I'm very, very excited about this. The ebook is formatted as a PDF, so it should be readable on any device. And it happens to be the perfect start-crocheting-for-the-holidays time of year. Just saying.
And also, for the time being at least, it's on sale.
(Read more about my thoughts on ebooks.)
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Publishing-industry thinker Sean Cranbury linked to this article in the Globe and Mail: The rise of the e-book lending library (and the death of e-book pirating).
The voice of the article, along with some of the people quoted within it, struck me as... naïve. To say the least.
But enough about that. As an author, here's...
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One of the sad publishing-industry events in Vancouver in 2010 was the shuttering of Duthie Books, one of the last great non-used indie bookstores in town.
I admit I had mixed feelings about its closing. I loved the idea of Duthie's, but I'd often felt kind of intimidated going in there. And the rhetoric coming...
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This was an odd year for me. I started out with a job, left that job in February to go back to freelancing, and am ending the year doing the majority of my work in crochet-related projects, which was never my goal but which makes me happy all the same, despite my desire to...
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Over on the Booknet Canada blog, Morgan Cowie wrote about subscription models in online news and how they don't work in part because they stifle the sharing and conversation that make the Web go 'round. She wonders if similar models would work for ebooks, which are very different from news articles*.
But I'm not really...
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