New Kindle: Oasis

For those who missed the news, Amazon has just released Kindle Oasis, the company’s next big step towards its goal of digital paper. Its thinnest, lightest and most expensive e-reader yet has a new design with 9-week reading battery, ergonomic grip, and...

The Shortest Stories

I found in the Guardian a fascinating article: Readers in Grenoble can now nibble fiction instead of vending machine snacks, after publisher Short Édition introduced eight short-story dispensers around the French city. The free stories are available at the touch of a...

What’s wrong with the state of the book market?

Quick answer: nothing! And yet, not too long ago, everyone predicted that books were about to die. Now, they all seem to talk about what a great future books have: ebooks, physical books, publishers, what should be done, what is being done and generally,...

Time travellers: please don’t kill Hitler

A tongue-in-cheek article on the Guardian by Dean Burnett.  He makes a good point; so many people have dreamed of going back in time to kill Hitler, that it could serve as definite proof that a time machine is impossible to make (or Hitler would be surrounded at all...