In the Beaverton Valley Times (yes, I dig deep for my loyal readers!) there is an article about an author who is publishing her book, one chapter at a time, exclusively online.
“Echo is a new literary role model for young readers created by 29-year-old Beaverton author Amy Alexander, but you can’t find her stories in bookstores…just yet. [...]
The International Herald Tribune (yeah, I’m that well read) has a pretty interesting piece on the growing trend of product placement in books, especially in the teen lit world:
“Cover Girl, which is owned by the consumer products giant Procter & Gamble, has neither paid the publisher nor the book’s authors, Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman, [...]
Yeah, I opened with a bad pun. Made me feel good.
The GuardianUK has a look at another way to get people to read books in the digital age:
“Dailylit.com puts paid to the excuse about not finding time for good books; now the books come to you, as daily morsels in your inbox. Over 800 books [...]
BoingBoing has a quick post about the on-going free book discussion:
“Bottom line: low-risk/low-cost books are how readers discover new authors, and the biggest threat writers face is the overall unpopularity of reading books, not people reading for free.”
They point to a post from Neil Gaiman, (who’s book, American Gods, is “available” for free online) who [...]
A couple of posts about the world of books caught my eye. First, over on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow has a scathing review of Harper-Collins “free” version of Neil Gaiman’s book “American Gods”:
“I think that Harper Collins got this one wrong. They’ve put the text of American Gods up in a wrapper that loads pictures of [...]
