Posts Tagged with ‘novels’

As a writer, I?m partial to inventions that have to do with those provocative things we call words. Obviously. So when I read a piece published very recently in Red Herring which spoke of a social network, or ?online community,? meant to bring authors among the likes of Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, James Patterson, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer (now deceased; his widow intends to soon establish a memorial page at the site) and their readers together using [...]

People are lazy. It's a universal truth that one new Web 2.0 app is trying to capitalize on.  LazyLibrary is a recently launched "web service" that promises to deliver books to online readers that are never longer than 200 pages. 
That's right, if a book is longer than 200 pages, it won't make it into LazyLibrary's searchable database. I appreciate the concept that people are too busy to read, but this site seems to promote limited literacy at best.  They [...]