ksawyerpaul, or K Sawyer Paul

Hey all,

Has everyone had a chance to check out our new front page, www.gredunzapress.com? We're beginning to really like it. But don't take it as us abandoning this part of the site. Far from it! We have lots and lots planned. What we are doing today is putting the focus of the site on the members themselves (that's you guys) by putting blog posts and photos front and center and moving the forum over to the left. Basically, everyone on the left is stuff from the main site (forum, twitter, and… Continue

Daniel Kaszor gets it right entirely as he reviews (and nails to the wall) The Lost Symbol:

The Da Vinci Code has sold an estimated 80 million copies in more than forty languages; critically, however, it is generally — though not universally — reviled (and if the critical response isn’t negative enough, you should spend some time on-line in book and writ… Continue

I've got a small problem with this article I just came across:

Clearly, literary fiction sells less than mass market popular fiction.

Now, I love books of all kinds. I have a lot of literary fiction, stacks of non fiction and many popular fiction novels (although those often get recycled through second-hand bookshops!)

I go to Writers Festivals, I have taken writing courses.… Continue

Today, Sony held the press conference to announce the two previously rumoured readers, plus a new one.

The first one is a no-brainer. It's $199, 5 inches, and built for portability and to do one thing extremely well: read novels.

The second one sort of suffers from middle-child syndrome: touch screen (which creates glare, which destroys the point of an ebook… Continue

Seems inevitable, and it's the only one on the market (not to mention the projected market) that is in any way open (epub!), accessible (sold in every country!), hackable (Soduko!) , and portable (ie, not a 10 inch tablet). Also, I look at my bookshelf and I just don't want another bookshelf. I'm kind of sick of killing trees, and the 300 Reader looks like the best version of the future any of these companies have come up with.