Amazon announced that on Christmas day it sold more Kindle ebooks than regular books (and that the Kindle is not the site’s most popular gift ever). Chadwick Matlin outlines at The Big Money the reasons why the Christmas day surge in ebook sales don’t matter. The New York Times suggests each new version of the Kindle may be getting worse, and separately dubs 2010 the “Year of the Tablet.”
Kindle Wins Christmas?
I Worry That I Don’t Have a Title Yet
"I worry that people in the city where the novel is based will take issue, all kinds of issue, with it. I worry that readers will be like who cares." Here are all the things you should be worried about while working on a novel, helpfully brought to light by Susannah Felts at The Literary Hub.
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Huxley’s Closes His Doors of Perception
Doors of Perception author Aldous Huxley requested a dose of LSD as he succumbed to laryngeal cancer in 1963. Three weeks later, Huxley’s widow, Laura Archera, wrote a letter describing the experience (“the most beautiful death”) to her brother-in-law. Today the prescription of psychedelic drugs to terminally ill patients is less uncommon than you might expect.
Japanese E-Book Aversion
It's hard to believe that a country with video games like this would be slow to adopt a new technology, but a recent survey indicates that Japanese people are not keen on e-books.
Of course they sold more ebooks on Christmas Day. If you got a Kindle for Christmas, you’d probably want to try it out, which means you’d download a few ebooks that day. No great rush to order a printed book on Christmas Day, since it would take a few days to arrive anyway.