Some Links of Bookish Interest (well, I thought they were interesting):
Of Agents:
- Why Don’t Agents Want to Play? Amazon Flies a Bunch to Seattle to Find Out
- Galleycat article on agents “Literary Agents, Bah! Who Needs Them?
- Who Needs an Agent? You Do: via Dystel + Goderich Literary Management
…and Librarians:
Of Amazon:
- Read Kindle on Your Computer
- Schools Shun Kindle Saying Blind Can’t Use It
- Amazon’s Encore to Release Three Books In February
…and BookExpo:
And a few miscellaneous links – just for fun:
- Glue has new widget tooltips + new privacy features
- Educators AND Publishers should PAY ATTENTION to digital
- How to find a book without knowing the title or author (via Josh Christie)
- BookPeople’s Literary Camps look awesome (via shelfawareness)
- The Prisoner – new miniseries complete w/ new graphic novel! (via Mike Cane)
- The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model
Overheard on Twitter this Week
Need to cut fingertip of my glove so I can use iPhone in cold weather… I wonder if some entrepreneur has created iPhone friendly glovesPosted by neelan on Wed Nov 11th at 8:56:20 AM
1) This is a gorgeous book and website 2) This is an interesting way to give your content away for free http://wefeelfine.org/book/Posted by mdash on Thu Nov 12th at 8:22:17 AM
I think I can safely generalise that all us authors are very very scared: http://tinyurl.com/yaca5c2Posted by alaindebotton on Tue Nov 10th at 1:40:27 PM
“Young adult services librarians” So many ways to parse that subject heading! Is it a headline?Posted by librarythingtim on Wed Nov 11th at 11:45:50 PM
Feeling a little emotional? Perhaps this 1954 McGraw Hill film , “Toward Emotional Maturity” might help. Hi-larious. http://bit.ly/CeDJrPosted by ABCKristen on Wed Nov 11th at 2:36:53 PM
At #pubwest in Tucson. They have orange trees here – with oranges on ‘em. More than my chilly Canadian brain can take.Posted by jmaxsfu on Thu Nov 12th at 8:14:57 AM
To aspiring writers who want a career: You need a literary agent. Not simply for the reasons you know, but more so for the ones you don’t.Posted by jasonpinter on Thu Nov 12th at 9:44:02 AM
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Happy Friday!!
~ Kat
