Todays links of interest:
- Test driving the Kindle for iPhone
Carolyn Kellogg of the LA Times test drives the new Kindle app for the iPhone, quickly discovering that you don’t have own an actual Kindle to use the app as the makers intended. Like her reading with a flashlight image. - Random UK To Axe 5% Of Staff
Blaming high paper costs and high author advances, the company looks at staff cuts. - Incredible Harry Potter Sales Figures For Warner Bros Publishing Partners
Harry Potter isn’t just a cash cow for the book business. - HarperCollins Puts Its Money on New ‘It Books’ Imprint
Pop culture, Twitter books, new imprint, new sub-imprint. Gotta love the modern world. - BN Buys Fictionwise; Will Start e-Bookstore
The Pendergrast brothers sell for $15.7 million (yay for them!) and Barnes and Noble joins the game. Finally. - Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search
Call it the Google Stimulus Package for newspapers: the search giant takes out print ads to reach authors as part of the book search settlement. - Amazon Kindle 2 makes authors’ e-Books more compelling
Agreed. - WebMediaBrands Consolidates, Trimming Staff By 60
Formerly Jupiter Media, also known as the parent company of Mediabistro. - Query Fail
Agents and publishers review their submissions and (anonymously, at least for the authors) highlight the specific reasons why queries fail. Authors can learn a lot from this Twitter stream. - Kindle: Not Much of an Impact
Beautiful sarcasm from PersonaNonData. Gorgeous. Hilarious. We never lie about this stuff. - Amazon’s Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal?
In which some people exhibit a misunderstanding of how this market works. - In Defense of the Kindle
A reasoned response to the silly Sven Birkerts piece on the death of cultural literacy and all that should the Kindle succeed. - The Kindle Revolution
Slate looks at the potential for the Kindle.
