Recently finished Seth Godin”s book “The Purple Cow” which has a main premise that businesses should no longer do mass marketing to the big bulge that is the early and late majority but instead, focus on niche marketing to the much smaller but much more rabid early adopters group who are much more likely to […]
Google Lit Trips is a pretty cool site where users can submit their own mash-ups combining Google Earth files with the places visited in famous novels. Although it's aimed mostly at teachers looking to teach literature in a different way, this site can be enjoyed by any book lovers.(via MetaFilter)
Bookstore Bingo is apparently a new trend on Twitter where people post some of the silliest things they overhear at bookstores (and libraries?) HuffPost has collected some of the best ones.
A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble. I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! ). On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of […]
Most Anticipated Books of Summer & Fall 2010 What's A Great Book For Somebody Trying To Figure Out What To Do With Their Life?Please Recommend History/Science Books Similar to “Cosmos” or “Guns, Germs and Steel”Books That Will Induce A Mind Fuck
[Edit: It helps if I actually remember to put a link to the story I'm highlighting in the body of a post.]
How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it? I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]
Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read. It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women read because publishers only produce books targeted at women because those are the ones that have been the most successful in the past? This is probably true […]
I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading. You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few days later and you know it's a great one when you keep thinking of ways its lessons might apply in your everyday life beyond that. Very briefly, […]
Can you write a novel in 140 characters? I bet these folks could!
