News and Links for September 21, 2009

[K Sawyer Paul]

It's our Editor's birthday! Happy Birthday Éisee! 

Just as we put up our third Audio Series and talked at length about the Philadelphia Library system closing, it gets saved. Lots and lots of letters of support is credited with keeping it going. 

The Kindle Store is cutting out free ebooks, thereby destroying the goodwill they created by taking away everyone's copy of 1984. 

Putting together your book in InDesign, and want to make an ebook copy from it? Here's the guide for you: Creating eBooks in InDesign

Richard Nash reviews the new book, The Late Age of Print, and has a lot of things to say about the state of the printed word. Here's a choice quote:

In the history of shop design, it is bookstores, strangely enough, that were the precursors of supermarkets. They, alone of all types of shop, made use of shelves that were not behind counters, with the goods arranged for casual browsing, and for what was not yet called self-service. Also, when brand name goods and their accompanying packages were non-existent or rare in the sale of food, books had covers that were designed at once to protect the contents and to entice the purchaser; they were proprietary products with identifiable authors and new titles.

Agent Honesty Is Overrated, just so you know.

Finally, Paul Graham gives us all lots to chew on in regards to pricing content in an era where we no longer charge for packaging: Post-Medium Publishing.