Publishing 2010: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
This post is my attempt to distill together many different threads into a common tapestry. There is a lot of turbidity in the publishing, podcasting, music, film, television worlds right now. I have these feeling that every bit of this is all part of a larger whole and I’m going to take a stab …
Tags: akismet, amazon, ebooks, jakonrath, jchutchins, kindle, macmillan, publishing, st martins press, sterling editingMy Take on Amazon Vs Macmillan
I really honestly didn’t want to write one more consecutive Kindle related post but current events conspired against me with the current dispute between Amazon and Macmillan. I am seeing a lot of analysis from my compatriots in the science fiction tribe, such as Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, this thread at Making Light. I …
Tags: amazon, kindle, macmillan, this will end in tearsKindle Vs Nook: My Experience
Update: Since this post seems to have gotten a lot of traction and still gets hits and comments, I should point out that whether you choose the Kindle or the Nook, my new project Ebooks from TV is great for either!
I am blogging this from a Barnes and Noble cafe (specifically, the …
Tags: amazon, barnes and noble, kindle, nookKindle Software Update 2.3
I’ve had my Kindle 2 for about eight months at this point. It has easily crossed the point of being able to justify the purchase. I’ve read a dozen books in their entirety and parts of many more. I use it as my Twitter/web interface when I’m out of the house, and I even …
Tags: amazon, kindleBig Day in the eReader World
I missed it yesterday when Paul Biba at Teleread picked up on my ‘Kindle is not closed’ post from the weekend, which is gratifying and predictably brought out pushback in the form of comments including this one from Mitch Ratcliffe and a contrary response post from David Rothman. Some people agreed with me, some …
Tags: amazon, barnes and noble, davidrothman, kindle, nook, paulbiba, telereadThe Kindle is NOT a Closed System
I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don’t want one because it is a “closed system.” This is not the truth and I’ll get to that after a little prelude.
I’ve had mine …
Free Mojo Nixon MP3s at Amazon
I have no idea how long this deal will last but the last one like this I linked to was about 2 hours from when I posted it. I’d recommend jumping on this sooner rather than later. Right now, all Mojo Nixon albums are available for free from the Amazon.com MP3 store. …
Tags: amazon, mojonixonFree Amazon MP3s
A while back, I made my first ever purchase from the Amazon DRM Free MP3 store, Brian Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets. I liked the experience and thought it was pretty cool. Now via Ruby comes this link to a bunch of free MP3s. I just spent a bunch of time going through …
Tags: amazonEno and DRM Free MP3s
I can hit the quinella and make a new post that ties together two recents posts about music I love and DRM protected music. I realized that Brian Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets is probably the album I love most that I don’t own. Somewhere in a box I believe I have a …
Tags: amazon, brian eno, herecomethewarmjetsStatistically Indistinguishable from Perfect
Here’s a summary of why the Amazon S3 service went down last week. The title of this post comes from a statement at the end of their goals for their own service level. I really like that turn of a phrase. The takeaway lessons from this are 1) engineering services at this scale is …
Tags: amazon, cloud computing, s3