Eoin Purcell’s Blog: I Think Publishers Have Lost The Battle & The War
Some incisive comments on the agency pricing model:
The big six hadn’t yet realised that readers had become their biggest stakeholders. They still answered to other management.
Read the rest here.
Vonnegut responds to a book burner
"I am very real" -- Kurt Vonnegut's eloquent response to a school board head who burned Slaughterhouse-Five.
(Found via LISNews.)
The Modernist Journal Project (from Harriet the Blog)
I love the internet!
From Harriet the Blog:
The Modernist Journal Project: The Little Review, Blast, Coterie, The Owl, The Crisis, and more magazines for you to download (seriously)
Link of the whatever: Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review is a bit jumbled visually, but a fascinating collection of public domain works and articles about the public domain. I could, and have, and doubtless will, waste hours here.
Random links: The Perils of Copy Protection, from Scientific American
The hardest thing for old businesses to learn about digital goods: 1 stolen item is no longer equal to 1 lost sale.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-perils-of-copy-protection
Random Link: The Power of Bad Ideas
From The Creative Penn: Creativity: How 20 Bad Ideas Can Kick-Start Your Imagination
