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Getting Even More Medieval
"Look, whatever you write, aim for the top, not the middle, whatever your genre or medium, whatever your personal idea of "top" is." Lou Anders isn't letting it lie.Conservative Comebacks
Appears to be right wing paranoia at it's best. The A-Z section is hilarious with all the "truths" I'm tempted to actually read the book, so I guess it is working.Locus Online: October 2006 Letters
" [Yet] More reader responses to Cory Doctorow's essay 'How Copyright Broke'..." And I thought hornet's nests went into hibernation in the autumnAs books go online, publishers run for cover
"Unlike record companies, which faced the double whammy of the iPod and illegal file sharing, the online market has given book publishers some breathing room." Hmmm. Via Grumpy Old Bookman.J. G. Ballard, The Psychologist
"Even the dreariest hack has to be on nodding terms with human psychology in order to pump out a half-decent airport novel. Few novelists, though, worship at psychology's altar with the vehemenceProgramming Designs | Community providing source code, tutorials, web design and software
Select from a wide variety of over 40 ebooks which provide information on languages such as Visual Basic, C++, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, and more. These ebooks are provided on our server for download.These fictions that sustain us
"We're aiming higher than that. I want it all; and by Christ, I may seldom, if ever attain it, but that's not going to stop me trying to be much more than just entertaining." Ian McDonald reGetting Medieveal on Reality's Ass
"Now, again, I'm not talking about War and Peace here [...] I'm talking about commercial entertainment and the attitude that says because a thing is popular it can't or shouldn't be good."Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
"Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scanGoogle Literacy Project
A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.Google Literacy Project
A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.Houston Community Newspapers Online - Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
"The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shFreeComputerBooks.com
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"Can videogames tell stories? Can they do it in their own way, or must they replicate existing media? If they do provide a unique slant on storytelling, does that open doors to new kinds of story
