One question regarding this development: Do you think her wand has a slide-out keyboard, or is it a touch screen? NEW YORK (AP) -- The real J.K. Rowling has come to Twitter. Wanting to counter numerous fake Rowlings on Twitter,...
New York Times tech columnist David Pogue just asked (via Twitter): "What's the world coming to? Now we're reviewing not just books, but videos ABOUT books... :) See http://bit.ly/i9jxR." Yes, that would appear to be the case. But isn't that...
The American Booksellers Association's IndieBound program has come up with a way to take advantage of the wisdom and expertise found in an independent bookstore -- without the hassle of visiting an independent bookstore. Twitter users can Tweet a question...
I do not wish to anoint Dan Baum as The Publishing Guy Who Has This Internet Thing Figured Out. But I do think he's onto something. First, he wrote a terrific book, Nine Lives, about New Orleans before and after...
So since I first blogged about Dan Baum's serial Twittering of how he lost his New Yorker job, things have gotten really good. First, Baum's series started dishing about internal New Yorker culture, including his experiences with editor David Remnick....
I'm slowly warming up to Twitter. But it does have its limits. Take, for example, this fascinating feed from Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, one of the year's best books so far. The...
The Twitterverse and blogosphere boiled over yesterday with word that Amazon.com had classified gay and lesbian literature as "adult" and dropped it from sales rankings. Amazon's director of corporate communications, Patty Smith, explained "There was a glitch in our systems...
Galleycat posts a an amusing link to a Twitter feed agent Collen Lindsay set up to get agents' and editors' nominees for worst query letters they ever received. Among some of the more entertaining 140-character entries: "I'm considering changing my...
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