Today’s links of interest:
- Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Boats, or, How I Got to the London Book Fair
Our friend Peter Ginna gets his inner Phileas Fogg on. - McSweeney’s Explains Its Salon.com Agreement
Less cash (no cash?), more exposure. - Payment Models
Joe Wikert reconsiders micropayments in the era of the iPad. - Quiet London Book Fair Opens As Those Who Made It Worry About Getting Home
Publishers Lunch offers up a State of the London Book Fair: In the biggest book fair indicator of all, there were no lines at the women’s rest rooms. Needless to say, bars are doing boffo business. (Registration required). - The Nervous Breakdown
Interview with Richard Nash. Money quote: Random House is exactly what its corporate name suggests it is. - The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books
This is a messy story on so many levels. A nice recap of the past couple of years, but a lot of squishiness in the facts department.
