First and foremost, Happy New Year everyone!
I hope you had a wonderful time and here’s to 2010 and all that lays before us.
It being a New Year, it is of course time to talk about the future and in particular e-books. Yes again, don’t give me that look. Specifically I’d like to talk about the perception of e-books and readers and mention some of the hurdles ahead. Part of this comes from two articles Regis linked me to and part of it is from good old personal experience.
Starting with the articles we have two big ones in the e-lit world, [...]
Twitter is a wonderful tool, not only as communication between friends but as a way to grab important and unimportant tidbits from the people you admire.
Terry Prattchet (@terryandrob):
Okay, that’s it. We’ve just reached the end of Unseen Academicals. THE END. Now all we’ve got to do is go back and do all the back-filling.
Unseen Academicals is the 37th (yes, you read that correctly) Discworld novel, and is scheduled to be released on October 8. The fact that I have read all the previous 36 might indicate just how talented Pratchett is.
Hugo Awards (@TheHugoAwards):
Hugo Award Voting Opens http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=533
The Hugo Awards is [...]