Dear Author again graces us with examples of the paleolithic thinking of the old media. The upshot is, the NY Times thinks used bookstores are the reason publishing is in a crisis right now. Yeah, right. This is the true sign of a crisis, when the old guard suddenly tries Read more…
From Dear Author we have something that just amazes me in shear economic WTFry. We all know at the wonderful, and oh so successful, way that major content providers (MPAA, RIAA, Viacom etc.) have tried to impose 19th century “this is my widget” mentality to IP law in the digital Read more…
To be enshrined along with “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.” “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.” George Bush, announcing that American Capitalism has jumped the shark.
On Dear Author we hear of a woman who’s held a funeral for her failed writing career. When I read the post my thoughts went something like this: Sixteen rejections is a low threshold for career failure. Can you base a career on the viability of a single novel (probably Read more…
She made me do this. But here you go anyway. Of course you also want to see the high quality version.
My wife’s birthday came in November, and today this gift box was delivered: That’s a mighty impressive box. Wonder what’s inside? Ok, packed snugly with some paper packing materials, another box. Interesting. Want to take a wild guess what’s inside? Well there were a whole mess of Styrofoam peanuts and… Read more…
One of the fun things about being a libertarian is that you really have no problem coming up with really good examples of bad government intervention. It’s almost a given, and I think even the most statist of both my liberal and conservative friends would agree that Sturgeon’s Law applies Read more…
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying manuscripts. From Pubisher’s Weekly: Josef Blumenfeld, v-p of communications for HMH, confirmed that the publisher has “temporarily stopped acquiring manuscripts” across its trade and reference divisions. The directive was given verbally to a handful of executives and, according to Blumenfeld, is Read more…