Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Epubs
March 12, 2009 | Thursday | 52 Comments
I hate DRM. And since it’s Read an eBook Week, I figure it would serve well to discuss one of the facets of digital publishing that stops people from trying out ebooks, after, of course, the high cost of the ebook readers: DRM. DRM is Digital Rights Management, or, more appropriately, Driving Readers Mad. The security wrapped around ebooks that allegedly prevents me from sharing them really just prevents me from owning the actual book itself. Given the various types of formats and the varying degrees of security embedded within them, DRM means I’m being sold a format and not…
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March 09, 2009 | Monday | 50 Comments
em·bar·rass: v 1. To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert. 2. To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties. 3. To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede. Sixteen bodrillion people forwarded me this link, so thank you to all of them: IT World says ebooks are taking off because women can buy erotica and romance without embarrassment. Specifically: “porn is blazing a path to a new media format.” Lest anyone think I’m quoting out of context, let me grab the two paragraphs that caught my eye. Barnes & Noble abandoned ebooks once, so why are they coming…
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January 27, 2009 | Tuesday | 7 Comments
It’s podcast time. Jane and I discuss small presses and the powers thereof, and have a grand old time talking with Angela James from Sam Hain.
Also, Jane cracks me up like damn.
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December 05, 2008 | Friday | 13 Comments
The economy circles the toilet bowl at an alarming rate ofcircumference speed these days, and this week found layoffs aplenty among publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Thomas Hayden - causing Wednesday to become “Black Wednesday” in the publishing world. So it’s with some surprise and “hey, now!” that good news of a sort landed in my inbox: Sam Hain, cousin, as you know, to Sam Bucca and Sam Adams, has acquired romance e-pub Linden Bay. Per the press release from Sam Hain CEO Crissy Brashear: “From the beginning one of my goals was to create multiple…
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May 25, 2008 | Sunday | 33 Comments
Over at Dear Author, I’m reviewing the Kindle, which I own, and now owns .39% of my soul and counting. Here’s a sample of my review: My present option for ebook reading was my Blackberry screen, which was all of this big—> . My external reader options included hacking an iPhone should I buy one (oh, how I lust for thee, sweet iPhone) or an eBook reader. But like the VHS/Beta debate, eBook reader manufacturers can’t seem to nail a format any better than ebook publishers can nail good cover art that depicts people nailing one another, and I’m left…
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May 05, 2008 | Monday | 258 Comments
I’d been thinking about interracial romance over the weekend, while I was trying to draft a section for The Book (OMG The Whole Genre?!) {that's a working title, obviously} that examined minorities in RomanceLandia. What a verdant, green - or white, perhaps - pasture of peaceful writing that was. Not a landmine in sight for my clodding feet to trip on. No, no. *head desk* So when a friend of mine forwarded me a news article that Mildred Loving, the Black woman whose marriage to a white man overturned laws against interracial marriage died today at the age of 68,…
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April 21, 2008 | Monday | 104 Comments
A certain pub of the vowel variety was seen approaching one of their former authors, now a big double-diamond star in her own right for another publishing house. Despite proclamations that said author was persona non grata at their house since she departed, the pub rep present at RT was begging said author for a few books - e-rights only, no need to worry about that printy type business. Things must be rotten in Denmark for begging to supercede earlier vilification. Meanwhile, a number of authors from one ePub had a marvelous time at the party of another ePub, even…
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