John Dishon's Blog – April 2009 Archive (5)

Man Writes Bestselling Novel on His Cellphone

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/04/22/2009-04-22_train_of_thought_bklyn_writer_found_muse__wrote_first_novel_while_commuting_on_t.html

Here's a link to the book on Amazon:… Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 30, 2009 at 4:13am — 1 Comment

Amazon Consolidates Its Power, Acquires Stanza Digital Reader App For iPhone

From Galley Cat: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/breaking_amazoncom_inc_acquires_stanza_digital_reader_app_115103.asp

Added by John Dishon on April 29, 2009 at 7:47am — 5 Comments

All of Fiction Costs $125 Million

http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=308&mode=one

My favorite parts of the article:

"As we all know, Google recently bought all out-of-print fiction from the "Author's Guild" for $125 million dollars. This laughable, ludicrously small price is the kind of price that somebody would only offer for something that they didn't actually own.

You know, like Napoleon selling Louisiana to America in… Continue

Added by John Dishon on April 29, 2009 at 3:14am — 5 Comments