I’ve been interviewed by Charles Tan of Bibliophile Stalker. He asks some cool questions, which allowed me to go into quite some detail about my personal background, my role at Tor.com, and Tor.com’s plans for world domination the future. My favourite bit, where I rant a bit about publishing, is below:
In your opinion, how is [...]
Via the Book Oven Blog, an nifty little French video by Editis:
I mostly agree with what I’m seeing here, and it gets me excited. Except for two things:
1) When they get to the museum and scan the art book into their reader. I call bullshit. Art books are objects you own. They go on your [...]
I usually go on and on about ebooks, and I do most of my reading on my iPhone these days, but I also love me some finely-crafted codices.
I learned of this British deluxe edition of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother by accident, almost—Voyager Books advertises on Tor.com, and I was mangling some newsletter copy related to [...]
I’ve been saying we’d see a proof-of-concept for a high-res, bendable OLED or similar display before 2009 was out, but I didn’t expect it to be announced this soon. I can totally see an e-reader being made out of this material:
Contrast – A Sony OLED VAIO Laptop Concept from Sony Insider on Vimeo.
The Contrast Vaio [...]
Salon.com’s got a nice post-game on the Publishocalypse that went down earlier this month in Jason Boog’s “Read it and weep.”
Who will survive publishing’s Ice Age? Undoubtedly, the companies that can command developments in the impending digital book revolution.
Well thanks, Captain Obvious. The word “book” in the phrase “digital book revolution” is unnecessary—the so-called digital [...]
It’s no secret that the Amazon Kindle has reinvigorated interest in dedicated ePaper-based reading devices (if not necessarily publishing industry profit margins, just yet). It’s also no secret that the Kindle is absolutely atrociously designed, and that its closest competitors, the Sony Reader and the iRex Iliad, are not much better (although aesthetically much more [...]
Over on Tor.com: Soon I Will Be Invincible
And on The New Sleekness: More hand-waving.
My inbox overfloweth with WIN today. Christopher Beaumont, one of the recipients of the Little Brother print I made (inspired by the eponymous book by one Cory Doctorow) created this kickass papercraft model of Camerahead, one of the characters in the print. He will be posting has posted a downloadable printout on his site, Cubeecraft.com, [...]
Solar, LED, leaf-shaped, bendy ‘invisible’ streetlights, designed by Jongoh Lee. I don’t know how well they’d stand up to the harsh elements, but in theory it’s a fantastic application, especially for places that are still off the grid.
Via Carey Tse’s twitter feed.
Is live (and has been for most of the day, I’ve just been…busy. You know, with the day job and all). Check out my review of the cover for Halting State by Charles Stross here, along with a whole bunch of really insightful comments from the Tor.com community. It’s been fantastic to have a place [...]