Jack Vancea e-kirjoina

Jack Vancen e-kirjat ovat nyt virallisesti saatavilla, ja DRM-vapaasti totta kai.
http://www.jackvance.com/

Nanowrimo 2011

Kirjankirjoituskuukausi on taas alkanut.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.h
tml?_r=1

Rome Sweet Rome

Redditin kommentista elokuvaksi. Mitä jos nykyinen USA:n armeijan pataljoona matkustaisi ajassa taaksepäin Rooman valtakuntaan?
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_destroy_the_entire_roman_empire_during/

Warner Brothers to film Rome Sweet Rome movie

Japanissa on jo tehty Sengoku Jieitai 1549, joka kertoo Sengoku-kaudelle päätyvästä modernista armeijayksiköstä, mutta siitä on varaa parantaa.

S.M. Stirlingin Nantucket-sarjassa puolestaan Nantucketin saari siirtyy pronssikaudelle.

The Lean Publishing Manifesto

http://leanpub.com/manifesto

Cory Doctorow: Why Should Anyone Care?

But the reality of books was this: a publisher’s rep would come in and tell us breathlessly about the lead titles – how much promotion they were up for, how much the house believed in the title, how well the author had done before. We’d order a pile of hardcovers, generally a smaller pile than we’d been asked to take, and usually, they’d sell modestly well. Then we’d return the leftovers, and some months later, they’d resurface as remainders, with their dustjackets clipped or magic-markered lines drawn on their page-edges. Then they’d come in as paperbacks, hang around for a few months longer, and vanish. Sometimes, a copy or two would surface as used trade-ins, and sometimes a regular would ask us to order a copy, but within a short time, the book would no longer be in the publisher’s catalog in any form. It would be gone. -- Here’s the thing: I’ve just described the best-promoted books in the field, the ones with the biggest push.
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/09/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu 1.9.11.

Eeppistä post-apokalyptistä invaasiofantasiaa animetroopeilla kuorrutettuna.

X Meets Y -tiivistelmä: Return to Nevèrÿon meets Nemesis the Warlock.

Pod-kirjat 11,99€/kpl ja e-kirjat 1,99€/kpl (helppo muistaa).

Kirja yksi (373 sivua)
Kirja kaksi (333 sivua)
Kirja kolme (374 sivua)

Aiemmat e-kirjani ovat olleet ilmaisia, kokeilen tällä kertaa pientä hintalappua myös niiden kohdalla.

EDIT: Tilaa ennen 9.9. ja käytä koodia SEPTEMBER, saat 20% alennuksen.

Tim Kress: Early Mourning

Ilmainen e-kirja: http://diads.net/tkfbooks.htm

Musiikkivideoita ja ennustuksia

Ennustin eilen Oulun musiikkivideofestareilla, että Olavi Uusivirran video on juuri sellainen tyypillinen tuomariston voittajavalinta. Tänään luin uutisista, että ennustukseni kävi toteen.

Omat suosikkivideoni tänä vuonna olivat Femme en Fourrure - Bronco, Ukkosmaine - Salamaponi, Kotiteollisuus - Raskaat veet ja Medeia - Abandon All.

Alkuvuonna tein myös ennustuksen, että Teoksen scifi- ja fantasiakirjakilpailun voittaa joko "huolestuttava visio ekokatastrofista" tai "koskettava kuvaus teinivampyyristä". Tässäkin ennustukseni osuivat varsin lähelle.

(Lisättäköön, että ennustettavuus ei tietenkään kerro mitään teosten laadusta, ainoastaan aiheiden tai toteutuksen ennalta-arvattavuudesta.)

The 10 awful truths about book publishing

http://outthinkgroup.com/the-10-awful-truths-about-book-publishing

One-book shop

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/09/author-one-book-shop-martian-summer

Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing

Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc’s publishing foray.
Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle books a day without writing a word.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/social-networking/spam-clogging-amazons-kindle-self-publishing/article2063929/singlepage/#articlecontent

Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers

substitute the phrase "science fiction" for the word "detective", delete the 1930s murder-mystery novel clichés and insert some 30s science fiction clichés and I get the impression this scenario has indeed played out, and not just once but several times, and the agent/editor has – bizarrely – entirely shared the enthusiasm of their author, so that, a year or two later, yet another science fiction novel which isn't really a science fiction novel – but, like, sort of is at the same time? – hits the shelves, usually to decent and only slightly sniffy reviews (sometimes, to be fair, to quite excitable reviews) while, off-stage, barely heard, howls of laughter and derision issue from the science fiction community.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/13/iain-banks-science-fiction-genre

The secret life of libraries

"If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they'd be considered insane," says Peter Collins, library services manager in Worksop. "If you said you were going to take a little bit of money from every taxpayer, buy a whole load of books and music and games, stick them on a shelf and tell everyone, 'These are yours to borrow and all you've got to do is bring them back,' they'd be laughed out of government."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/01/the-secret-life-of-libraries

How Writers Build the Brand

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/how-writers-build-the-brand.html?_r=2&src=twr

Strange books lists

http://www.cartania.com/strangebooks.html
http://www.cartania.com/strangerbooks.html
http://www.aquiziam.com/five-strange-books.html

Awful Library Books

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

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