Collaborate Disseminate
In 1995 Bill Watterson walked away from “the madness that had consumed him for practically his entire adulthood,” writes the American Conservative.
Though everyone loved his Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, “I had virtually no life beyond the drawing… Continue reading On Bill Waterson’s Upcoming Book – And Why He Vanished
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Internet Archive and a group of leading book publishers told a Manhattan federal court on Friday that they have resolved aspects of their legal battle over the Archive’s digital lending of their sca… Continue reading Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case
Amazon removed several books believed to be written using AI and listed under a real author’s name. Decrypt reports: When professor Jane Friedman complained about books that she didn’t write being attributed to her on Monday, ecommerce giant Amazon ini… Continue reading Amazon Reverses Course On ‘Garbage Books’ Written By AI
Paramount said on Monday it had reached a deal to sell Simon and Schuster, one of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses in the United States, to the private-equity firm KKR, in a major changing of the guard in the books business. From a re… Continue reading Paramount Agrees To Sell Simon and Schuster To KKR
Recently science author Sam Kean reviewed In a Flight of Starlings, a “slender, uneven collection of essays by Giorgio Parisi about his life in physics, from his student days in Rome to the work that won him a share of the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics.”… Continue reading What Role Does Intuition Play in Science?
Cory Doctorow, author, digital rights advocate, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his next book, called The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation. “The book presents an array of policy solution… Continue reading Cory Doctorow’s New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game
By 1983 there were a whopping 2,000 pieces of software for Apple’s pre-Macintosh computer, the Apple II — more than for any other machine in the world. It turns out this left a trail for one historian to understand The Apple II Age: How the Compu… Continue reading New Book about ‘The Apple II Age’ Celebrates Early Software Developers – and Users
The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. The New York Times: Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, “Everything’s Fine,” would spark criticism:… Continue reading How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published
In this Help Net Security video interview, Thomas Roccia, Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft, discusses his new book – Visual Threat Intelligence. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: Threat intelligence fundamentals and method… Continue reading Introducing the book: Visual Threat Intelligence
A company called Sol Reader is working on a headset designed exclusively for reading books. “The device is simple: It slips over your eyes like a pair of glasses and blocks all distractions while reading,” reports TechCrunch. From the article: The $350… Continue reading Sol Reader Is a VR Headset Exclusively For Reading Books