Comparison of ebook and ibook prices.
Price of Amazon’s Top 100 Bestsellers. For the past couple of years, every now and then, I have checked the price of the top 100 selling ebooks on Amazon. Originally the top 100 included free ebooks, which quickly came to dominate the top 100, but about a year ago Amazon split the free ebooks […]
ipads and the writer
Last week I saw a post for a free writing course called Creative Writing, Learning from the Masters. The six featured writers included Norman Mailer. I quickly went to have a look at it on Apple’s iTunes U. I successfully downloaded the iBook of the course onto my computer but could not open it as […]
My Writing, The Life of Pi and The Hobbit
My last couple of posts were about my writing aspirations for this year and movies I planned to see because I had read the books. So here’s an update on how my writing and movie viewing is progressing. Writing After writing 50,264 words for National Novel Writing Month last November, I have decided to keep […]
My Writing Year in Review
My Writing Year in Review. Okay, I am into stats, so here’s a few writing numbers for 2012. · Last year I wrote, at least according to my daily word counts, 117,649 words, which is an average of 321 words a day. · I wrote on every day of the year, so my output on […]
2012’s Science Fiction in Review.
Science Fiction in 2012. Science fiction has not had a great year in television and movies. No Inception or Moon was released this year. No Torchwood made it on to the small screen and Doctor Who mainly sucked again. But the lack of quality on the big and small screen was more than made […]
Movies of Books.
Movies of Novels. I have read both the Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and The Hobbit, so I will toddle off to the picture theatre to see their films. When I read the Life of Pi I found the Sixth Sense like twist at the end threw me out of a great fantasy […]
How Many Books People Read Per Annum.
How Many Books Do People Read Per Year? While reading some 2012 research about the rise of e-reading I came across the following statistics: 78% of Americans aged over 16 years had read a book in the past year. Of those 78% they read on average 17 books (mean) or 8 books (median) in the […]
10 Aussie Books To Read Before You Die.
Last night I watched a recording of the first Tuesday Night Book Club’s “10 Aussie Books to Read Before you Die.” For much of this year the show’s website asked people to select their choice from a list of 50 Australian authored books. I voted a while back and I can’t remember if I went […]
The Rise of the Novella.
Novellas on the Rise A few days ago I read an article in the Age that boldly declared the novella was back, due to the advent of the ebook. Not the most insightful declaration because most writers would already be thinking about putting any novella they couldn’t find a publishing home for out as […]
Week Four and the End of National Novel Writing Month.
National Novel Writing Month It’s the last day of November and therefore the last day of my unofficial National Novel Writing Month. At the start of the month I planned to add 50,000 words to a manuscript I had been working on. Well I got to the 50,000 words yesterday. Yay me. So that is […]