Posts Tagged with ‘poetry’

Today I am pleased to be able to exclusively report on launch of a very interesting website - BookRix. The Munich-based company has been operating the German-language site in the .de domain zone for a while now and today they are making the debut of the English-language version. The German-language community seems to be a pretty active one to me so hopefully for the company this will be repeated in the English-language version as well.
The site’s owners describe it as [...]

For a long time bookseller Borders has been saddled with an affiliation to Amazon. Amazon has run its web site, leaving Borders to run its offline stores. This year Borders has been given back control of its web site by Amazon, and is in the process of developing a new site, currently in beta, that will launch in alpha on February 1st of this year.
This is Borders' chance to break the mold of Amazon and introduce Web 2.0 [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless 3G access will make it a hit; whether the experience is similar enough to the tried-and-true pulp-based paper equivalent to warrant the attention it?s so [...]