The amazon vs Macmillan thing below really deserves its own entry.
- I don’t check kuro5hin all that often anymore, but every once in a while I do. And I find neat stuff like this story about Building Houses–One Bullet at a Time in New Orleans. No wonder the place is still screwed up.
- Hmm. Not a happy thing: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties. Also, from John Scalzi, A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx. In It’s All About Timing, Scalzi goes into it a little more, with an explanation of why Amazon would do this on a Friday. Unfortunately, the weekend is when some of us spend more time online, so I’ve been watching this quite a bit, and have had time to get fairly steamed with Amazon. Finally, in a note To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community from John Sargent, head honcho at MacMillan, he explains that this was Amazon’s decision. [boing boing and scalzi]
- A long article from the New Yorker on The rise of the Tea Party movement. Interesting!