m. c. de marco

I found my way from Dean Wesley Smith’s twitter feed to L. M. May’s posts on learned helplessness and Barry Eisler going indie. I read Barry Eisler’s long two part dialogue with Joe Konrath about self-publishing.

Paramourtal is up for sale in Kindle format and many more at Smashwords, thanks to the ceaseless efforts of editor Kevin Hosey.

The Kindle version of Paramourtal is now up at Amazon, along with the trade paperback:

Via io9: in a stunning fit of irony, Amazon secretly deleted all copies of 1984 from all Kindles.

An uproar followed, with outraged customers pointing out the irony that Amazon was deleting copies of a novel about a fascist media state that constantly alters history by changing digital records of what has happened.

Via Suvudu: the Suvudu Free Library boasts five free sf/f titles from Random House in PDF and various other formats.

Via a mailing list: The Sony Reader is due out this spring. At 5” x 7” it’s almost as small as a paperback and uses print-like E Ink technology.

But considering the proprietary book format (Sony’s BBeB) and the fact that the Sony Connect store requires Internet Explorer—not the browser of choice for early adopters—the Sony Reader may not be the next iPod after all.

The New York Times has an article on the rising popularity of ebooks, especially among cell-phone readers. Thanks to sf-f.org for the link.