Michelle Richmond's Blog

• Why I'm opting in to the Google Books Settlement

  August 22, 2009

  • There's a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he's not going after the miller's daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets full of gold. Judging from the panic issuing from home offices and cafes across the country, you'd think he was trying to steal our firstborn. I'm talking about Google Books, and a deal negotiated ...
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• Times Book Club Pick--No One You Know

  August 11, 2009

  • No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, the Oakland Tribune, and a number of other Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks.Book club discussions of No One ...
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• Big Brother in your backpack

  July 31, 2009

  • In a truly Orwellian twist, a Michigan teenager named Justin Gawronski is launching a class-action lawsuit against Amazon for deleting the novel 1984 from his Kindle. It seems Justin had been taking notes, as students are advised to do, but when the book disappeared, he argues, his notes became irrelevant. CBC News reports: Justin Gawronski took copious notes using the Kindle that were linked to ...
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