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Barnes & Noble’s retail head sells shares 27 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
From Reuters: Barnes & Noble Inc’s retail group head Mitchell Klipper sold about two-thirds of his shares in the beleaguered retailer in the past few days, according to a filing with the Securities a...
Important information as you or someone you know prepares to become a sensitive poet 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
From 22 Words: If you know a sensitive spirit — whether a published poet or perhaps just a disquieted daydreamer who sometimes puts pen to paper — you should probably send them Matt Groening’s tips o...
Apple: Feds aim to “give Amazon a significant competitive advantage” in ebooks case 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
From GigaOm: Apple responded to various aspects of the DOJ’s proposed injunction against it in the ebook pricing case. It doesn’t want to change the way it does business in the App Store, but agreed ...
Why I’m Thinking About Saying Goodbye to Kobo 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
From My Writing Life: When Kobo Writing Life came out, I was excited to try the new platform and get my best selling Christian Fiction novels in front of new readers. I am a firm believer in distribu...
JD Salinger: authors claim posthumous works are on the way 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
From The Guardian: The authors of a new JD Salinger biography claim they have cracked one of publishing’s greatest mysteries: what the author of The Catcher in the Rye was working on during the last ...
Instagram, Vine and Netflix hit by Amazon glitch 26 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
From the BBC: Users of Instagram, Netflix, Vine, Airbnb and several other services reported problems getting through to the services for several hours late on Sunday. All of them rely on servers tha...
I don’t distinguish 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
But I don’t distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I’ll take either. David Sedaris Click to Tweet/Email/Share This Post
Why the future of books is safe with our hungry young readers 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
From Independent.ie: Children are still reading. That’s a fact. Children and teenagers have not fallen into a technological black hole – they still want and need books. Irish and UK sales figures fo...
Writing Excuses: Survivorship Bias 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
From Writing Excuses: When people who have succeeded at a given endeavor speak about their success, we are inclined to listen because hey, we’d like to succeed there as well. It’s critical to recogni...
Don’t Ask What I’m Writing 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
From The New York Times: No stage of the writing process — not the editor’s first response to the manuscript, not the review gauntlet — is as fraught for writers as those first few months of uncertai...
