Quote: Steve Haber Of Sony

The Future of Reading: Learning From the Past to Thrive in the Future

[T]he purchasing process for eBooks must be simple, ownership needs to be permanent, file standards should be universal, and devices should support public libraries so that everyone has access to free content.

He’ll be in Boston. This is what he looks like:

Bring your Sony Reader and a Sharpie. Have him autograph it.

Writer Jason Pinter On What Matters

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The Internet is a global reproach to the Tina Browns of this world.

This is why people are busy reading the Net instead of print.

The Internet gives people what they are interested in.

It’s too bad Suits too often equate “what people are interested in” with pandering.

Jason Pinter:

Prior to becoming a full time writer, Jason worked as a book editor for five years at three major publishing houses.

His website.

Keeper Quotes

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance less” — Andrew Sutherland

“The people who matter aren’t conferencing. They’re working.” — someone I will keep anonymous

“Never before in human history has it been possible to create this much wealth, this fast, and starting with so little.” — Adam Penenberg

“How many so called ‘social media experts’ have read any network theory?” — James Governor

Mark The Words Of Dave Winer

Is Google/Microsoft/Twitter in the news business?

This is what we still have to do — create the connections between people with technical knowhow and people who can make the news flow to create a safe harbor for the millions who want to participate in news to do so, without being owned and controlled by the titans of tech.

Emphasis added by me.

That last bit is very, very important.

Writers: You Can’t Have ALL The Money

No one can.

I thought the Authors Guild were a pack of eejits. It turns out some of my fellow unaffiliated writers are too.

Who Else Is Twitter Sandboxing?

UPDATE: See end of this post.

I am the invisible man of Twitter.

It has been this way for months.

Curiously, it coincided around the time I publicly tweeted to @ev and @biz about the rotten service. Twitter was full of FAIL Whales daily for days and days and days.

I couldn’t have been the only person to complain.

It makes me wonder how many other people on Twitter have become invisible too.

After the break I will show you what invisibility means and why it matters to everybody.

Barnes & Noble eReader For Android Coming?

Either they’ve accidentally announced it’s coming or this is one hell of a mistake!

From the Nook Fact Sheet [PDF link], this:

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There is currently no B&N eReader for Android. This is what’s available at the B&N eReader download page:

No Android version! (No Windows Mobile, either — but who cares about that other than maybe Barnes & Noble?)

It’d be great to have a version that runs on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet and the leaked Dell Streak.

Dell Tops The Archos 5 Internet Tablet

Not all the specs are in, but it has one key thing I wish the Archos 5 Internet Tablet had: a camera. And it’s a five-megapixel camera too!

Here’s a video that originally appeared on SlashGear, which has more information:

And some screensnaps after the break.

Writer Charlie Huston: Bravo!

I came in late. I didn’t see all of it.

Still.

Over the course of several months I’ve watched as writer Charlie Huston unspooled a crime fiction novel on Twitter.

It ended today:

I’ve seen other writers attempt this.

What I’ve seen have been failures.

Charlie Huston succeeded.

He took the economy of Twitter and provided a gripping narrative with suspense, drama, surprise, and style.

Bravo!

Barnes & Noble Nook OOPS!

Houston, we have had a website correction!

When access to the Nook site leaked out earlier today, this is what it showed:

Post-official announcement, it now displays:

So what was that, Barnes & Noble? Holding something back or simple sloppiness?