Collaborate Disseminate
The U.S. publishing industry is driven by celebrity authors and repeat bestsellers, according to testimony from a blocked merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Only 50 authors sell over 500,000 copies annually, with 96% of books… Continue reading No One Buys Books Any More
Microsoft Edge is the default web browser and PDF reader in Windows 11, and a modern and capable successor to the Internet Explorer browser of yesteryear. It’s built on the same Chromium web platform that Google uses for Chrome, and it integrates more … Continue reading Set Up Microsoft Edge Correctly … Whether You Use It Or Not
Like any couple, my wife and I have had our disagreements, but it’s notable—and maybe mostly luck—that we’ve had few major fights over the years, certainly nothing that either of us later regretted. And though we have real problems like anyone else, un… Continue reading Rewatchable (Premium)
In this Help Net Security video round-up, authors discuss their cybersecurity books and provide an inside look at each title. Complete videos George Finney, CSO at Southern Methodist University, talks about his book – “Project Zero Trust: A Story about… Continue reading Expand your library with these cybersecurity books
An anonymous reader writes: More books were called to be banned in 2023 across US schools and libraries than any other year on record, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA). Building on a surge that started in 2021, some… Continue reading More Books Than Ever Targeted For Bans
I spoke recently with Tony Redmond, a long-time friend and the primary author of the highly recommended Office 365 for IT Pros: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft’s Cloud Office System, which he self-publishes using Gumroad. I had been wanting … Continue reading On Writing: Windows, Eternal Spring, and Books (Premium)
The Baffler says a new publishing house launched earlier this month “brings Silicon Valley-style startup disruption to the business of books.”
Authors Equity has “a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network of freelancers,” and like a handfu… Continue reading Has ‘Silicon Valley-style Startup Disruption’ Arrived for Book Publishing?
Jennifer Ouellette reports via Ars Technica: Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which was preserved and cataloged upon his death in 1882. But many other items were lost, including… Continue reading Darwin Online Has Virtually Reassembled the Naturalist’s Personal Library
The paperback version of A Hacker’s Mind has just been published. It’s the same book, only a cheaper format.
But—and this is the real reason I am posting this—Amazon has significantly discounted the hardcover to $15 to get rid o… Continue reading A Hacker’s Mind is Out in Paperback
Molly White—of “Web3 is Going Just Great” fame—reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own:
In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale. The closest he ever comes is when he speaks of how “for decades, technologists have dreamed of building a grassroots internet access provider”. He describes one project that “got further than anyone else”: Helium. He’s right, as long as you ignore the fact that Helium was providing LoRaWAN, not Internet, that by the time he was writing his book Helium hotspots had long since passed the phase where they might generate even enough tokens for their operators to merely break even, and that the network was pulling in somewhere around $1,150 in usage fees a month despite the company being valued at $1.2 billion. Oh, and that the company had widely lied to the public about its supposed big-name clients, and that its executives have been accused of hoarding the project’s token to enrich themselves. But hey, a16z sunk millions into Helium (a fact Dixon never mentions), so might as well try to drum up some new interest!…