Yearly Archives: 2010
The Global Slush Pile
The internet is becoming a vast global slushpile, where writers can post their wares, and agents and publishers, and readers and buyers, can peruse them to the benefit of all. Continue reading
Is Free Downloading Theft or Copyright Infringement?
Ethics of free downloading e-books etc – a comment I made on a Nathan Bransford post called ‘A Matter of Ethics’ Continue reading
EU Police Carry on Tradition of Gestapo HQ
The irony of a new European dictatorship housing its State Police, who are immune from prosecution, in an old Gestapo Headquarters is not as funny as perhaps it might be. Continue reading
Pirate Party is the Shape of Things to Come
Discussion about the unelected UK minister Mandelson and his nasty Digital Economy Bill that can deny us access to the rest of the world on the mere accusation of a record company Continue reading
The Real Source of Self-Publishing Stigma
Zoe Winters provokes a stimulating discussion on just who most dislikes self-publishing, and why Continue reading