links for 2009-03-21

March 21, 2009 in Links

The Kindle Revolution | The Big Money
Forget all the myths about the book business: the parties, the poring over manuscripts, and passionate arguments. The book business is a distribution business, pure and simple. It's about getting the words and ideas of a writer into the hands of a reader.
In the old days, publishers had to [...]

links for 2009-03-20

March 20, 2009 in Links

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally, but I know where the writer who [...]

links for 2009-03-19

March 19, 2009 in Links

Richard Smith: If we're going to beef up copyright law, we may as well ban Wikipedia | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
So cultural agoraphobia is one cause of this draconian copyright law. Another is the obvious idea that the easier something is to copy the tighter the need to be the controls. Before the intervention [...]

links for 2009-03-18

March 18, 2009 in Links

Ramayan 3392 AD | linksfordownloaders
Ramayan 3392 A.D. (formerly called Ramayana Reborn) is a comic book series based upon the Indian epic called Ramayana. It is written by Shamik Dasgupta and the art is by Abhishek Singh, and it was created based on a story by Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur. It features a re-imagining of [...]

links for 2009-03-17

March 17, 2009 in Links

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, people who do no more than describe the world around them are seen as pragmatists, while those who imagine fabulous alternative futures are viewed as radicals. The last couple of decades haven’t been ordinary, however…When reality is labeled [...]

links for 2009-03-13

March 13, 2009 in Links

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
I loved coming to the US…because I loved the idea that freedom of speech was paramount. I still do. With all its faults, the US has Freedom of Speech…You can say what you like, write what you like, and know that the remedy to someone saying or [...]