Survey of the Price of the Top 100 Selling ibooks on March 2.
My last post analysed the prices of the top 100 selling ebooks on Amazon when I checked on the 2nd of March 2014. In the comments on that post I was made aware of some issues that might question the usefulness of the data I had collected. I will have more to say about that […]
Price Survey of the Top 100 Bestselling ebooks.
It’s time to have another look at the price of the 100 bestselling ebooks. And this time I have added GRAPHS. I have been surveying the price of ebooks every now and then for the past two years. Price of 100 Bestselling ebooks. On March 2 I checked the prices of the top 100 […]
Caged Without Walls – A Review of Anthony J. Langford’s Poetry Collection.
Caged without Walls is such an appropriate name for this collection of poetry. The poems invite the reader to escape from their fears. Anthony J Langford writes poems about people who have doubts, and who make mistakes and have regrets. They poems are for people who question their existence and want to achieve something rather […]
Sensory Book Vests
MIT engineers have created a sensory vest that allows readers to feel what a book’s protagonist is experiencing. The vest contains a heartbeat and shiver stimulator, a body compression system, temperature controls and sound. It has some of the elements I imagine virtual reality suits will eventually have. “Changes in the protagonist’s emotional or […]
Analysis of the science fiction novels listed in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013.
In my last post I analysed 13 science fiction books published in the US in January 2014. In this post I analyse the Goodreads Choice Awards for science fiction in 2013. I am interested to see what similarities there are between what is currently being published and what people are enjoying reading. To create the […]
Analysis of science fiction published in January 2014 in the US.
I was prompted to write this week’s post after I made a comment that a lot of the books published by one of the major science fiction publishers in the US seemed to be awful pulp fiction: full of mad scientists and buff alpha males saving damsels in distress. I was further prompted by an […]
2013 Top Ten Best Selling Books in Australia, the US and the UK.
I was curious how last year’s bestselling books compared between Australia, the US and the UK, so I had a look. Australia The top ten bestselling print books in Australia were: 1. Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney (228,400) 2. Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals, Jamie Oliver (173,800) 3. Inferno, Dan Brown (173,400) 4. […]
The Year of the Edit.
IT’S FINISHED!!!! Well at least the first draft of my epic science-fiction novel is finished. Last Thursday I wrote the final words of a first draft I started writing for in November 2011 for National Novel Writing Month. So it took me – rummages for calculator – 771 days to write 214,935 words, an […]
My Writing Year.
My Writing. I added 45880 words to my novel. I wrote 8 articles for Divine, of which 7 were published. Blog posts: 50 Number of days I wrote on: 365 I also enjoyed three days of the Melbourne Writers Festival. My Novel Writing. I started the year thinking I had a couple of chapters […]
2013’s Science-Fiction Books, Movies and Television.
Books Once again, I did not read many books this year, but the ones I read were nearly all very good science-fiction. As two books were from the same series, you would expect one of them to be my favourite book, and it was: Wool by Hugh Howey. This is the first time a self-published […]