Time to Get Ready!!!Do you have all your school clothes hemmed and hung up in the closet?
Have you bought a new lunchbox?
Do you have all your notebooks and the right color pens?
Summer’s over. This blog is fixed. Let’s get crankin’.
Another Way Around CensorshipI’ve been following the Sherry Jones story pretty closely – where Random House cancelled the title "Jewel of Medina", a novel about Muhammad’s wife Aisha, because of concerns that it might provoke terrorist reactions.
It struck me that a great tactic for Jones might now be to self-publish the book – it’s certainly gotten enough publicity to sell all on its own – and pocket all the proceeds rather than a royalty. She’d also retain all the rights to the book. She could even release it for free for a week for downloads, which would spur even more sales of the physical book.
She’d wind up with a better deal than she would have had if she’d gone the "traditional publishing" route. Perhaps, for a book that is not so traditional, that’s a great way to handle it.
The Ladies’ ClubSo I was at the nail salon recently, getting groomed for the week, and as the manicurist was snipping off a metric ton of dead cuticle from my fingers, I looked over and lo, the woman sitting next to me was reading…on a Kindle!
"Wow!" I said. "How do you like it?"
She gave me a look of beatific contentment. "I love it."
She mentioned her husband has one too.
As I watched her, it dawned on me how much greater the Kindle is at the salon – you can read WHILE you are getting your nails done, and because you just push a button instead of flipping a page, the risk to your nails is minimal. For those of us who begin to freak at any sign of incipient boredom, being able to read while getting a manicure is HUGE.
Of course, I bet Amazon didn’t exactly put solving the minor irritations of the urban female in their marketing plan for the Kindle.
But maybe they should’ve.
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