(Not to be confused with TwitterLit, who tweets the first lines of books “so you don’t have to.”) Almost a year ago, which is forever in Internet land, Brian Clark of Copyblogger held a Twitter Writing Contest in which he challenged writers to “compose a story in exactly 140 characters and post it on Twitter.” [...]
From BTB#88: Authors, Seize the Information! FiledbyAuthor co-founder Peter Clifton reminds authors, “Once information is posted on the Web, it is largely difficult to control. We wanted to put some of that control in the author’s hands, so that they could determine what they wanted readers, the media and others to know about them.” The new comprehensive online directory [...]
Filedbyauthor: Q&A with cofounders Peter Clifton and Mike Shatzkin by David Rothman, used under its Creative Commons license: Complete with listings for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, Filedbyauthor has started up with 1.8 million name-related pages waiting to be claimed. So far the most viewed writers are Stephanie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, former PW editor [...]
Samsung has announced that its e-book reader, the Papyrus, will be launched this June. The release will happen first in Korea, then later in the U.S. and Britain. The company is reportedly trying to keep the price at $300 to compete with the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader. Fujitsu will launch its FLEPIA device a [...]
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