The Fifth Imperium’s Baen CD repository has posted another CD. This one is bound into the release of the Mercedes Lackey superhero “braided world” book Invasion: The Secret World, an outgrowth of a podcast audiobook project inspired by playing and writing fanfic about the MMO City of Heroes. As with past CDs, the contents are DRM-free and free to distribute non-commercially. More than any other Baen CD, this one has personal meaning for me. I was playing City of Heroes at the same time and in the same role-playing/writing guild as Misty and all our friends, many of...

We had a great show today on The Biblio File, marred only by a minor technical malfunction in the middle. I was joined by Paula Berinstein of The Writing Show (as well as a number of listeners in the text chat) and we talked for over an hour about Ficbot’s and my posts, the Amazon/Macmillan situation in general, and related matters. The 30-megabyte mp3 file can be downloaded here (right-click and choose “save as”), or streamed from the show’s homepage. At some point it will be available in the  iTunes podcast section as well. Items we...

This Saturday, I have decided to host a live, call-in podcast talkshow on my book-related podcast The Biblio File, Saturday February 6th at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific (and 9 p.m. UK) time. The podcast will be devoted to a discussion of this week’s Amazon/Macmillan feud. I have invited several guests, but I do not know whether any of them will desire or be able to attend, so I’m prepared to discuss my own point of view with all comers if it comes down to that. I will welcome as many different viewpoints as possible, but...

Smashwords has worked out an affiliate relationship with Wordclay, a print on demand company, to encourage writers to appear on paper as well as in ePub and other electronic formats. Mark Coker briefly discussed this during an audio interview with TeleRead Co-Editor Paul Biba during Tools of Change. "Authors should publish in print," Mark said---since e-book revenues are just a fraction of those from paper books. Electronically, Smashwords books are available not only directly but also through new arrangements under which you can download them within the Stanza program for the iPhone. In the interview...

Anton Wierenga sent me an email describing his new service. Here's what he says I have recently launched www.offlinereading.com, a website where you can find RSS feeds for many free PDF newspapers and magazines that can be found on the internet. You can use these feeds in iTunes to automatically download the newspapers to your PC. According to their FAQ: Q: What can I do with OfflineReading.com? With OfflineReading.com you can search, download and subscribe to newspapers or magazines which can be viewed in their orginal (printed) layout. Q: How do I subscribe to newspaper or magazines? Newspapers and magazines are distributed using RSS...