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• Is The Net Good For Writers? [10 Zen Monkeys] - “Writing as a special talent became obsolete in the 19th century. The bottleneck was publishing.” Ignore Kindle, and read this fascinating survey of writers in the age of electronic communication.
• Bookglutton - Really fascinating, real-time book reading and commenting. Would be impressed with this in any document, but it has flaws. Not very web, but the connection is all there…
• Lipstick on a pig? ITAOS on Bookglutton - “includes some nifty functionality around contextual commenting and chatting within books. The drawback however is that it mimics the interface of a book and pretending to be a book on a computer screen sucks.” What Alex says, basically. Check his comments for some developer feedback.
• Amazon Kindle Hands-On and Questions Answered [Gizmodo] - Everything you are ever going to need to know.
• Technovia: Lots of Amazon Kindle detail emerging - reports round up - Time to let the tech blogs take over - take it away Ian.
• A Hole-y Grail at Andrew P. Mayer - Portal and new themes in game narrative. Again, looking for more stuff like this. Play Portal, by the way. I hadn’t played anything for ages and it took eight hours of my Saturday *like that*.
• Bezos has lofty ambitions for Kindle [CNET] - More Kindle. Jeff gives some background.
• Open Rights Group: Our first two years - ORG is a fantastic and important organisation. They need your support.
• Steam & the Digital Delivery of Computer Games - “Take2 admitted that retailers are doing everything they can to slow down digital distribution … “if you guys drop the price on your digital side, then we’re not going to be taking as many games, or ANY games, on the retail side”. The retailers right now are doing everything they can to keep their share of the pie.” Sound familiar?

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