Paul Lima talks about (re)Discover the Joy of Creative Writing
(re)Discover the Joy of Creative Writing is available through Amazon and print and digital booksellers globally.
Future of Publishing
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future by Jason Epstein provides an interesting take on cultural implications of digital publishing in current issue of New York Review of Books.
More about Smashwords and Digital Rights Management
It’s been about a week since we uploaded our book list to Smashwords. It’s a decision I don’t regret. Sure there’s still raging debate in the publishing community regarding digital rights management. After reading a great deal about it I’ve come to the following conclusion: It doesn’t matter. What? Yep. It’s doesn’t matter. Digital rights management doesn’t matter. The reason I’ve come to that conclusion follows this path of logic. In print media, after a…
Five Rivers Books on Smashwords
After hearing news yesterday that Indigo’s Shortcovers had reached an agreement with Smashwords to receive feeds of the latter’s digital books, I went back and re-examined the whole digital rights management issue. It would seem the code-breakers win once again, in that despite all the encryption you can put on digital content, if someone really wants to pirate your work they can. And faced with the fact that you’re never going to stop this sort…