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“Fungible” ebooks
Lots of great material to argue and shout and scream at on the Web over the past week, but the one I want to look at? Konrath versus Lipskar, and the horror of “fungibility.” JA Konrath’s post responds to Writers House president Simon Lipskar’s “all books are fungible” theory (written in support of big publishers and […]
More Moore?
April 25, 2012 by Paul McLaughlan
Jumping on board to discuss the Alan Moore / Before Watchmen brouhaha. This, because I both adore many of Moore’s works (Watchmen itself, the story bits in Promethea, and Swamp Thing in particular), but from the evidence of his own words (interviews, and not text), he comes across as a very bitter, unlikable person, concerned with his own righteousness. […]
Wednesday Poetry: Sanguine
April 4, 2012 by Paul McLaughlan
Now I know the taste of your lips: it is an ardor. Sanguine as, what’s left after the thing itself is gone. Which proves I’ve lived. And that’s there amongst all my treasured phrases. This is why I write. For the ambiguity. And can I describe it? 27 Feb 2005–4 April 2012
Neuroscience of an eBook
March 28, 2012 by Paul McLaughlan
There have been some articles lately about the neuroscience of ereading (though mainly based on cobbling together previous work on reading in general, and from anecdotal evidence regarding ereading practice), mainly summated by Chris Meadows, writing at Teleread: Does e-reading affect our memory of what we read? Do we remember less when we read e-books? […]
Dawn of the Metatext…
March 16, 2012 by Paul McLaughlan
There have been a few articles of late regarding publishers and how they act with libraries (see: Penguin removing their ebooks from library catalogues, in response to Amazon’s Kindle Lending Service, ouch!) And of most interest is Techdirt’s article, Libraries Are The Best Counter To Piracy… So Of Course Publishers Are Trying To Limit Them. In it, […]
Suspicious…
December 12, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
You may note that I’m being suspiciously absent from here of late… “Suspiciously”? … “Noticed”? Well, maybe neither of these two things! However, I have. Just to say, “no I’m not dead, and neither is my part in Platform Thing.” But! My ‘downtime’ is taking over for a while: marking essays, tutoring and writing for my other […]
The Song of Dalsarion: Fifteen
November 24, 2011 by Paul McLaughlan
19 The next morning was warmer than I expected. ‘Did you learn the lessons of my songs?’ Asked Mithril. Smiling, I remembered what he had sung. ‘Sometimes I think there weren’t any… But at other times I stop, and consider, perhaps there was wisdom in the wit of it? The terrible responsibly of it all? […]
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May 17, 2012 by Paul McLaughlan
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