Posted in The Auricle (www.auricle.org) by Derek Morrison, 25 June 2011, updated 28 and 29 June 2011 “Publishing may be in trouble but storytelling is not. Authors such as Amanda Hocking are understandably giving the industry the jitters. Hocking didn’t succeed in getting her young adult novels into print in the traditional way, so she […]
by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2011 “… do not use Twitter as an old-fashioned marketing tool. Because it isn’t. The old way of marketing is sending, the new way of marketing is about dialogues, personal conversations, and one-to-one advice.” (Pay With a Tweet is Spam, FutureBook, 20 June 2011) A message there for us all […]
by Derek Morrison, 11 February 2011 updated 15 Feburary 2011 So there you are! You are the proud owner of a still relatively expensive ebook reader whether than be from Amazon, Sony etc. The reader may be a bit of an indulgence but at least you are gaining on the pricing of the ebooks, right? […]
by Derek Morrison, 26 September 2010 I’ve been catching up on my podcast listening and came across this one from NPR’s Morning Edition titled Stanford Ushers in the Age of Bookless Libraries. A transcript is available but the story is still well worth a listen. With the increasing use of mobile devices, ebook readers, and […]
by Derek Morrison, 20 May 2010 Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. Today’s posting is an addition to my de facto segue on ebooks, words and techno-anxiety a topic I’ve addressed at […]
by Derek Morrison, 28 February 2010 Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. My apologies to the Coen brothers for the abuse of their No Country for Old Men. In this posting I […]
by Derek Morrison, 21 February 2010 (updated 24 February 2010) Any views expressed in this online essay are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individuals or organisations. In a fairly detached way I’ve been interested in the trajectory of the ebook concept and […]
by Derek Morrison, 28 January 2010 (updated 30 January and 4 February) I’ve got a serious ebooks posting in the works which I’ve been delaying until Apple launched what some in the geek community called the Messiah Machine or what we now know to be its official name iPad. That posting is for the future […]
by Derek Morrison, 9 January 2010 The BBC’s Radio 4 transmits the 10 minute programme A Point of View which they describe as “a weekly reflection on a topical issue”. The 8 January 2010 reflection was on ebooks and offered by Lisa Jardine under the title A Page Turning Passion. The transcript and MP3 download […]
by Derek Morrison, 3 January 2010 N.B. The following online essay represents the views of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In my posting Tensions are prelude to virtual space and e-publishing wars? (Auricle, 6 December 2009) I wasn’t convinced that the […]
