Archive for category: E-books

‘Gawker: An Oral History’    (2015.08.16)

Brian Abrams has written a classic of the oral-history genre

Teaching editors structured markup    (2013.07.07)

Jeff Eaton wrote a CMS that forces the use of structured markup

‘Design Is a Job’    (2012.04.12)

A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor

‘The untold story of Kobo’    (2011.11.25)

Dan Morel has it wrong: Kobo’s business is selling defective merchandise

BookCamp Toronto 2011: ‘E-books are hard. Let’s go shopping’    (2011.08.21)

BookCamp Toronto 2011 was a liberal-feminist-consensus clusterfuck of mediocrity. But I’m calling their bluff and offering free training

Well, there’s your problem: You let a poet use a computer    (2011.03.29)

Craig Morgan Teicher remains a technical ignoramus. Hey, did you hear that poetry is hard to typeset in E-books?

Here are the two best articles on publishing of the Year of our Kindle MMXI    (2011.03.11)

Seth Godin, Happy Magic Fun Time, and Queer Cinema Classics doled out one at a time

Claire Berlinski pulls rug out    (2010.12.24)

Claire Berlinski demolishes not only the sanctimony of the entire exercise of best-book-of-the-year lists but the undead premise of the entire publishing industry

Magazine editor thinks like magazine editor    (2010.12.09)

Virginia Heffernan gets set straight by Graydon Carter. Oh, and the Ontario government flew her up here to give us advice last summer