On Playgirl's First Hardon
Most disappointing clickthrough EVER.
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On On Shirky, On Jarvis, On Rosen And Gillmor!
Alan Rusbridger's the softest of touches for this crowd.
What can you do when a kindly old Aunt really wants to give it all away to a Bhagwan and, to be fair, he really has made her the happiest she's been in 20 years, far happier than her mean old husband ever did?
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On New E-Bookstore Has Best FAQ Ever
@Choire Sicha Yes, I shouldn't have generalised using this publisher as an example and I apologise for dragging them in. It's just I've recently seen the books of two people I know (ten quid paperbacks before the usual Amazon discounts) almost given away on the Kindle - 'get X for the price of a cup of coffee' &c - and can't escape the feeling that without all those people in the value chain sucking-up part of the book price there'll be fewer people invested in publishing and fewer people to care about books more than they care about a cup of coffee. So, while the author might earn a dollar or two more per book they'll have to earn it all on their own in a crowded and distracted attention economy.
So, an emotional reaction. In short: the record industry; I GOT THE FEAR!
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On New E-Bookstore Has Best FAQ Ever
@Choire Sicha I give you joy of being served and wish them well but can't get beyond the fact that the shift from book to e-publishing involves not an incremental race to the bottom but a sudden Wile.E.Coyote canyon fall. And then just when an author thinks it's over - their work has been reduced to its marginal cost - an anvil will hit them on the head. *walks away like a concertina*
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On New E-Bookstore Has Best FAQ Ever
On reflection, this looks to be specifically targeted at that niche of readers that want to blindly spend $160 in advance on 12 long text files. They're just not being served right now!
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On New E-Bookstore Has Best FAQ Ever
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On New E-Bookstore Has Best FAQ Ever
8. ...It would ruin the mystique.
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On The 'Rolling Stone' Michele Bachmann Profile Aftermath (and Where Matt Taibbi is Right)
@Abe Sauer Thanks for addressing that but *even without the direct request not to publish* I would think a similar letter or email of mine to be a private correspondence and because I otherwise loved your piece you can see how running the email might seem a kind of synecdoche to me for the squandering of sympathy you rightly clobber Taibbi for.
I know I sound like one of those 'more in sorrow than anger' cunts, concern trolls or whatever, but your piece is, among other things, about good manners. It's great and I think it doesn't need that email.
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On The 'Rolling Stone' Michele Bachmann Profile Aftermath (and Where Matt Taibbi is Right)
And for this one: "Publishing private correspondence will not make readers like you..."
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On Epic Poem Pick For The Super Bowl
'And not whaling but spouting'.
I love these and have no idea - other people's sports - but also always cheer for the whale.