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 […]

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 […]

“4 Reasons Why Music Careers Are Getting Trounced By Tech”   From: mabeckerlaw Re: Hype I like Jenny Lewis… I really liked Rilo Kiley… but everything here rings true. Sometimes I feel like you’re railing at Niche players like her and my alt country fetish but really you’re just railing at people who try to […]

It’s not news, it’s an awareness campaign! I gave up reading the “Arts & Leisure” section. Because every article contained therein was linked to a product. There was no story, just a desire to make me know a new movie, play or record was coming out and I should buy it. Kind of like the […]