My Impressions of the iPad
If you are considering getting an iPad, don’t listen to people who have only used it once or twice… After four weeks, I absolutely, positively cannot live without this device.
Mourning the Loss of Identity
I didn’t want to work in a cubicle building stuffy, boring computer software all day long…I wanted-needed- to build, create, let my mind free and imagine worlds and people and events that stimulated my imagination.
Amazon Heads Apple Off at the Pass With Kindle 70% Royalty Deal
This whole business reminds me of the HD-DVD/BluRay format wars. Do I get a Kindle and read only Kindle books? Do I get a Nook and read only Nook books? Do I get an Apple Tablet and read only iTunes eBooks? At some point the house of cards will fall and there will be one winner. Only time will tell if any of this is good for the consumer and how it will change the publishing industry as we know it. As I’ve said before, the bottom line is that if authors and publishers do not embrace change, adapt, and move forward they will be left in the dust.
Are our bookshelves going the way of the CD case and should we worry?
We’re not looking at an extinction here. Everything evolves, including the art of storytelling. Writers can either put themselves on or ahead of this evolutionary change or they can be left behind. There will never cease to be a market for storytelling, the only thing that changes is the medium through which the story is told.
Finally got my hands on a Nook
The bottom line here is that I was so upset by my use of the Nook that I decided I’m not getting my wife one for Christmas and I’m not getting myself one.