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Did you know that Del Ray is offering the first book (Betrayal) in the Star Wars “Legacy of the Force” series as a free download? I bought and read the entire New Jedi Order series, but daddyhood (and blogging, and running a publishing company) put a pinch on my reading time and I haven’t picked [...]

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Back in late March, a gentleman by the name of Jon Noring posted an opinion piece called Our “Publish Then Filter’”Future… in the ebook-community Yahoo group. In a nutshell, his point is that technology is taking us away from a traditional “filter then publish” model in which publishers act as quality-control gatekeepers to a “publish [...]

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 Major kudos to Sillybean, who brought to my attention that one of my favorite writers, Steven Brust, has posted a free Firefly novel online. You can get PDF or doc, with other formats promised in the near future. Consider this "celebrity fanfic". I can’t wait to start reading it. 
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Apparently The Golden Compass movie performed much more poorly in the opening weekend box office than was expected. I’d heard that there was a campaign to keep people away because it was anti-Catholic, but I didn’t pay much attention to it. After all, 1) I’m not Catholic, 2) we’ve heard the same kind of rhetoric [...]

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What with Thanksgiving and all, you may have missed the buzz over Amazon’s long-anticipated e-book device, the Kindle. I found a helpful review video I’ll embed below, but first here’s a quick list of pros and cons.
Pro:

Wireless access to Amazon.com via built-in cellular system essentially means you’re carrying around an entire bookstore, with access from [...]

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