After seven and a half years at Amazon I’ve recently left. At Amazon, I purposely lived in the shadows because the rules around publicizing our work were stringent. But now I plan to think and write as much as possible to make up for the last 7 years of silence. […]
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When I first realized I had found a new career (2010) I wrote this article on becoming a localization project manager. I’d already been an LPM for 4 years without really realizing it was a profession. The LPM article is really about how to apply project management skills to the […]
This is the swan song for this blog. Every good thing comes to an end, and sadly this blog has reached that end. Due to conflicts of interest or perceived conflicts of interest since I took a job at Amazon I can no longer post on this subject. I will […]
A few examples of the coming shift in publishing can be seen swirling around two Ne(i)(a)ls. Neil Gaiman and Neal Stephenson are at the forefront of what I envision as the next step for authors in the ebook industry. Authors will take more control and profit from their own work, […]
[Note: I just published this yesterday and now I have to revise it! Apple has now made their play for a publishing platform. However a significant difference with Apple’s platform is that they have chosen to slant the platform to established published works by requiring a 13 digit ISBN number. […]
The Elements of Typographic Style is a masterpiece of a dying art. Robert Bringhurst is a man of content and form. He is both a poet and a typographer. And his is a seminal work on Typography. In my lifetime I have watched the desktop publishing revolution supplant 5 centuries […]
Text-to-speech(TTS) is one of the experimental features added to the Kindle 2 and it caused a huge controversy. In this post I will discuss the controversy and examine some of the more innovative players in text-to-speech technology. Upon the release of the Kindle 2 the Author’s guild protested to Amazon […]
The looming problem in ebook copyright may curtail the growth and longevity of this burgeoning industry. The problem seems to be developing in three areas that will only compound over the coming months as different e-readers and ebook retailers enter the market. The three main issues are copyright protection, proprietary […]