Aug
11
Crunching Books
August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
Finally someone innovates the e-book publishing platform – BiblioCrunch.com.
Aug
5
Our friend David Wilk over at Bootktrix (“Every trick in the book!”) has a new blog post up about the end of Borders Books. He has kindly allowed Livewires to repost the piece here. Thank you David! For more breaking news on publishing and books please visit the Booktrix blog and the Booktrix website (creative [...]
Jul
29
e-Life with e-Artifacts
July 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Even if it wasn’t inevitable, which it is, we are doing it: We are building a Digital Future. School libraries have been bulldozed to make way for computer labs. Is this good? Is this bad? Is this progress? Come to think of it, “digital” is an understatement. The new “books” are connected in every which [...]
Jul
20
All My Friends Have Gone The F*ck To Sleep.
July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In the snarky vein of Go The F*ck To Sleep, the book marketing sensation of recent internet meme fame, comes a new one: All My Friends Are Dead. It is zapping over the electron highway to a social network near you – and soon, very soon, probably to the bookshelves of at least half the [...]
Jul
11
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. Our question for the summer is… How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author (and friend) Erica-Lyn Huberty. Erica-Lynn lives and writes on Long Island, and is the author [...]
Jun
27
Every once in a while we here at Livewires pose a question to an author. This week’s question is: How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? We posed the question to author Josie Brown. Here is her answer: The distribution model for books — and who controls it — [...]
Jun
21
Exploding The Old Model: A Continuing Saga.
June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
So, how many of you have been emailed the pfd of GO THE F* TO SLEEP? It has been sent to me a handful of times. The book’s not on sale yet but it has been on the Amazon’s bestseller list all week. Piracy = book sales? How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book [...]
May
25
Your Canvas Can Be Anything.
May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment
There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Documentaries can be hidden inside illustrated mini-comics (Wendy MacNaughton’s Meanwhile), magazines can be enacted live on stage via the folks at Pop-Up Magazine: Stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio all presented on stage by well known artists (also, you can get drinks at [...]
May
4
One author complains that “Peddling my work like a Viagra salesman still feels at odds with the high calling of literature” – and yet even before the decline of publisher’s marketing departments and the upsurge of the self-promotion wizardry of social media (or is it more like an albatross?), authors were stuck holding the vile [...]
Apr
14
The Dance Between Dust and Gleam
April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Our best art forms remain real living expressions, having finally learned how to dance beautifully from stapled and dusty, to ones and zeros, and back again, effortlessly.