The Daily Square – Some Velvet Morning Edition

Today’s links of interest:

• Liza Daly 2009 In Review – Moving From If to How
  Liza Daly offers a look at her desk, technology, and the future. It’s a future we like.
• Kindle Total Cost of Ownership: Calculating the DRM Tax
  Interesting analysis, but not sure overall approach makes sense. Given ephemeral nature of type of books being purchased, seems a subscription service would be better choice.
• The key to literary success? Be a man — or write like one.
  Much to chew on here: the overwhelming choice of men for best of lists, the fact that male authors are taught in greater numbers in schools, the idea that female topics are less worthy. Let’s change our thinking in 2010.
• Best of ’09: Analysing the Global Ranking of Publishers
  Really interesting look at the top 20 publishers in the world. It’s not what you think it is.
• The Book Maven’s Top 20 Books of the Decade
  Always good to find points of agreement in a best of list. Of course, that’s why we love The Book Maven so much!
• Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated
  As we’ve been saying for years.
• Use Clay to Shape the Future of Publishing
  Monique Trottier: What made sense was to bring together the book geeks and the tech geeks to talk directly about the problems.