The Looming eBook Quandary
Thanks to the leverage of their iPad distribution agreements with Apple, the big book publishing houses won their recent price skirmish against Amazon.com, but will the victory be a Pyrrhic one?
Celebrated Jumping Frog Leaps Again (Electronically)
Though long in the public domain, there’s no complete electronic version of Mark Twain’s debut book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, and Amazon’s Kindle store and iPhone app proved disappointing. So I took matters into my own hands.
Disapproving Glares from the Founding Fathers?
The Founding Fathers would look at the things we’re not so proud of today — our nasty politics, greed, warmongering — and likely conclude this is pretty standard American behavior that has survived through today from their own era.
A Luddite’s Rant
People still want to see movies made by people who love making them. But their appetite simply isn’t going to be satisfied in the venue of Hollywood’s preference.
