Author of the Making Book blog

 Interview starts at 21:05

What I’ve decided is going on in publishing is that genre fiction, however widely you want to define that, sort of entertainment books, are basically going to go down the eBook/indie author road. Of course the big publishers won’t want to give it up, and it’s not going to happen overnight, but it seems to me that structurally the potential is there, and all the incentives, perhaps, are against the publishers.

News  

“At Apple Hearing, Amazon Called a ‘Monopolist’†by Andrew Albanese at Publishers Weekly – December 15, 2014

Henry Blodget’s Interview with Jeff Bezos at Business Insider – December 16, 2014

Prime Air video – December 1, 2013

“The Everything Book: Reading in the Age of Amazon†by Casey Newton at The Verge – December 17, 2014

“Big Amazon Fire Phone update adds call blocking, custom ringtones, lots more†by Killian Bell at Cult of Android – December 18, 2014

Tech Tips

Kindle for iOS 4.6

Kindle Unlimited

Interview with Richard Hollick

Making Book: Richard Hollick’s blog about books and book manufacturing

Thomas Malthus and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Macfarlane

“Malthus Among the doomsters†by Jonathan Benthal at The Times Literary Supplement – June 11, 2014

“Is this a book?†at Making Book – December 10, 2014

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

“Augmented reality is coming closer†at Making Book – November 12, 2014

Content

Goodreads Choice Awards 2014

The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

Next Week’s Guest

Jeffery  Archer  Deaver, author of The Starling Project, an Audible Drama

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

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