1. Book Pricing Amazon blinked. In case you missed the story, over the weekend Macmillan drew a line in the sand.  No more devaluing our product, no more underselling to boost Kindle market share, we’re not going to let you sell electronic books for $9.99 upon date of hard cover publication. Oh YEAH?? Well, yeah.  […]

There was a space in my bookcase where I kept my cash, waiting for four bucks to accumulate…then I went and bought an album, which I played again and again until I knew every cut, until I accumulated enough money to buy another, when I repeated the process.  You see, music was scarce. Now it’s […]

From: Melanie HowardSubject: HE CALLED ME BABY Bob, I’d love to weigh in on HE CALLED ME BABY as my late, husband, Harlan Howard wrote the song.  Patsy did cut it in the early 60’s as a mournful ballad. It has also been cut by Waylon, Charlie Rich, and even Harlan Howard himself just to […]

Speaking of crowdsourcing… Someone forwarded me these tweets from Josh Groban: "I really don’t feel that charity performances should be subject to reviews in the same light as other performances…." "people give their time, energy and voices, for free and with little to no rehearsal and critics should put away the snot-o-meter." "just a thought. […]