NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
News that Random House’s Vintage Digital imprint has published an eBook edition Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley prompted a couple of readers to enquire about plans for the rest of the series. Though the 1999 Matt Damon film probably made ‘Talented’ the most famous, there are five Tom Ripley books … [Read more...]
I’m always been wary of hype. I’m also wary of vague PR-speak which gets hyped by the media and played as fact. For this reason I’ve always been reluctant to subscribe to the commonly held view that Amazon’s Kindle is romping ahead in every market, winning an unassailable lead over its rivals. Let me be … [Read more...]
Some people have a tendency to overreact and sadly the internet then hugely amplifies the volume of that overreaction and gives it a credence it doesn’t deserve. Misunderstandings, hysteria and outright disinformation get repeated until they become inaccurate ‘truths’ that in turn get cited in defence of other … [Read more...]
After yesterday’s announcement, I popped along to the MAc App Store to grab myself a copy of Apple’s new eBook authoring tool, iBooks Author. A free download, the Mac-only package feels very similar to Pages, Apple’s word processor and has the same ‘hand-holding’ feel as its Garageband music/podacast tool. … [Read more...]
George Smiley, Jason Bourne, James Bond, Jack Ryan - authors and readers seem to love spies and covert agents, especially those whose adventures span multiple books. As a reader, the appeal of a book series is a world which grows with each instalment and a character who grows in stature and status as they complete … [Read more...]
