun Friday reading. - ‘Rocky Mountain News’ To Run Original Fiction
Pretty cool, huh? - Houghton Develops iPhone Apps for Dictionaries
Finally Kirk has a reason to buy an iPhone. - Dutton Signs Major Multimedia Trilogy
This is what we’re talking about ! - With Weak First Half, RH has ?Much Catching Up to Do?
As does the rest of the economy (revised figures? wow, you have to wonder why the initial numbers were so far off, no?). - Craziness required
Jon Scieszka, the national ambassador for young people’s literature, talks about reading and kids. And makes some good sense in the process. - Facing Cuts, Editors ‘Relax the Rules’ to Make Swift Changes
This is the modern world. - Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined?
Tim O’Reilly on the social networks for books, offering a huge shout-out to GoodReads. - Edinburgh Book Club Wins Penguin/Orange Broadband Readers’ Group Prize 2008
Cool. Now for our bookclub to put itself in the running. - Egmont UK Launches New Website
Press release written by newly minted graduate of School of New Media Jargon. We’ll summarize: Egmont has a new website that they desperately hope will attract young people while making their parents happy.
