If an otherwise good author may find it difficult to publish, but has something interesting to contribute to the conversation of his or her community, then by all means, put the idea out there and let it stand or fall based on its merits.
What we used to call books are no longer the bricks that once sat next to our sofas but an accumulation of short messages we permanently carry around on our mobile devices.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Today's powerful platforms disintermediate established powers-that-be.
As the Department of Justice faces off with the major publishers and Apple, I want to offer up a simple statement that likely contradicts what most readers believe: Making e-books is harder than it looks.
JustAnswer.com is an interesting site on which you can get important and timely answers to your questions. Questions about your mother's, daughter's or family pet's health; a crucial legal question; or one of life's more serious tribulations.
Today the USPS is anything but thriving -- and this is hardly surprsing. Founded in 1775, its "business model" is pretty much the same as it was more than 200 years ago. And that needs to change.
I'm still trying to figure out how electronic bookstores are going to replace this past time. I don't know that they can.
Some have argued that Facebook was overhyped, hence the reason for its current stock troubles. I've often been asked if the Cloud is heading down the same path, and whether we think Cloud technology is overhyped; however, the power the Cloud brings to our daily life is actually quite understated.
The app store contest is both a marathon and a sprint. Today's race is just the latest lap around the "software store" track. My advice to the digital consumer is to play the field, don't bet on a single runner, enjoy the spectacle and always download wisely.
A parrot as tall as a four story house, a serpent big enough to swallow an SUV and a pink half man-half dolphin hover in the air. Sounds like a world out of Hieronymus Bosch.
(**Or, "How My E-book Rose to Number Two at Amazon Kindle, and Found Its Way Into the Hands of 33,703 People in Three Days") I've spent the last 15 m...
Construction of an oil pipeline running for approximately 207 kilometers through one of the most remote, biodiverse parts of the Peruvian Amazon has been delayed.
May 2012 marks the twentieth birthday of Brazil's Yanomami Park. It's the largest area of protected rainforest in the world -- it's also the best reply to critics who say that efforts to protect tribal peoples are futile.
For all the talk about 'monetization' -- the actual business of media often gets shorted on the industry conference circuit.
At today's Amazon shareholder meeting in Seattle the company announced that it is dropping support for ALEC, while fudging questions about its taxes and voting down proposals to report its efforts to address climate change and to disclose its political spending.
As long as bookstores exist, people will keep buying books because the person next to them puts it in their hands. Literally.