Well, Motoko Rich is convinced this is a harbinger. Christ, I hope not. Let me explain. The Atlantic monthly magazine has made moves to ‘partner’ (ugh) with Amazon to offer short stories for the Kindle. A price per story at $3.99 sounds a bit harsh until you realise that one story at least is 15,000 [...]

Kat Hannaford’s post yesterday at Gizmodo got me thinking, which is probably the point, but I am always wary of emotive arguments for or against particular technologies. The word ‘hate’ in the title gives the game away.
Ever since Annie Proulx’s ‘twitchy little screen’ put down, writers high and low have queued up to tell anyone [...]

Since Somewhere back in October, the Queensland Writers Centre has been quietly winding its way through the blogs and backwaters of Queensland’s writers. Today the bus has parked outside and a ragtag bunch of blog tourists are welcomed in. Make yourselves at home. The coffee machine is on, but I can only do two cups [...]

Apple has lobbed over their wall an interesting development in the ongoing will-they-won’t-they tablet/e-book manoeuvres. They have made their ‘TuneKit’ tools (that create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras) available to download.
Cool huh?
Oh, alright, I’ll explain what it means.
One of the recent developments in selling digital music has been bundling the song files with other stuff: [...]