Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help
Here's the pitch: it's a short story collection, and like my last two collections, it's a book of reprints from various magazines and other places. Like my other collections, it will be available for...
View ArticleWith a Little Help: Can You Hear Me Now?
I just flat-out love audiobooks. There's nothing like a story being read aloud to you as you go for a long walk or go for a drive. For years, I've been reading my short stories, articles, and even a...
View ArticleZen and the Art of Self-Publishing
I write these words on a Friday having just recently finished and sent off my next YA novel, Pirate Cinema, to all the agents, editors, friends, first readers, and fact-checkers who've been awaiting...
View ArticleWith A Little Help: Digital Lysenkoism
Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics....
View ArticlePublishing’s Virtue
Pity the poor antipiracy pitchman. Digital media means perfect copying, and most pirate goods are now of comparable quality to the official release, and often superior to the commercial alternative....
View ArticleDoubling Down on DRM
It’s hard to say what’s more shocking to me: the temerity of Hachette to attempt to dictate terms to its rivals on the use of anti-customer technology, or the evidence-free insistence that DRM has some...
View ArticleI Can't Let You Do That, Dave
In my new novel, Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother, I explore what happens to people when their computers don’t listen to them anymore.
View ArticleLost in Translation
People who pay attention to publishing and e-books may have heard the news that German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute (the birthplace of the MP3) recently unveiled a text-watermarking scheme...
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