If you can’t buy it, if you can’t see it, if you can’t experience it… It doesn’t matter how good it is. That’s what the authors are truly railing against in the Amazon/Hachette war, that their books have been relegated to second-class citizens. There’s a fiction being spread that content is king. That’s a complete […]

From: ROB T Subject: hi from rob thomas Re: Rhinofy-Matchbox Twenty Primer Dear Bob, I’ve always enjoyed reading your letters and your recent take on matchbox twenty (or 20) was no exception.  There were even some points in there that we, ourselves, have talked about from time to time. But there were also, as I’m […]

This is not about books. This is about corporations. And power. And the rights of not only artists, but individuals. There’s a fiction in America today that corporations are our friends. Amazon even pushes the paradigm by saying all its efforts are for us. Pitting writers against readers in a sideshow that deflects from the […]

INFORMATION OVERLOAD The twentieth century was all about scarcity, making it to the top and then dominating. Today there’s so much information that you feel inadequate. It’s an endless buffet that never closes where you find yourself unable to resist taking one more bite, yet still believe there’s something you don’t know. Distribution used to […]