Banned Books Week officially kicked off this past Saturday. What did you read this past weekend? Friday saw an editorial in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition that simply misses the point (or perhaps does so intentionally.) Let’s take a … Continue reading
(Update: B&N has responded, both on Smart Bitches and to Galleycat. Joe Gonnella, the VP of trade merchandising, responded on SBTB’s comments thread: Barnes & Noble does not have a policy to boycott books because authors don’t link to us. … Continue reading
Some photos from Sydney, Australia after yesterday’s dust storm. I know the air pollution levels were probably high enough to kill Greg, but I can’t help but think how cool it would have been to walk around and see that … Continue reading
I know, I know. This blog should be about something other than Amazon asshattery now and then, but SHEESH. Amazon forces LibraryThing to remove links to other booksellers on their primary pages. LibraryThing, bless their hearts, is responding the best … Continue reading
(via Gawker’s review of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, which I won’t be reading): [...]and you can buy the electric Amazon Game Boy version of the book for a mere ten dollars! /gigglesnort
My response to Twitter’s new Terms of Service agreement is more than 140 characters long, so, here ’tis, in blog-form: I don’t like it. It’s a rights grab. I’m not sure what their old TOS looked like, and for all … Continue reading
Okay, so here’s the deal. Banned Books Week is coming up fast: September 26th-October 3rd. I’d like to do something this year that requires audience participation. What’s the best way to do that? Why, offering swag, of course! So, here’s … Continue reading
