Interesting Links for 9-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• The 99c novel. I already know people buying these. I wonder where the market is heading
  (tags: books business amazon ebooks)
• Blackboards in Porn - just how accurate are they?
  (tags: porn sfw blackboard maths science)
• You can't have closure. I want to know if it makes you happier if you stop trying to get it.
  (tags: closure emotions life psychology)
• Fascinating piece on how we think can read each other's emotions, even when we can't
  (tags: emotions perception AmandaKnox)
• The Judge Dredd movie is having problems...
  (tags: JudgeDredd comics movies)

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

That 99c novel thing actually drastically skews the kindle best sellers. Honestly, browsing through "kindle best sellers" on a kindle for sci-fi or fantasy it is like wading through sewage. There's really pretty little I've heard of in the top 100... it's all "part 12 the vampirisimo chronicles" and the like... multi volume "epics". There are also a lot of completely free books on the market. A lot of people just want their stuff to be read -- look how much fan-fic is out there.

The problem is that the writer of the 99c novel piece assumes that the model is that people are trying to make money and they're doing it by writing. A lot of people simply like writing and if they make some money that's a bonus. All we're seeing is that becoming mainstream.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I quite often buy free/89p books for my Kindle. I also buy full price ones from established authors I like and enjoy reading(cough, Jilly Cooper, cough). The cheap/ free books approach has worked for me - If I buy it and enjoy it, i have a habit that when I finish one of my low cost purchases i jump into the store to see what else is available by the same author and frequently will buy a higher priced book if I enjoyed the cheap one. This is why my Kindle has a library of 100+ books on it waiting on me selecting the next one.

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

The closure thing. I've noticed this, for me it tends to be a series of small realisations that allow things to become slowly less important in my life, that they simply cease to cause the same level of pain when I think about them. How you deal with something, is just as important as the thing itself. And is more likely to affect you for longer.

Also why would you want things to back to how they were, if they did we'd never learn or evolve, which for was kind of the point.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I was thinking on the way to work about Kindles and children.

I think childrens' books might be in hard copy for longer than adult books.