Chuck Warnock of Outreach magazine, chuckwarnock.com linked this on February 1, 2010 at 10:45AM EST
Chuck said: Amazon has caved in to Macmillan's revised pricing for ebooks, according to an Amazon statement released this morning. Quote:
“This is really a war for who wins control of the digital book publishing industry." -Carl Howe, Yankee Group
Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on January 9, 2010 at 4:45AM EST
Jim said: American Dialect Society pick 'tweet' as the word of 2009, 'google' (verb) word of the decade. Quote:
"tweet" for 2009 and "Google" for the Aughts
Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on January 6, 2010 at 6:08PM EST
Jim said: NYT'S McGrath has good review of the treatment of the Sherlock Holmes character with comments on current movie. Quote:
Holmes is now unkillable - though purists will doubtless argue that Robert Downey Jr.'s rendition of him in the Ritchie film, which at times resembles a Victorian version of "Fight Club," is a fate worse than death.
Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on December 31, 2009 at 8:07AM EST
Jim said: JPROF.com celebrates 5th anniversary. Party on! Quote:
In the past five years the site has grown in size (more than 400), expanded in purpose and reached around the globe to people I never would have touched or heard from.
Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on December 28, 2009 at 6:13PM EST
Jim said: The Vook, a video/book hybrid, may be the Next Big Thing - maybe. Quote:
Predicting the eventual death of the traditional novel sounds practically heretical. But keep in mind that the genre has actually existed in English for only about 300 years, and that experimentation and evolution have always been a part of the way we tell stories.