Publishing needs its darlings to keep afloat – its Dan Browns and Tattooed Girls and Meyerses – and what is true for genre is true for literary fiction as well. And so 2010 brought us Franzen’s “Freedom,” the great white hope of American Letters. I’m always puzzled (no, not puzzled … annoyed) by literary types [...]
My mother just asked what i thought about WikiLeaks … and finally I had an answer (my gut reaction from the beginning has been to support WikiLeaks, but i haven’t articulated that support till now): 1. There is nothing you can do about it. The internet is designed to support anonymous dumping of masses of [...]
Our daughter was born November 2, 2010, at 8:50am. No official name yet. Mum is recovering well, and baby is lovely, don’t you think?
Have a listen to a sample of an Iambik Audiobook: All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman Published by Coach House Books, iambik audiobook narrated by Gord Mackenzie. Play Chapter 1 (Right Click/Save As to download).
We launched Iambik Audiobooks today, a new audiobook company loosely based on another project I started moons ago, LibriVox. Iambik’s a bit different though: we’re partnering with publishers to make audio versions of in-copyright books, we’re much more picky about sound quality, and … we want your cold hard cash! You can visit the site [...]
My O’Reilly article, about books and the internet, got picked up by Forbes: The Vanishing Line Between Books And Internet.
I’ve been meaning to write this post about truly connected books for ages. It’s up on O’Reilly Radar: Ebooks to date have mostly been approached as digital versions of a print books that readers can read on a variety of digital devices, with some thought to enhancing ebooks with a few bells and whistles, like [...]
Tracey Lauriault (my co-founder of datalibre.ca, and the tireless editor of) and I have a chapter in a just-released book out of the University of Sydney Press: Access to Public Sector Information : Law, Technology and Policy, edited by Brian Fitzgerald. Ours is chapter 14 in Volume 1: “Data Access in Canada: civicaccess.ca.” Access to [...]
This weeks’ Good Links wherein Mitch (w / t) Alistair (w / t) and I choose links for each other. A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education – Edutopia. “This piece looks at how school textbooks are purchased in the US, and how a strange combination of Gerrymandering, industry consolidation, and book budgets are [...]