guest post by Hugh D’Andrade I’ve been attending the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair (and creating graphics for it) for at least five years now, and the thing I love about it is the sheer size and cacophony of the event. You step inside and find booth after booth full of books, pamphlets, an...

Is the typography on Shortcovers, a new e-book service, up to snuff? Joe Clark, in fawny , his Web log, says no. An example is Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow’s novel, which Joe describes as "written in free verse about marauding human lycanthropes." Joe complains of problems in both the pa...

We've always known I've had a big head, so this image on the cover of The Austin Chronicle SXSW 2009 edition , suits me quite nicely, no? The photographer, Sandy Carson , couldn't have put me more at ease. What a totally laid back, approachable guy. "I sure hope you can expense this glass of wine," ...

Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world’s largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today. I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 a.m. EST this morning and he told me that all the Fictionwise sites̵...

I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

I'm absolutely not against blog meetups, but for someone who's not against them, I have a funny way of showing it. Come this April, I'll have been in Austin for three years, yet I attended my first blogging event in Austin this past Saturday night. I remember the first "blogger bash" I att...

"Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like ‘epub,’ which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years." - Tim O’Reily in Why Kindle should be an open book, in Forbes. The TeleRead take: It’s hard to t...

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I don't know about you, but e-books will never personally hold a candle for me to the experience of unpacking a box of my books. There is a sense of pride and ownership and hard work rewarded, of happiness and joy and accomplishment I so rarely feel. There's this object that I created out of my own ...

Yes, it looks and sounds like a fun new game but it's actually quite a confusing landscape. And the image depicted here is a simplified version of starting points, formats, stores, readers, devices and their loose connections. I'm still catching up from last week's Tools of Change for Publishing con...