Announcing the Black Spring Crime Series on Alexandria
A Month of Great New Thrillers and Mysteries
Announcing the Black Spring Crime Series on Alexandria
A Month of Great New Thrillers and Mysteries
October in Alexandria
Autumn’s greetings! Melpomene here, messenger-CEO bringing you the news from Alexandria. First, an invitation Next week, Alexandria’s shared journal will open up on Plexus. You are all humbly invited to join us there! What is a shared journal? It’s a playground and a town bulletin board, where participants can write thoughts or share excerpts from things they’re reading and see related thoughts others have posted. We’re going to experiment in it with friends who resonate with the Alexandria d...
October in Alexandria
Autumn’s greetings! Melpomene here, messenger-CEO bringing you the news from Alexandria. First, an invitation Next week, Alexandria’s shared journal will open up on Plexus. You are all humbly invited to join us there! What is a shared journal? It’s a playground and a town bulletin board, where participants can write thoughts or share excerpts from things they’re reading and see related thoughts others have posted. We’re going to experiment in it with friends who resonate with the Alexandria d...
The BookTok generation
As social media and other digital forms of entertainment have skyrocketed in popularity over the last decade or so, the modern philosophers have theorized that the age of the book is over. “Books are dying! The kids don’t want to read anymore!” they say. However, over the last couple of years, a new player in the publishing world has emerged, one that combines social media virality and good fiction to create an unexpected, yet, in retrospect, inevitable explosion in popularity for books among...
The BookTok generation
As social media and other digital forms of entertainment have skyrocketed in popularity over the last decade or so, the modern philosophers have theorized that the age of the book is over. “Books are dying! The kids don’t want to read anymore!” they say. However, over the last couple of years, a new player in the publishing world has emerged, one that combines social media virality and good fiction to create an unexpected, yet, in retrospect, inevitable explosion in popularity for books among...
The Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger lawsuit highlights why centralized publishing hurts storytelling
This month, the book world is watching closely to see what happens when Penguin Random House, the world’s largest book publisher, attempts to acquire Simon & Schuster, the world’s fourth largest publisher, turning what is known as the Big Five publishers into the Big Four and making the PRH-S&S combo a disproportionately gigantic entity in comparison to its competitors. The DOJ v PRH trial concerns author rights; beyond its implications for governmental antitrust legislation, the outcome will...
The Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger lawsuit highlights why centralized publishing hurts storytelling
This month, the book world is watching closely to see what happens when Penguin Random House, the world’s largest book publisher, attempts to acquire Simon & Schuster, the world’s fourth largest publisher, turning what is known as the Big Five publishers into the Big Four and making the PRH-S&S combo a disproportionately gigantic entity in comparison to its competitors. The DOJ v PRH trial concerns author rights; beyond its implications for governmental antitrust legislation, the outcome will...
Camila Russo interview: How the Ethereum storyteller is decentralizing film funding
In a previous life, I was a film critic and grant writer and I learned how hard it can be to get a film funded. I saw the various ways of getting independent funding for filmmakers who didn’t already have huge box office success under their belts, often supported by larger organizations: campaigns specifically to support underrepresented filmmakers, compilations of emerging artists housed by streaming companies, arts funding from public institutions, crowdfunding from individuals and charitie...
Camila Russo interview: How the Ethereum storyteller is decentralizing film funding
In a previous life, I was a film critic and grant writer and I learned how hard it can be to get a film funded. I saw the various ways of getting independent funding for filmmakers who didn’t already have huge box office success under their belts, often supported by larger organizations: campaigns specifically to support underrepresented filmmakers, compilations of emerging artists housed by streaming companies, arts funding from public institutions, crowdfunding from individuals and charitie...
