Daily Links – March 26, 2009
How to Get Indies in on the iPhone Game. Indiebound app?
What Steven Johnson likes about the Kindle. Jokes aside, one-handed (and no-handed) reading really is a plus.
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How to Get Indies in on the iPhone Game. Indiebound app?
What Steven Johnson likes about the Kindle. Jokes aside, one-handed (and no-handed) reading really is a plus.
Author proposes in his latest book.. Pretty clever, if geeky.
Coolest. Bookmarks. Ever..
Junk in My Trunk and Craigslist Experiment. Love this Craigslist idea from William @ Hang Fire.
Women more avid readers of books than men survey says. From UK Telegraph.
Photos of Amazon Distribution Warehouse.
A web Companion to Under the Volcano. "A Hypertextual & Illustrated Companion to the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry." Very interesting.
Build a Bookshelf. Cheap bookshelf porn via Mother Earth News (via Reading Copy).
Ganging up Ikea shelves for a striking, cheapass wall-o-books. Awesome bookshelf porn.
Was this review helpful to you?. How Amazon’s simple question contributed significantly to their bottom line.
Top 10 books about bookselling. I think they missed a few (more on that later), but still a good list.
Blogging is the New Closure. David Jacobs on reading with the iPhone Kindle app: “I have one major complaint: I found the act of finishing the book unsatisfying; after paging through 4393 “locations” (the Kindle doesn’t [...]
Investment Books. In these confusing economic times, Marginal Revolutions recommends several investments books to turn to.
The Madness of the CPSIA and How Google and Amazon Might Benefit. Michael @ Book Patrol on the idiocy that is the CPSIA: “Who could possibly benefit from this ill-conceived law. Well, how about Google and Amazon for starters. Call [...]
To Be (Shakespeare) or Not To Be? Doubts about the newly-discovered portrait of The Bard.
Write Your Own Irish Memoir! Just in time for St. Patty’s Day. Bestseller list, here I come.
Tragic loss in PA – Humans fine, books and cats less so… A heads-up from buddy Lux Mentis about a fire at the shop of [...]
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s. William at Hang Fire Books has a great review of the new book about the romance between writers Patricia Highsmith and Marjorie Meaker. Looks like something to pick up.
Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace. OR: How to write like DFW in ten easy steps.
My dad wrote 1984…. George Orwell’s [...]
A queer idea of me: Poe regrets drunkenness. “Will you be so kind enough to put the best possible interpretation upon my behavior while in N-York? You must have conceived a queer idea of me – but the simple truth is that Wallace would insist upon the juleps, and I knew not what I was [...]