Today, a voracious and eclectic reader turns the page on one chapter of her life,…
Author: Brian O'Leary
My six-word memoir
Recently, GalleyCat and SMITH Magazine teamed up to hold a six-word memoir contest themed to…
A useful discussion
A couple of days ago, Joe Esposito posted a piece on Scholarly Kitchen, a discussion…
Tablets “vs” e-readers
At the end of last week, Nielsen published the results of its first-quarter tracking study…
One shot
To help keep dinner-party conversations lively, I read publications like Internet Retailer, whose e-mail feed…
Follow the …
On May 6, I am a guest on “Follow the Reader”, a weekly Twitter chat…
Department of “huh?”
Last year, I got cheesed (it happens) about the widespread publishing practice of not paying…
At 30 knots …
One of my favorite movies is The Hunt for Red October. The book, early Tom…
The cost of disruption
Over the weekend, eWeek.com posted an article that summarized a report from IHS iSuppli. The…
Another object lesson
Yesterday, I gave an example of the kind of skills publishers will need to buy,…