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• The new medium for formless content will not replace all printed books

  March 6, 2010

  • Thanks to Elaine Cunningham, a fellow fantasy writer, I found Craig Mod's fascinating essay on why the printed book will become better with the advent of ebooks.Mod argues, and I agree, that the ebook will replace the disposable book. The paperback that we buy once to read on the trip or at the beach and then send off to purgatory at the Goodwill, library sale, or even recyclling bin. Tattered, ...
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• Adding a bookcase to my bag in 2010: adventures with a Pocket Reader

  January 23, 2010

  • My line about ebook readers has been "When the cost drops to $100 and I can check out books from the library for it, I'm sold."So, wandering through a local electronics store after Christmas, I saw the floor model Pocket Reader on sale for $119. Sold! I justified the extra $20 bucks and the costly leather cover as a late Christmas present from me to me.  All right, I've been dying to ...
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• 2010: shaping up to be the year of short fiction

  January 1, 2010

  • After finishing the final edits on City of the Dead way back at the beginning of 2009, the rest of the year seemed devoted to short fiction. With the vagaries of publishing, the story written last was published first and the rest are coming with 2010, which is shaping up to the year of short stories for me.The final story in 2009 written, but the first published, was "A Very Panda ...
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