Yup, it’s flash fiction time again! As always, this is based around Laurence Simon’s weekly challenge for the 100 word-stories podcast. It’s a great exercise for writers – […]
ebooks / essay / politics
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Cult of Personality
I’m seeing this trend too often lately: “Listen to me — and just to me. Everyone else is foolish. Those who listen to anyone else is foolish.” In […]
digital publishing / ebooks
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Making eBook Conversion (and Store Independence) Part of Reader’s Habits
I left us with this challenge yesterday: How do we make eBook formats transparent to end users? How do we make store-independence part of the habit loop of […]
digital publishing / ebooks / economics
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Steps Toward Making eBook format conversion trivial for average users
Yesterday, I talked a lot about where I think Mike Stackpole was wrong – but I also want to talk about where that leads to him being completely […]
amazon / ebooks / economics
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Where DRM (or a lack of it) is relevant – even with Microsoft entering the eReader game
There’s two points I want to respond to with Mike Stackpole’s article “Is DRM really Significant?”. It’s important I keep these two points completely separate – because he’s […]