Interesting news on POD outfit iUniverse from Publisher’s Weekly reporter Steve Zeitchik: Saying you were more than a subsidy publisher but not quite a traditional house always seemed to us like saying you were half pregnant. But iUniverse may soon prove that such unlikely feats are possible (the publishing, not the half-pregnancy). The Nebraska firm… Continue reading
CNET plans to adopt a pay-for-placement strategy to keep afloat. This from the excellent Dotcom Scooper Ben Silverman: Sources familiar with the situation say that unless a last minute snag occurs, CNet’s popular Download.com software portal is slated for an overhaul on Monday. The “new” Download.com would employ a pay-for-placement model, similar to one the… Continue reading
One silver lining of the Red Sox vanishing playoff hopes is the resurgence of knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. It’s also fun watching Derek Lowe win 20 games and Pedro almost certain to (in his next outing). Manny Ramirez meanwhile is in contention for his first batting title in spite of missing six weeks earlier in the… Continue reading
Andrew Sullivan gives the cadaverous Susan Sontag a beating in Salon. Reprinted on his web site here. While Sontag has endured the wrath of many moderates and conservatives for her tacit approval of what happened on September 11 and her general hatred for her own country; and while she and other leftists have sparked a… Continue reading
Observance for the day. Couldn’t put this better than Teresa Nielsen Hayden, consulting editor for New York-based Tor Books where she goes to work: Some of the stories getting told now are the ones people couldn’t bear to tell or to hear told last fall. They lodge in the mind. I’ll never be able to… Continue reading