gothamwriters: The Atlantic will sell short stories on Kindle: http://bit.ly/5te67G
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One of the featured authors will be:
… Ms. [Edna] O’Brien, one of Ireland’s best-known writers, the Kindle deal drags her into the 21st century. Ms. O’Brien, who writes all her novels, stories and plays longhand, then dictates them to a typist, said she had never even seen a Kindle.
She submitted her story “Shovel Kings,” about the lives of Irish workers who dug the tunnels for the London Underground, to her agent to see if she could get a traditional print deal. Instead, The Atlantic offered her the Kindle opportunity.
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As a Kindle owner I’m all for seeing as many types of literature available for Kindle as possible – but the publishing industry is never going to snap out of its funk if they don’t start working with modern writers. It seems that The Guardian for example is featuring a different author every week who doesn’t even know what a computer does. We need more people who know how to use today’s technology to create new style and form to excite and reengage the reading audience. That’s what we need.
On a slightly related note, one of the clicks on my blog today was “Kindle just a fad” – perhaps someone deciding whether or not the device is worth buying for Christmas. I’ve read critics who think that Kindle will go out of fashion as soon as Apple releases the much anticipated tablet computer. But you know – not everyone is going to want a tablet computer. Some people will be perfectly happy with a Kindle. And presuming that the tablet will be pretty much like the iPhone/iPod but bigger - that’s a highly desirable product and I know I will want one but that in no way invalidates the usefulness of a Kindle device. That would be like saying that people will only read a book printed on one kind of paper or bound in a certain manner.
The bottom line is that the ebook isn’t going anywhere. The look and navigational functions will be slightly different depending on the device that you use. For example my Kindle books look different on the Kindle device than they do on my Ipod Touch. On Kindle which has a matte screen they look like newspaper. On Ipod I have it set to sepia tone which mimicks the look of an older book but on the backdrop of a glossy screen. On Kindle you use buttons to navigate from page to page. On Ipod you use your finger to swipe with a moment that is sort of like what you’d do on print. However I use both interchangeably (and actual print as well) and have no intention of chucking one in favor of the other. So all that to say Kindle is just a device but electronic text – including ebooks is not a fad, but simply a part of life in the internet age.
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Filed under: Books, kindle, the atlantic
My point – fashion is nice but clothes don’t always make the man (or woman). And – speaking of the Simmons family fashion empire, I’m a new Baby Phat convert and love it.
. Ok just joking but they seem like one bath is the norm and for me that’s not really something I see working. Down here bathrooms in the plural are a given – high speed internet access, energy source (gas, electric, other??), and trash pickup (don’t take this for granted folks – you have to live in a locality that offers it and not every locality does) are the types of things we worry about. The idea of letting people have free run of my sacred home spa space on a regular basis is hard for me but I can cope with a compromise on a half bath. I don’t know how crazy this notion of mine is but all I can do is keep investigating using a website that isn’t craiglist since it is not a database with search features and therefore can’t tell me whether there is such a thing as a 2 bed/1.5-2 bath apartment in the Bk.
