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Amazon and Macmillan
So far, the best comment I've read on the current war between Amazon and Macmillan, which has caused a lot of books people would be buying and reading to disappear from the Amazon shelves, is this one by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing. He points out how ridiculous both sides look -- both Amazon masquerading [...]
Publishing on the web
I've been sending a lot of email lately to people who transcribe music the way I do and are wondering whether and how to put it on the web. Putting other people's transcriptions on my site is addressed briefly in the SerpentPublications.org FAQ, but of course there are lots more details than a two paragraph [...]
The Elizabethans were doing ASCII sorting
One of the oddities of Elizabethan publishing, which I have retained in my transcriptions of Elizabethan music, is that they write roman numerals differently from the way your clock does. Specifically, your clock writes "4" as "IV", that is, one subtracted from 5. The Elizabethans didn't do that -- they wrote "IIII", and similarly "VIIII" [...]
Disclosure
Last October, there was a ruling from the FTC that proposed hefty fines for bloggers who fail to disclose "compensation" for their reviews. It's described in indignant detail on the Teleread blog. I've been ignoring that ruling. It certainly doesn't apply directly to me. I'm not organized enough to ask for free copies of the [...]
We are a Schwerpunkt
A couple of days ago, I added the Counterize II wordpress plugin to this blog, so I've been wasting time looking at all the information they pull out of the logs for me. It turns out that one of the top sources of referrals is a site called notenseiten.de, which says: * laymusic.org Von Laura [...]
Three Quarters Done, and Happy Thanksgiving
Yesterday was the three quarter mark on this year of blogging every day. I've been meditating on how I'll blog when I don't have to do it every day. There will be fewer junk posts because it's almost lunch time and I have to write something. There will also be no posts at all on [...]
Agent to the Stars, by John Scalzi
I was reminded that I hadn't told you about Agent to the Stars, which I read a few weeks ago, when I read John Scalzi's blog entry this morning. The blog says that if you're going to self-publish, please don't pay anyone to do it. You can get it online for free, and if you [...]
Julie and Julia (the book)
So far I've only read the book; I'll probably tell you more when the movie comes out on DVD and I see it next month or so. I enjoyed it. When I realized how big a pain reading the PDF from the library was, I decided that if it wasn't finished by the time it [...]
Borrowed another ebook
This one's even worse than the first one from a usability standpoint. The problem is that this one's a PDF file, but instead of reading it with one of the many excellent PDF readers in the world (including Adobe's), I still have to read it with Adobe Digital Editions. Adobe Digital Editions, instead of having [...]
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