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L.A. Times interviews the Moonbot Studios, makers of 'The Numberlys':
Q: The iPad is so new. What is it like working in such uncharted territory?
Oldenburg: It harkens back to the early days of film. It’s still very Wild West and experimental right now and it is really exciting.
Enochs: The first movies were a locomotive and a guy running and that was it, and everyone was thrilled. We are still a little bit in that stage, I’m sure.
Moonbot Studios are the same people behind ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore‘. # (0)
Sunday, 8 January, 2012
Wednesday, 21 December, 2011
- Boris Kachka from New York Magazine on How E-books Have Become a New Literary Form:
The great hidden virtue of e-books—hidden beneath the chatter about their effect on the bottom line—is that they allow stories to be exactly as long as we want them to be. It turns out that many of them work best between 10,000 and 35,000 words long—the makings of a whole new nonfiction genre occupying the virgin territory between articles and hardcovers.
(Thx, Johnnypat) # (0)
- Seth Godin on How much should an ebook cost?:
This is the wrong question. The right question is: How much will an ebook cost? Because the answer isn’t up to one author or one publisher or even a price-fixing cartel. It’s up to the market, which is a far more complicated entity. There are no shoulds in the market, just reality.
He makes an interesting argument for dynamic pricing: that unknown authors should release their ebooks for free, and then scale the prices up. # (3)
Tuesday, 20 December, 2011
Friday, 16 December, 2011
- How Darcie Chan Became a Best-Selling Author:
Ms. Liss says that the offers from U.S. publishers so far don’t improve much on what Ms. Chan is making on her own. She’s made around $130,000 before taxes—substantially more than a standard advance for the average debut novelist—and she’s getting a steady stream of royalties every month. “I told Darcie, at this point you’re printing money. They’re not. Go with God, we’ll sell the second book,” Ms. Liss says.
Nothing new here, but it’s a nice article from the Wall Street Journal about our little corner of the publishing world. # (0)
- Cory Doctorow has a beautiful excerpt on why writing YA matters, really matters to the kids who read it:
Genre YA fiction has an army of promoters outside of the field: teachers, librarians, and specialist booksellers are keenly aware of the difference the right book can make to the right kid at the right time, and they spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to convince kids to try out a book. Kids are naturals for this, since they really use books as markers of their social identity, so that good books sweep through their social circles like chickenpox epidemics, infecting their language and outlook on life. That’s one of the most wonderful things about writing for younger audiences—it matters. We all read for entertainment, no matter how old we are, but kids also read to find out how the world works.
So, so true. # (4)
Monday, 17 October, 2011
- NYTimes reports on Amazon’s foray into publishing:
(Russell Grandinetti) pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.”
Amazon has been launching imprints for the last year or so, including romance imprint Montlake Romance, thriller imprint Thomas & Mercer, and most recently sci-fi imprint 47North. Nothing new here, this article has been a long time coming. # (4)
Wednesday, 12 October, 2011
