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The Chronicle Review features an article on reading a book in four different ways (hard copy, audiobook, dedicated ebook reader [Kindle], and iPhone reader [eReader]). You can also hear the writer discuss her experiment at ABC’s Book Show. Big call: she says iPhone is the Kindle-killer. I concur. There’s a reason Amazon bought Stanza and has made Kindle-purchased books available on the iPhone…
I really liked this: “Tomorrow’s readers will immerse themselves in their favorite books…based on deeper needs. It will be just the sort of seamless decision we make every day when we decide whether we will place a phone call, send an e-mail message or text message or photo or video, handwrite a note, or make a personal visit.” Nice.
Um, David Eddings died. A month ago. That bit of news just whipped right past me.
The biweekly Writing World newsletter features a good article about midlisting in its first July newsletter. It kind of matches what I’ve been saying about writing and commercial success lately, except the professional writers interviewed here are do move with market trends – but they have the contacts that let them know what those market trends are in advance. New writers without contacts are going to struggle to do that, but the rest of it – be prolific and flexible, have a very thick skin, and understand that most writers won’t be massive bestsellers but can still make a living – is all good advice. Read it in the archives.
So, who DOESN’T look at a screwdriver and thinks ooh, this could be little more sonic? Captain Jack Harkness, that’s who. Torchwood’s back on tonight in the UK.
