Horse Race: eBooks v Real Books

We have a new review today, from Life Begins at 30ty. Check it out here. [link] To less interesting matters: I think in the end, the eBook will win, given that the technology of the readers will improve quickly. Talking to people about their preferences, even old-fashioned book people like me love – I...

Blogger? BCN Wants You!

There’s a spring in my step thesedays as the BCN site starts to take shape. We’ve made a few mistakes and had a few failed ideas, none of which were fatal. Actually, I was about to kill myself there at one point when the machine (points to computer) didn’t understand my HTML code. I’m...

Android Rising

The price of books fall, the number of platforms rise. That’s the news this week in the volcanic eruption of electronic publishing. Kobo provides eReader applications [link] and an eBook library, which will be selling points for its new Android app. Android appears to be the sleeper in the smart-phone...

We Heart Bloggers

Book reviews are a big branch on the publishing tree. Publishing houses want to sell as many books as possible, but they’re stuck with the problem that most people don’t want to waste money on a book they don’t like – won’t like, really, because it’s in the future, that...

How to review a book – maybe.

In our opinion, there are as many ways to review a book as there are readers. The wonder of any book is that it can mean something different – touch a different part of the mind – for everyone who reads it. Isn’t this the beauty of language stored permanently on paper or in bytes?...

Books Thrive; Bookstores Dive.

If you love books like we do, you probably love bookstores too. It’s been obvious for a while that independent booksellers and chains both are in trouble. This report of Borders, the big US chain, losing $1.08 per share in the first quarter of 2010 is another clue that the store-front retail...