The Entroporium

In an earlier post, I went into detail on the problems with the Kindle’s magazine store.  In spending a little more time in the books section, easily solved problems are present there as well.   It’s so compulsively simple and fun to buy books in the store that this represents a massive opportunity.  I’d say conservatively that [...]

Several weeks after casting my dutiful homer “Vote For Pablo” to make the NL All-Star Team, I received an E-mail invitation from Major League Baseball inviting me to subscribe to MLB Insiders Club.  Baseball has always had backwards-looking marketing overly reliant on its heritage, but debuting a dubiously Official Magazine in the era of social networking and [...]

I’m trekking along with the Infinite Summer group that has dedicated this summer of The Year Of The Depend Adult Undergarment (also known as Y.D.A.U. or 2009) to reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.  At over 1,000 pages and hundreds of characters, footnotes and plot-strands, it’s an intimidating doorstop tome, but a lot more fun than I [...]

Yesterday The New York Times reported on book publishers’ discomfort with releasing books simultaneously as E-books and through traditional channels.  One idea, not supported universally, is to release E-books later than hardcover editions in the same manner that paperbacks are held back for at least a year.  The reason proffered is to preserve the initial $20-35 [...]

First in a series of posts about adapting to life with a Kindle 2 One of the things I most looked forward to in my Kindle was the magazine store.� For a fraction of the cover price in most cases, the full text of a magazine is quickly and seamlessly downloaded to your Kindle.� If [...]

One last mention of Walter before we return you to our usual pontifications on media, music and so forth. After four weeks of having him here, I conceded that I was not going to be able to find him a home on my own and enlisted the help of San Rafael’s Milo Foundation. After a [...]