From the monthly archives:

September 2008

NYWF… not just for young writers

September 10, 2008

I’m truly bummed not to be able to go to National Young Writers Festival (NYWF) this year. Instead, I’ll be heading west with QWC’s Programming Director Julie Beveridge, with Neil Diamond on the iPod apparently, visiting the fine citizens of Roma, Cunnamulla, Goondiwindi and Toowoomba to present QWC events. That road trip is going to be [...]

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Kevin Federline’s Guide to Sudoku: A cautionary tale

September 10, 2008

I laughed myself stupid over this tale of woe from John Warner of TOW Books. Nobody ever made failure sound so bloody funny. How badly are we struggling? Well, we’ve released four books. Their Amazon rankings at the time of this typing are: 170,374 388,165 706,198 1,033,377 The most distressing part is that last number [...]

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A unified field theory of publishing in the networked era

September 9, 2008

Bob Stein has published a brilliant piece over at if:book about the paradigm of the book in a networked world, and the role authors/ readers/ editors/ publishers can play in generating and curating ‘book’ content. I place those quotation marks deliberately because Stein interrogates the notion of the book as artefact, whether print or multimedia, and [...]

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Alphabet Soup 08-Sep-2008

September 8, 2008

Ebook readers: it’s a war story – Times Online Mark Harris finds that DRM, price and limited range of titles all undermine the eReader hype in the UK, but mostly DRM. Small Book Publishers Offered New Technology – The NY Times Getting together with your friends to buy as a group can make some things cheaper,  [...]

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Micropayments have macro costs for authors

September 8, 2008

Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, has written an elegant analysis of micropayments and the intangible costs they could impose on writers hoping to skip all the intermediaries and sell direct to readers. When you take money directly from someone, they become your customer, a relationship that’s fundamentally different from the “writer-reader” relationship that you get [...]

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