Poesian runokirjat ilmaiseksi

Uusi Poesia-kustantamo tarjoaa kaikki runokirjat ilmaiseksi netissä.
http://www.poesia.fi/

Uudet versiot kirjoista

Lulu.comin painatushinnat ovat alentuneet, joten oli sopiva aika tehdät uudet versiot vanhoista kirjoista. Sama sisältö, mutta tiukempi design ja halvempi hinta.

• Pyöreitä esineitä etsimässä 160 sivua, 7,95€
• Viihdettä Vierailijoille 312 sivua, 11,98€
• Kuoleman kuningas 222 sivua, 9,95€
• Elottomat kuvat 148 sivua, 6,95€

Alennukset muissakin teoksissa. Ja kaikki voi tietysti edelleen ladata myös ilmaiseksi.

That’s the torture of walking into a bookshop these days: it’s not that you think the books will all be terrible; it’s that you know they’ll all have a certain degree of competent workmanship, that most will have about three genuinely beautiful or interesting sentences and no really bad ones, that many will have at least one convincing, well-observed character, and that nearly all will be bound up in a story that you can’t bring yourself to care about. All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! Who, indeed, has time to read them?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

With the Death Star destroyed, Han and Luke get medals but Chewie doesn't. Actually, Leia offers him one but the wookiee turns it down. He got one of those things from Yoda about twenty years ago, but there's no way he can tell her that. http://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html

I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger

And so the Terminator, calling itself Conan once more, continued its long and lonely march through history. Having forgot that it was a machine, it lived as a man.
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/05/14/i-will-always-have-been-back-toward-a-grand-unified-theory-of-schwarzenegger/

Publishing Bingo

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/20/the-electronic-publishing-bingo-card/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shmuel510/5546944073/

'flipback' book

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/20/could-this-kill-kindle

Barry Eisler Walks Away From $500,000 Deal to Self-Pub

If you look at the current Top 100 bestsellers on Kindle, twenty-seven of them are self-published. Many of those authors were rejected by NY. Yet consumers are showing us what they want to read, and voting with their wallets.
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-and-self-publishing-dialog.html

Poetry Reference Tables

http://www2.rccsd.org/RKeim/KEIM_POETRY_REFERENCE_TABLES.pdf

The History Of Science Fiction

http://scimaps.org/submissions/7-digital_libraries/maps/thumbs/024_LG.jpg

5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck

Hollywood studios generally buy 10 times as many scripts as they make into movies, which means they currently own exclusive rights to a shitload of films that will never see production. And in most cases, they won't let anyone else have them. E.T., The Matrix, Pulp Fiction and Star Wars are all films that you never would have seen because the studios that owned them were content to sit on each forever. They were saved only because someone convinced another studio to re-buy them, usually at a higher price.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19012_5-hollywood-secrets-that-explain-why-so-many-movies-suck.html

Hollywood's conservatism: why no one wants to make a "risky" movie

In the last several years, a new rule of operation has taken over: The movie itself has to be the brand. And because a brand is, by definition, familiar, a brand is also, by definition, not original.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/02/hollywoods-conservat.html

The eBook User’s Bill of Rights

Every eBook user should have the following rights:

• the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations
• the right to access eBooks on any technological platform, including the hardware and software the user chooses
• the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright
• the right of the first-sale doctrine extended to digital content, allowing the eBook owner the right to retain, archive, share, and re-sell purchased eBooks

I believe in the free market of information and ideas.

I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can flourish when their works are readily available on the widest range of media. I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can thrive when readers are given the maximum amount of freedom to access, annotate, and share with other readers, helping this content find new audiences and markets. I believe that eBook purchasers should enjoy the rights of the first-sale doctrine because eBooks are part of the greater cultural cornerstone of literacy, education, and information access.

Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.

I am a reader. As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.

I am concerned about the future of access to literature and information in eBooks. I ask readers, authors, publishers, retailers, librarians, software developers, and device manufacturers to support these eBook users’ rights.

These rights are yours. Now it is your turn to take a stand. To help spread the word, copy this entire post, add your own comments, remix it, and distribute it to others. Blog it, Tweet it (#ebookrights), Facebook it, email it, and post it on a telephone pole.

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html